Chris Wu

iOSDevHappyHour and CommunityKit organizer

SwiftUI hobbyist

@\ on Bluesky

MuseumShuffle on mastodon dot social

he/him

[Create with Swift @createwithswift]

Yesterday was magical. Create with Swift Napoli Meetup 8 was our biggest meetup to date!

Thanks, @0xTim, @ipeekerten and @MuseumShuffle, for being part of our lineup and sharing your experiences and expertise with our community.

If you are an Apple developer or designer and haven't been to one of our meetups yet, you should come check it out next time — we'd love to have you!

You can sign up for updates at our Luma calendar here: https://t.co/HSndiOm1YD

Thanks to everyone who showed up. It made the whole evening special. See you in the next one! ✨

[Chris Wu @MuseumShuffle]

@No_Wham @dadederk @swift_leeds @KotlinLeeds @klemensstrasser Making a rare appearance to say I fully support your effort with @klemensstrasser

[Chris Wu @MuseumShuffle]

@jeiting Hello over a month later.

Please Don't Rain: https://t.co/OwaBcE8Quy

[Swiftsonic Conference @swiftsonicconf]

📣@MuseumShuffle TAKES THE STAGE BY STORM!

☔️ Chris has been an indie developer since 2017 and works on his current app, Please Don't Rain. He’s also an organizer of iOS Dev Happy Hour and CommunityKit.

[Adrian Eves @swifteves]

▶️ It's time to push play on something new!

⭐️ @swiftsonicconf is a new iOS & Swift conference coming to Nashville November 20-22, 2026!

🎤 Community-driven, focused on real-world iOS and Swift stories, and shaped like a music festival.

👇🏻 More info in the replies!

[Chris Wu @MuseumShuffle]

@nyeeu @Fire_At_Will_ My friend Tyler wrote a tool for this!

https://t.co/uVbfu5uwy5

[Aishwarya Raja @aishuthillo]

Wrapped up with amazing indie dev fair. Honestly, I felt so happy to present my app and onboarded few people. It was indeed a fun, interactive experience. I personally loved most of the projects and ideas behind it. Thanks @communitykit_ for engaging great minds together ❤️

[Balamuthu @enterbaluzworld]

Grateful to be part of Indie Fair by @communitykit_. thanks to @swifteves, @mikaela__caron, @RevenueCat & organisers! Had a good time meeting people, & talking about our apps @Feelly_App, @tennisalleyapp
Loved the conversations and giving away books and polos! #WWDC25 #indiedev

[Adam Lyttle @adamlyttleapps]

I got indie swag! (the best type of swag)

And met some indie devs in person at communitykit indie fair:

[Chris Wu @MuseumShuffle]

@emcro After 3 rejections I gave up! 🤪

[Chris Wu @MuseumShuffle]

I've been working on this release of Please Don't Rain for weeks.

My first time doing all of these: iPad support, paywalls by @RevenueCat , App Store In-App event, and a free trial.

I love the artwork my sister drew for the event!

#Procreate

[Chris Wu @MuseumShuffle]

@rogerluan_ Correct. It’s a snapshot of the App Store.

[Chris Wu @MuseumShuffle]

@rogerluan_ https://t.co/NAICS2IT3n

[Chris Wu @MuseumShuffle]

@rogerluan_ You provide the text and the graphic and the App Store creates that ui , including the blur.

[Chris Wu @MuseumShuffle]

@SuzGupta Thank you! I’m going to show her these comments.

[Chris Wu @MuseumShuffle]

@klemensstrasser Thank you fellow Golden Apple nominee! 🤗

[Chris Wu @MuseumShuffle]

@FosiaDesign Cupertino 2025

[Chris Wu @MuseumShuffle]

@SebJVidal I'm very alive in other places. 😎

Thank you!

[Chris Wu @MuseumShuffle]

@vitalii What on earthhhhh? @JustMeDevin must have shown up minutes after I left. I think he planned it that way.

[Melissa Cash @melissacash_]

Today we joined forces with @SarahPerezTC at @TechCrunch to announce @playpokpok's $6M Series A, led by @adjacent!

And, if you want to know what it's like trying to get a smidge of that 2.2% of global VC dollars allotted to women founders, keep reading...

@ncsh from Adjacent is awesome. He has incredible expertise and we're so glad to have him lead this round. Plus, he's unlike any other VC I've met (that's a compliment). Perhaps just as important, with him comes the expertise from his kids, too! His daughter has been playing with Pok Pok for over two years, and has an opinion just as important as her dad's. 😉

Same goes for @TurnerNovak's kids at @BananaCap_ and @shiftb's family.

And all of the kids at @metalab — shout out to @davidtapp and @Desdeke!

We're also thrilled to have the folks at @konvoyventures participating again too, and just love that with every passing year, more kids (and future playtesters) are being born into the Konvoy klan.

The TLDR: we are so grateful to have a bunch of amazing investors be part of Pok Pok.

But, we had a really tough time finding female investors for this round, something that was not the case in the past.

It turns out that way fewer women VCs invest beyond Seed stage.

After all that pitching, we found ourselves at a tipping point.

We were so thrilled to have some really awesome investors in our corner, but it just didn't sit right to close without a single woman on the cap table (especially given our product and customer)!

So we paused.

@EstherH_ and I debriefed, allocated a chunk of capital and vowed to prioritize women investors in a second close. We were grateful to have had the unwavering support of our board and Nico in this decision.

It took more time, but we found some incredible women like @shellkennedylon and tons more who aren't on X. One even started a new VC just to make this investment...

These women are strategic, valuable and simply awesome.

I’m sharing this story to hopefully inspire even just one woman to start investing and one founder to push a little bit harder for a diverse cap table. 💛

And maybe in 2024 we can make that 2.2% a 3% and finally quantify how many female investors there really are out there so we can prioritize adding more!

Now, back to building! 💪

https://t.co/VBcJydNYHJ