Stephan Eberle

Stephan Eberle

@stevieecodes.bsky.social

Software Developer, interested in Rails/Swift/Go/Flutter/Dart/ and building new things like https://dopaloop.app and https://quilence.app I'm on YT as well: https://youtube.com/@stevieecodes And on Medium: https://medium.com/@steviee

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Finch: one App Store rating per 13 downloads. DopaLoop: one per 344. So Mitia asks only after three different check-in days, never right after the paywall, at most three times a year. Asking at a good moment isn't a dark pattern. #buildinpublic #indiedev

Mitia has no account. No email, no login, no cloud copy of your habits. If you leave, there's nothing for me to delete. Nothing was uploaded. Open, tap, done. #ADHD #indiedev

Before launch I cut Mitia's free tier from five habits to three. With five, most people never see Pro exists. With three, the screen is full. Three to five later is a gift. Five to three takes something away. So it had to be before. #buildinpublic #indiedev

The home screen is where my attention actually lives. So Mitia has widgets on iPhone and Android. Tap logs a 3. Tap again takes it back. No app launch. (Widgets are Pro. Checking in inside the app is always free.)

Why two ADHD habit trackers? DopaLoop: help me understand my life. iOS. Mitia: let me track this without getting told off. iOS and Android. Same rule in both: no streak that can break you.

Nobody in my closed test found Mitia's 0 to 5 scale. It hid behind a long press. Which hurt, because the deliberate 0 lives there: not today, and I chose that. Now the empty screen says it out loud. Less clever. Better.

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The ADHD Iceberg. #adhd #adhdawareness #executivefunctionskills #adhdsupport #neurodiversity #neurodivergent #studentmentalhealth #ymhc

Mitia's App Review record: two rejections. 1. In-app purchases not attached, no terms of use link. 2. A screenshot said "free". No prices in store images. Not even free. Both things I knew. Live since 24 Sep anyway.

Missing a week doesn't hurt much. Opening the habit app afterwards does. So if you come back to Mitia after five days or more, it says: "Good to see you. The days in between don't need filling in." No day one. Just today.

Building two ADHD habit trackers in public: DopaLoop and Mitia. Mitia is newer and intentionally simpler. The goal is not perfect days. It is still opening the app after a messy one. What makes you abandon a habit app? #buildinpublic #ADHD

Just opened DopaLoop on my other test phone. I haven't had it in hands for weeks. DopaLoop asked me whether I wanted a routine to be adapted to once per week as it realized I didn't get to do it as regularly as I originally intended. No shaming, just help to stay on top of things! ❤️ #adhd #indiedev

I'm very excited about this release as it addresses executive dysfunction and task initiation. Paired with the fine-grained elevated alarms from 1.1.8 you can now set up your environment to be as helpful as needed to get started and going with building new habits! #adhd #indiedev

DopaLoop 1.2 has been released and with it some very exciting new functionality for bridging the gap between your phone and the real world and to lower the effort even more when it comes to checking in. apps.apple.com/us/app/dopal... #indiedev #adhd #habits

DopaLoop 1.1.18 is now live on the App Store and all about being helpful a lot quicker with a lot less hassle due to a shortened onboarding, better introductions and several smaller fixes. dopaloop.app #adhd #productivity #buildinpublic

dopaloop.appADHS Habit Tracker, Goals-First — DopaLoopGoals-First Habit Tracker für iPhone & Apple Watch. Speziell für ADHS gebaut: Kein Streak-Shaming, flexible 0–5 Intensität, alle Daten lokal. 14 Tage gratis.

I need your help! DopaLoop Android is now a thing, not as a hybrid app, but as a second codebase set up around the familiar features to resemble the iOS version as closely as possible. Help me doing it right from the beginning and join the testers group. #adhd #buildinpublic #android

First milestone: DopaLoop is ranked #3 in the German App Store for "ADHS habit tracker". With 2 reviews. Behind apps with 12,247 and 1,834. What DopaLoop needs right now? Actual reviews! 14-day free trial, fully local, no streak pressure: dopaloop.app Please review and test! #adhd #buildinpublic

I'm super happy to finally roll out this one! This new release has some substantial updates and fixes and its reminders are now upgraded to the next level! You now have fine-grained control over reminders and can even set them to "repeat until checked". #adhd #buildinpublic #habits #routines

ADHD can be really hard on us with time blindness and forgetfulness. DopaLoop can now escalate important routine reminders so that we won't miss them anymore! Version 1.1.14 is out with a new escalating alarm feature for notifications to iOS Alarm that you will notice. apps.apple.com/app/apple-st...

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ADHD at work isn’t just distraction. It’s managing attention, energy, transitions, overwhelm, and expectations all at the same time. It’s not about laziness or lack of care. Many people with ADHD are working twice as hard to manage attention and energy throughout the day. #ADHD #Neurodivergent

I love the MCP server that is embedded in Astro (tryastro.app). Until now (and probably to double-check in the future) I used RespectASO on a local Proxmox VM for this kind of work, but having more sources gives a broader view. Really like it! How to you ASO? #indiedev #buildinpublic

tryastro.appAstro: App Store Optimization Tool for iOS developersAstro helps you improve the visibility of your app and grow your revenue. Track keywords, check the popularity and difficulty of each keyword, and get suggestions on the best keywords to add.

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Hi everyone - looking for ~10 people to join an alpha test of a new ebook app I built, let me know if you're interested. Android only (for now). Loads epubs and access to public domain books.

This week's Launching in Pyjamas is about a concept I've been implementing in DopaLoop: Upboarding, the opposite of frontloading, why marketing as a solo indie dev feels like bringing a knife to a gunfight and why a stranger from Singapore buying the lifetime version at 3am made it all worth it.

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Good morning, everyone! This week's post is out. #adhd #buildinpublic #indiedev #adhs

I'm happy to announce that Versio 1.0.3 of Stevie's family chess was approved by my sons. And by Apple. There's some bugfixes and UX improvements as well as new combinations of chess boards and chess pieces selectable. apps.apple.com/us/app/stevi... #adhd #indiedev #gamedev #buildinpublic

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