Sara Magdits

iOS dev & mom building an app to make gestational diabetes management calmer & empowering. GD survivor (2021 → T2). Logging meals w/ AI photos, glucose trends.

[Ryan Doyle @doooyle]

surprised more people aren't doing something like this

Codex now creates a "newspaper" for me every morning

Unread messages, calendar, surf report, news

Anything I can do to stay off my phone until later in the day is a priority

[Glow Glucose: Gestational Diabetes Tracker @glowglucose]

Glow Glucose is live on the App Store. Snap a photo of your meal — AI identifies the food and calculates the carbs. Track your blood sugar, see trends, and get post-meal reminders. Built for gestational diabetes. #gestationaldiabetes #GDM
https://t.co/NR40kwzAvn

[Sara Magdits @SMagdits]

Guys I just spent 2 weeks waiting for the App Store reviewers to review my app after resubmitting after the first rejection, only to find out that I hadn't signed the new developer licensing agreement that came out in the interim. I signed it, and they approved it within 12 hours. Don't be silly like me lol.

[Sara Magdits @SMagdits]

@megcorren Just checked out the update, logging is much clearer now and I love the widget!

[Sara Magdits @SMagdits]

@NirBenita Thank you for taking the time to detail this out! This is my first time seeing Motion, I'm going to take some time looking through those examples.

[Sara Magdits @SMagdits]

Claude code is suddenly so dumb today? Like working on a creating a plan for a task and then just... outputting nothing. Or completely hallucinating things and then coming clean about making it all up.

Is anybody else experiencing this?

[Sara Magdits @SMagdits]

@LunaBitar 2. Get my husband to download the app.

3. He finds 20 bugs while trying to break my app.

4. The nerve, lol

[Sara Magdits @SMagdits]

@1337hero @jessegenet @openclaw Brilliant, I’m going to try that

[Sara Magdits @SMagdits]

@1337hero @jessegenet @openclaw I want to do this, was it a pain to get it set up to be accessible outside your home network?

[Sara Magdits @SMagdits]

We let our son play Kirby on one of these and even that is too much for him to handle. Although it was good for teaching him to handle frustration, and he eventually beat Kirby. But he would just lose it every time we went to turn it off. NES lives in the closet for now. We'll try this and our old N64 system when he's older and I look forward to that. I also saved all my Game Boy games for him.

[Sara Magdits @SMagdits]

@AnnikaSays Ooh using slack is a brilliant idea!

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

If Claude Code or Codex just one-shotted an app for you, Read this.

Now you gotta go through every screen and find the 47 edge cases that break it. Users will do things you never imagined. Then comes auth, database setup, API rate limits, error handling for when the server goes down at 2am. You need analytics to figure out what users actually do vs what you think they do. App Store optimization, screenshots, descriptions, review responses. Privacy policies, terms of service, data compliance. Push notifications that actually work without being annoying. Performance optimization because that smooth demo gets real laggy with real data. State management across the whole app. Caching strategy. Offline support. Responsive design across 15 different screen sizes. Testing on older devices that somehow still exist. CI/CD pipeline so deploys don't eat your weekends. Then users start requesting features you never planned for and suddenly your clean architecture needs a rewrite.

The first version is maybe 10% of the actual work. Building is easy. Shipping and maintaining is where it gets real.

[Sara Magdits @SMagdits]

@kieralwellness Endometrial biopsy without pain relief is one of the more barbaric ones…

[Sara Magdits @SMagdits]

@megkatcorren How was the learning curve for this?

[Sara Magdits @SMagdits]

@Rasmic Is fast just the same thing but faster? Like I’m ok with waiting in between prompts, it’s fine.

[Sara Magdits @SMagdits]

@gregisenberg Does anybody know any Claude skills for this? Not sure if going full openclaw is the move for me yet.

[Sara Magdits @SMagdits]

@jessegenet @openclaw This is an amazing niche, I'd love to see how you use it. I'm a homeschooling mom and the thought hadn't even crossed my mind.

[Sara Magdits @SMagdits]

@seraleev I purchased the dev account through the Apple Developer mobile app and there was no success confirmation message so I thought it failed. Went and enrolled again through the website with success. They charged me 2x, I had to dispute it which wasn't easy to find the link for.