Kiru 🇨🇭

The year is ending, a summer of all the apps I have so far in the app store. The last few weeks I have been working hard on improving (4) and testing (5). Stay tuned for more apps and improvements. #buildinpublic

A simple visual I made to show how much of a movie is contained in the trailer:

Trying to animate what people guessed for each color.

Still working on the colorguesser.com, here is the latest video.

My daily game colorguesser has at least 12k unique users per day. It's mostly targeted at designers and color-lovers. If you want to promote your project, I am selling ad-spaces for a month. DM me for more details. (RT if are not interested, but know someone who is)

May the programming gods forgive me, for I have sinned:

I put it online for now: trailerspoiler.com It's a project to rate trailers and see which one are worth watching *before* and which one *after*. Still work in progress, but if anyone is keen to test

Working on a new fun project.

The indie dev paradox: you don't want to talk about your app, but you want downloads. 😅

Love these kind of reviews!

One of these sets of screenshots perform way better than the other ones, which one?

The boost for my app has ended. time to focus on marketing now.

Posting my apps to the relevant subreddits. www.reddit.com/r/iosapps/co...

Submitted a few versions of LangDiary (dot com), mainly some bug fixes and crashes I noticed. A new feature is that you can now choose how much the app should change your writing.

Life could have been easier if this document.scrollIntoView() function had logical argument names, but nah let's screw over the programmers. Could have had logical names like horizontal and vertical, but instead let's call it block and inline. Makes more sense.

Starting the week with a positive rating for my language diary app. #buildinpbulic

Hi everyone, I built a journaling app to improve my French (works with a bunch of other languages as well): ✍️ Write daily 🧠 Get instant corrections 📈 Learn naturally by reflecting on your day Now live on the App Store → langdiary.com

how is the product page view going up but the conversion rate going down??? @buildinpublic.com

I submitted ColorGuesser.com (a stupid project I made long time ago) to HN. Give me some love by upvoting: hn.algolia.com?q=colorguesser

Finally ready to release my new app: apps.apple.com/us/app/langu... Going to be online this Saturday!

When App Store insist, you don't comply with the rules, but you do. #buildinpublic

After endless back and forth, I can see my new app LangDiary finally being close to be accepted.Let the App Store gods have mercy with me. if you wanna pre-order go ahead: apps.apple.com/us/app/langu...

Vibe coding is fun, but fixing bug without understanding the code is a recipe for disaster.

I feel so stupid. Just discovered that TikTok tells you exactly when to post your videos to maximize the interactions.

Trying to b consistent here, but it's hard when the numbers fluctuate so much

I started posting random videos on Tiktok, ~250 views is not much, but if I do that every day, that's already 7.5k potential views. #buildinpublic

Getting out of my comfort zone. Trying to create some videos talking about my app and how I sue it and showing product updates. The first few videos are going to be horrible quality probably, but worth a try. #buildinpublic.

Sneaky @Stripe telling you "you have to migrate" by giving you a choice: > Stripe is deprecating usage-records billing. Moving forward, you can migrate to billing meters, our only solution for usage-based billing.

Interesting onboarding of CapWords by @thexclu which won the design awards. Here is the video for inspirations.

Is vibe-coding just a fancy term for pair programming with an LLM?

Refactoring the main screen for my upcoming language diary app. #buildinpublic

Trying to understand the stripe model (bc I have to migrate some old code). Just discovered this wonderful schema page. It's a bit cumbersome to use and could be improved with some tiny descriptions of what each model describes ... but already miles better than reverse-engineering their docu

I am using GitLab or GitHub for most of my projects, I don't remember the landing page when I signed up. My main usage is 99% as git-repo. The rest is issue management and PR-features. Nowadays, when you check the landing page, it's 99% AI and 1% git-repo. Is that their core feature?

Elixir is the language where the creator will review your random snippet of code.

Submitted bugfix for whatdinner. #buildinpublic

We passed the uncanny valley for AI generated recipe images.

Is there a platform to track all the lies the Google AI response is telling me?

Who is working on the Shopify Tariffs Surcharge plugin? #buildinpublic

Another app, another truth. This one has majority of the user preferring dark-mode.

Submitted a new version of WhatDinner with a discovery tap. The idea is to get daily dinner inspirations. This is a first version, so it's going to be a big buggy. whatdinner.com

Translated the screenshots to multiple languages. This used to be cumbersome, but now with AI - you understand it less and just trust a statistical machine to produce mostly correct results.

Experimenting with a spinner wheel to decide on what to eat tonight. Just tried with a lot of recipes, look nice - but also crowded.

Just launched a new app for pre-order on March 9! (It'll automatically download to your phone once it's ready.) In one sentence: Journaling meets language learning. Already 134 people have signed up—will you be next?

I wish Apple would publish data on how prevalent dark-mode is, even better by the App Store category. Here for one of my apps in the last few days: ~18% of the users use dark-mode.

One of my apps had a terrible conversion rate. Turned out I neglected dark-mode and focused too much on adding features. Thanks to the random online user who sent me a screenshot of how looked in dark-mode. Spent a few hours fixing the issue. Hopefully this will increase the conversion rate.