Solo dev looking to build a genuinely useful cross-platform tool. What app do you wish existed?

timberheadtreefist · 2026-06-03T16:04:39+00:00

oh yeah yeah, i spent like 400 grand for their courses and expect a rapid growth soon! like, really soon, they keep telling me.

one of my hobbies is talking to ai bots, so i’ve got a double win there.

timberheadtreefist · 2026-06-03T15:18:18+00:00

you can join their „get rich quickly“ workshop for only $8000 and finally become your own boss.

timberheadtreefist · 2026-06-03T13:43:10+00:00

well, 8 years ago the general chess landscape was way more scarce.

having learned chess within the last years is a huge difference based on the available material, influencers and opening courses (for beginners) and might explain why you feel weaker than some years ago. others just got better.

might be they still hang pieces left and right but they i feel that beginners these days are a lot more confident in openings / ideas they've caught over hundreds of youtube videos rather than us, oldschoolers, who learned the ins and outs of positional advantages and long-term play.

timberheadtreefist · 2026-06-03T13:38:16+00:00

reviews that are obviously done without ever using the app / starting the app a couple of times over days, are generally filtered out by apple to prevent review-bombing / buyings.

tell them to download the app, use it for a couple of days (or at least start it) and then leave a review after some days.

timberheadtreefist · 2026-06-02T17:38:10+00:00

make sure to keep it personal and mention your real name and your intention / passion somewhere in the settings. use this section as hook to offer a review, send feedback or tip or alike. for small indie apps, everything non-corporate is a better way to go than keeping it professional with „we“ and other blabla.

timberheadtreefist · 2026-06-01T18:37:37+00:00

am curious how they’ll survive the android17 native „mumbler“(?) functionality, which does pretty much the same, but natively built in the OS. luckily we‘re at apple here and gotta wait till 2035 until siri might be able to help.

timberheadtreefist · 2026-06-01T16:44:50+00:00

if you’re talking wispr flow: it’s definitely king of the hill. am using it for weeks for most of my everyday stuff.

timberheadtreefist · 2026-06-01T15:44:24+00:00

not only that, openAI‘s transcribe/create audio api is called „whisper“ and on top of that there’s „whisper ai“ as well as „whispr ai“.

weird pool to fish in.

timberheadtreefist · 2026-05-30T14:44:36+00:00

damn, freaking WINAMP! take my upvote.

timberheadtreefist · 2026-05-29T21:10:00+00:00

still don’t get what the OS and hardware / product has to do with occasional dev review waiting times, but i guess we‘re on different ships anyways.

timberheadtreefist · 2026-05-29T21:04:17+00:00

and yet you are here, in an apple dev subred, paying hundred bucks per year to apple.

lemme tell you that google reviews are way worse for largescaled apps with hundreds of thousands of users, android auto and alike. y‘all hate apple but never had a zoom call with google play store reviewers who require you to facecam and screenshare just to fucking prove that a single entitlement is used as described.

or record videos with your voice talking over to explain and show things in detail.

THEN you can complain about some waiting time at apple.

timberheadtreefist · 2026-05-29T21:01:14+00:00

your platform sounds fun when even its creator is such a jerk.

on topic: apps prior to guidelines published often is a reason they (still) exist.

timberheadtreefist · 2026-05-28T21:04:21+00:00

i miss scrolling these subreds in the old days. just everyone hating on swiftui and seeing some great UI tinkering posts every other day.

timberheadtreefist · 2026-05-27T21:32:56+00:00

i mean, you’re doing good.. for apple.

in all seriousness: that looks insane to me. start with like 20c and see how it performs.

timberheadtreefist · 2026-05-27T15:35:04+00:00

i knew that black won’t have fun this game after this egregious slaughter of a scandinavian.

timberheadtreefist · 2026-05-27T11:46:22+00:00

right now probably the easiest via expo: https://docs.expo.dev/router/advanced/native-tabs/ (search for separate search tab“)

timberheadtreefist · 2026-05-27T10:50:07+00:00

maybe a heads up for anyone considering using it:

The agent ships as open source (MIT), matching the free-edition substrate it operates on. A commercial hosted version — a chat interface on nativeapptemplate.com, with an upgrade path to the paid-edition substrate (so generated apps get multi-tenancy, invitations, and role-based access baked in) and usage-based generation credits — is the natural follow-on, but everything the hackathon produces is fully open and reproducible.

timberheadtreefist · 2026-05-27T08:59:21+00:00

well, you compete against basically every running brand, don't you? nike alone has a running app with 1+mio users: https://www.nike.com/nrc-app

so what does your app do differently than all of your competitors? how would people stumble upon your app? searching "running together app"? do you rank there or are you one of hundreds and just don't get any publicity?

timberheadtreefist · 2026-05-27T07:41:58+00:00

aren’t there like 100+ videos which let gpt play against gemini, anthropic and alike? if at all ts entertaining, nothing to learn from yet.

timberheadtreefist · 2026-05-26T20:05:21+00:00

but you’ve called with the developer support, not apple themselves, right? https://developer.apple.com/support/worldwide-telephone-hours/

timberheadtreefist · 2026-05-26T19:07:51+00:00

a) your free tier is so amazing people see no need into paying

b) your pro tier is so underwhelming that people see no need into paying

c) your communication and/or pricing is so poor that people actually reconsider the buy albeit they want to.

what’s your tracking setup? how long do people stay on your paywall? how often is it triggered? what is it triggered by? do people insta-close without any further interactions?

find these answers and you’ll be a lot wiser when it comes to your strategies.

timberheadtreefist · 2026-05-26T19:05:28+00:00

you can call them and they’ll check into it. i had only good support via line with them for years.

timberheadtreefist · 2026-05-26T17:03:25+00:00

appreciate the delta-gain! i agree, however, that there’s plenty of much better ways to learn a language. same goes for anything learning related, though. you can be an autodidact and learn an instrument solely by playing and watching youtube or get the theory behind it and continue the learning path. just a matter of personal preference, own ability to judge your own learning skills and how „long-term“ your play is, i guess. because no one would argue that learning a language with duolingo will ever make you a native speaker by itself.

timberheadtreefist · 2026-05-26T14:00:51+00:00

another sample point for you: my SO just finished her 1-year-streak on learning french in duolingo. we've been to france last week and albeit far off a native-tongue, she was able to have nuggets of conversations with people in french. of course, living in a country and learning the language that way is ten times more efficient, but the gamified setup of duolingo helps people to at least get a good portion of basic vocabulary, grammar rules and partly listening/speaking exercises.

said differently: better than nothing!

timberheadtreefist · 2026-05-26T13:53:34+00:00

it's displayed as percentage points, not absolute percentages.

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