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Building Small Apps - Sharing What I Learn

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@temitope_rotimi Hi from the Netherlands. Software dev by day, small iPhone apps in Swift at night, with AI helping on parts of the code. Nice, lets connect

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@anirban_shuvo Indie on the iOS side here. A few small iPhone apps built in Swift after a 9 to 5, AI helps with parts of the code. Would love to connect

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@HildelPete32806 For the popup I would keep it to one screen and the one change people will actually notice, shown once per update. The popups that get dismissed on sight are the ones listing every bug fix.

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@Albu_Studio Navigation, mostly. NavigationView turning up in code that already has a NavigationStack. Stating the minimum iOS version up front is a good call, it removes most of the guessing.

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AI agents write SwiftUI like someone who learned it from four iOS versions at once.

it compiles. then you find NavigationView next to NavigationStack, and an ObservableObject in a file that already uses the Observable macro.

most of the review is picking one era.

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@ZeeshhDecodes Simulator for the day to day, then a real iPhone every week or so and before anything ships. The simulator is fine for layout. How it feels in the hand only shows up on the phone.

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@linus5x No clever catch. The test never checks what is in the image, so the only way to see it is to open the files. On the Duo XCUIScreen.main is the outer display even when the phone is open.

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the agent writes the screen in a minute. it still can't hold the phone.

my worst misses were never in the diff. an empty first screen on iPad, a screenshot test capturing the wrong display. you only find those by running the thing.

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@rhrits @X Telling it to fix the failing tests from across the room is a nice touch. iOS dev here, small Swift apps with AI helping on parts of the code. Cool build, lets connect

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@research75545 @itsanchitd @X Same setup on the iOS side. Small native apps in Swift, AI helps with parts of the code, the testing is still all me. Nice, lets connect

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@sinanata Every mode on that menu was a question the player had to answer before having any fun. One click into a match answers it for them. The extra modes can come back later, once people know why they would want one.

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@Thach24079000 @observable Pinned. The instructions file has the minimum iOS version and says to guard anything newer. That fixes the API side. The patterns still drift, so review catches the rest.

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@linus5x Honestly it has only gone one way so far. The closest I get is saying no before it ships, which is a lot cheaper than taking it back after.

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AI made every feature request cheap to say yes to.

that's the problem. each one is twenty minutes of code and one more setting the next person has to scroll past.

the cost of a feature was never the build.

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three weeks to build an app with AI is not the impressive part anymore.

the impressive part is week four, when it is live and nobody has a reason to open the store page.

building got cheap. being worth a download did not.

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@benz__002 Indie hacker on the iOS side. Small iPhone apps in Swift next to a day job, AI helps with parts of the code. Following, lets connect

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@iAnujVarshney iOS side here. Small iPhone apps in Swift after a 9 to 5, AI helps with parts of the code. Nice, lets connect

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@tomaszkuzniar Mobile dev here too. Small iPhone apps in Swift after a 9 to 5, with AI helping on parts of the code. Would love to connect

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@abhi_ag165 A cancel seconds after the start is mostly not churn. Plenty of people switch off auto-renew right away so they do not forget, then keep using the trial. The signal is whether they still open the app on the last day.

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@Revenger5432 Premium comes fast with those tools, native is the hard half. On Apple platforms native mostly means the system controls and spacing, and saying no to the custom ones the tool keeps suggesting.