Dylan K

Solo dev shipping Windows apps, web tools and phone games. Honest numbers, zeros included. Building @SundryMill

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Pipsmith is now live on the App Store 🎲

It's a dice roguelike. You take over Nan's old forge in a smithing town and work through a week of orders across four districts, with a boss at the end of each one and the Forgemaster waiting at the very end.

Every fight you roll five dice, keep the ones you like and fill the orders on the sheet, a bit like Yahtzee. Between fights you pick your road, buy charms at the market and forge new faces onto your dice at the anvil. Every run starts fresh with a new road to pick.

Over 280 achievements, a daily run and a weekly challenge with the same dice for everyone. Free, no ads.

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Wayfold 1.1.0 is live with 150 new levels and its first In-App Event.

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@dannypostma Building my apps takes days now. Getting the first hundred people to open one is the part with no shortcut

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@simonw My agents write summaries longer than the diff. Putting the one line that matters up top and folding the rest is going straight into my setup

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@ThePrimeagen I ship Windows apps and a fresh Windows first boot still scares me more than any bug report

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@kentcdodds Based on what it knows about me I would get a desk, a chair and a charger for every test phone

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@ChadAppDev Even better. iOS trials at that price make me want to point some ads at my own iPhone apps

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@LeeWyattCorp Small one off unlocks and a bundle for now. Watching what people actually buy before I touch any prices

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https://t.co/cAC9mWgxTD

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@levelsio Would've been $200k a month of GPU so the internet could type into a TV. Worth it for the bit

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@theo My review agents only get to nitpick my own repos. They've earned the right to be annoying there

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Email subscriber numbers going up on my sites. Hitting solid view numbers on Instagram, Facebook and TikTok

Me:

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@rauchg Half expecting the next commit to add the dust and the crackle when you drop the needle

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@ThePrimeagen What fixed it for me: a short CLAUDE.md with the rules, a docs folder it reads first, and every job in its own worktree and branch. Mine slowed down when one session was trying to hold the whole repo in its head

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I'm sharing this one as it gets built, the testing, the fixes and the numbers once it's out. Follow along if you want to see how the launch goes

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Been working on this game for a while. Pretty keen to launch it soon.

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@MeisterCoins @thdxr Glad there's a club. My phone has become a 2am raid test bench and I've stopped pretending otherwise

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@LeeWyattCorp I only recently launched my games so haven’t got enough sales data to say.

In a utility app I worked on the weekly subscription was the best seller. Right now I’m tinkering to find a working formula with games

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@swyx @dexhorthy @CompleteSkeptic Stickers are the only swag that actually ends up on a laptop. Everything else lives in a drawer

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@ChadAppDev Hitting a daily limit on reviewing the game I just lost is the most https://t.co/uBhlLHXkxX thing ever