Johan Forsell

Here’s what I’ve been working on! A place to track and share all your miniature collections and paint recipes. Sign up if you think it might be useful for you 😊 vitrineminis.com #miniatures #paintingminiatures #miniaturepainting #warhammer #wargames #wepaintminis #paintingwarhammer #tabletop

Clair Obscur Expedition 33 - Tomorrow Comes

"What's My Set?" is out on the App Store! It's a set counter for workouts, and look at those beautiful Accessibility nutrition labels shipping from day one. Congrats, @chriswu.com! Go download and rate it.

Vitrine 1.0.3 with support for comments on public miniatures sent for review to push to beta testers. Vacation mode has slowed down development but we’re still moving forward! #miniatures #paintingminiatures #miniaturepainting #warhammer #wargames #wepaintminis #buildinpublic #tabletop

🚨 Announcing our HEADLINER speakers for the FIRST EVER Swiftsonic! 🚨 Come hear from these ROCKSTAR devs in Nashville this November 🤘

I'm so excited over this new feature. It didn't take that long to build, but my GOD it will be a great thing to have, as the native APIs lack any kind of undo support.

This is pretty wild: I’m approaching $10k proceeds from the App Store. By no means an app business I can lean on completely, but quite a ways from my expectations back in 2022 when I released Bartab after building it as a means for learning how to code. Consistency is key! #buildinpublic

Bartab is seeing an increase in German and French users. Localization work paying off? 🤔 #buildinpublic

Seeing my best month to date, app revenue wise. 🥳 A combination of Bartab subs, uptick in lifetime purchases and the Vitrine launch. What’s interesting is this is still at sub 150 monthly downloads, so the hardest part of app business is still the biggest bottleneck; distribution 🙃 #buildinpublic

Okay this wasn’t as cumbersome to implement as I feared. Still needs some ironing out of course, but I like this already! Next up: Vitrine user mentions and bug chasing. #miniatures #paintingminiatures #minipainting #warhammer #wargames #wepaintminis #tabletop #paintingwarhammer #buildinpublic

When I’m not building apps I’m building… other things. Now that this is done I can go back to focusing on updates to Vitrine and Bartab!

Not gonna make a big thing of it, but if anyone would like to commission a model from me then my DMs are open. Got let go from my job a few weeks back so would really help out. #warhammer #40k #minipainting #warhammercommunity

I’m getting rid of the profile settings and merging a purged version with the existing profile view. I feel like this makes for a more coherent and easily digestible experience. #miniatures #paintingminiatures #minipainting #warhammer #wargames #wepaintminis #tabletop #buildinpublic

I genuinely like this app, I don't look at other peoples work much but when I do it's pretty cool. Mostly I use it to track my projects so I don't end up with a phone full of WIP pics and it's pretty awesome for that.

Literally every purchase so far for Vitrine has been the lifetime option. The goal was to provide a non-subscription option that feels reasonably priced, but maybe I overdid it 🤣 Will keep an eye on this and maybe recalculate the app economics if the trend stays 😅 #buildinpublic #indiedev

Already 1100+ miniatures tracked! 🤩 Super cool to see the influx of users, hoping for another spike in the weekend when more people have time for their hobbies 😁 Don’t forget to bring your friends! #miniatures #minipainting #wepaintminis #warhammer #wargames #buildinpublic #indiedev

Vitrine is now live on the App Store and Google Play! 🎉 It made the first lifetime premium sale 10 minutes after release, which feels like a good signal 🤩 Go get it now! #miniatures #paintingminiatures #miniaturepainting #warhammer #wargames #wepaintminis #minipainting #tabletop #buildinpublic

The app is Vitrine by @joforselldev.bsky.social I’m in the beta and it’s pretty good. Lots of customisation, lets you build your collection, paints and track progress. Worth a look.

Less than a week until release! Release builds up for review with Apple and Google, last thing to go in them is this substitute paint feature. Don’t forget to preorder for 50% off any Premium plan! #miniatures #minipainting #wepaintminis #warhammer #wargames #buildinpublic #indiedev

Hey, look at that! 200 likes! I’m basically TikTok famous! #buildinpublic #indiedev

Creators get credit and a showroom link on each copy made from their paint recipes. There’s also a copy count to help gauge interest for any recipe and a push notification when copied. #miniatures #minipainting #paintingminiatures #wepaintminis #warhammer #wargaming #buildinpublic #indiedev

Want a showroom of your own? You can reserve your handle today at vitrineminis.com/reserve to make sure you get the handle you’re familiar with, then link it with your account after launch on June 8. #miniatures #minipainting #wepaintminis #paintingminiatures #buildinpublic #indiedev

You can now see directly in the feed if a miniature has paint recipes attached to it. Paint recipes are also now available from the details screen, so you can get there with fewer taps. #miniatures #minipainting #paintingminiatures #wepaintminis #warhammer #wargaming #buildinpublic #indiedev

I’m learning that I am terrible at predicting what videos will be (relatively) popular in short form video feeds. I’m also learning that coming up with content is exhausting 😮‍💨 #buildinpublic #indiedev

Made some small improvements to the showroom miniature screen. Makes browsing even more enjoyable! Don’t forget to preorder Vitrine for 50% off any premium plan 😊 vitrineminis.com #miniatures #minipainting #warhammer #wargaming #buildinpublic #indiedev

New build coming up with push notifications! Only likes for now, but want to also add counter + notifications for when someone copies one of your recipes. Also, ground work for when comments are added 👀 #miniatures #minipainting #warhammer #wargames #paintingminiatures #buildinpublic #indiedev

It's that time of the week again. In UK it's a public holiday on Monday and the weather forecast is ☀️. So, if you fancy a walk or wheel why not choose the path less travelled and let Hike Maker suggest a new route unique to wherever you are or plan to be? #walking #travel #outdoors #hiking #indiedev

Public beta launch! I'm thrilled to go public with Darkfield, my latest app. It's an all-in-one toolkit for amateur astronomers. It's been in the works since autumn and I'm ready to share. Public launch later in 2026. Sign up for the beta now at robowen.io/apps/darkfield/ #iOSDev #indiedev

24 preorders on iOS one week in! Three weeks until release, we’ll see if it can break 100 😊 No idea on Android, since preregistration stats don’t work 🫠 but if beta testers are any indication it should be around the same. #buildinpublic #indiedev

These look awesome, check this out if you want human-painted, beautiful backdrops for your miniature photography!

Links from sharing specific miniatures was broken and is getting fixed. While fixing that, I realized you should probably be notified when you’re trying to share a miniature that isn’t part of your public showroom. #miniatures #minipainting #warhammer #wargames #buildinpublic #indiedev

Showrooms in Vitrine are now much easier to manage, with a dedicated settings view that gives you an overview of what’s public and what isn’t. You can now also opt out of showing up in the feed, while keeping your showroom public. #miniatures #minipainting #buildinpublic #indiedev #warhammer

Ok, hear me out… What if Vitrine helped you reduce your pile of shame by facilitating painting challenges between you and your friends? You choose your opponent, set the time limit and number of finished minis required. Would you challenge someone? #miniatures #minipainting #buildinpublic

Another ergonomics improvement, automatically filling in appropriate tags when selecting a model. Another fantastic idea from a beta tester 🤩 #miniatures #minipainting #miniaturepainting #paintingminiatures #warhammer #wargames #buildinpublic #indiedev

Showrooms no longer show miniatures without images and collections now properly get images or composed mosaics. Random showroom flow is now much more ergonomic and logic is in place to prevent showing the same showroom in close succession. #miniatures #minipainting #buildinpublic #indiedev

Aaaaand I’m banned for 7 days 🤣 Apparently the no buying/selling/trading rule doesn’t just apply for miniatures/3D models…

I tried my hand at a Reddit post to reach more people for Vitrine. Go upvote it please! 😁 www.reddit.com/r/Warhammer4... #miniatures #minipainting #wepaintminis #buildinpublic #indiedev

Added an additional category for tags/filters; edition. And a specialized empty state when you’re searching early for 11th edition 😅 We’ll see if Vitrine or 11th drops first! #miniatures #paintingminiatures #minpainting #warhammer #wargames #wepaintminis #tabletop #buildinpublic #indiedev

New series "building a local LLM gateway in Swift with Hummingbird "— serving both the Anthropic and OpenAI APIs, one backend, deployable as a 12 MB binary. Prologue explains why Swift on the server makes sense in 2026. www.rotecodefraktion.de/en/blog/humm... #ai #hummingbird #swift