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front-end • dev • ios apps • building with ai • indie projects • youtube automation

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Shipped something new 🥳

Intermittent fasting for brain rot

Fomo Fast blocks your apps outside the windows you choose.

Less scrolling. More control.

👇

https://t.co/2S2OirAFj8

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They’re consistent. They just keep showing up.

I don’t really know @wickedguro, but I’ve followed @HsanC_ and @jackfriks for a while, and it always felt like they were building, sharing, improving, and not disappearing.

Maybe luck played a part too, but it usually finds the people who don’t quit.

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@adel_ljaljic Yeah, I’m trying paid ads, but no real success so far. Thinking of pausing them and leaning more into tiktok/insta.

What type of content working best for you?

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@JustinasRoland0 Hi, I’m trying to learn marketing for my apps and sharing detailed updates on what I’m testing along the way.

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@erayusta Olay zaten marketing kaslarını güçlendirmek ama nasıl, ai o kadar rahata alıştırdı ki manuel instagram, tiktok vs kasmak aşırı zor geliyor.

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@NikChr1414 @egmnxyz Somehow my replies weren’t showing up, but they come back after a couple of weeks weird.

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@ImNotAV1rus Same here. You need a very good ad budget or a good amount of followers on any platform. Otherwise it’s just luck to succeed in indie developing.

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@fkadev Frontendciler yine işsiz kaldı 😅

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@asahi0x Commercial kullanıma izin veriyorsa yavaş da olsa iş görebilir aslında. Nir denemek lazım. Bookmarkladım muhtemelen bir daha bakmam 😅

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welp, moving this experiment back to my main account 😅

gonna keep posting the results here

[Egemen @egmnxyz]

Honest marketing report, week 1. Three indie iOS apps, $252 total.

Paid: $227 on Apple Search Ads for two of them → 79 installs. $2.20 per install on RosterShift, $4.85 on Fomo Fast.

Organic: $25 on a marketing tool, 8 AI slideshows/posts on fresh IG + YouTube accounts for all three → 2.2K views, 2 likes, 0 installs.

Earned so far: ~$3. Numbers below 🧵

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@SebastianRoehl @HabitKit Looks really promising. Just hope they don’t nerf it once the hype dies down 😅

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@Baconbrix I am this 🤏 close switching from Claude to Grok/Cursor

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I have a new term for this whole outbid lol madness

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@msahajwani fair. everything on that page is some kind of leaderboard and they pile up. what did you look at first?

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@saurra3h That’ it I’m gonna build one, too. But first I need to figure out to find a payment system that works on my country. Because stripe and paypal can not be used here 😒

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Everybody codes with ai now even the man who build the linux. So why are we trying to hide it lol. Just embrace it and proudly say this was created by ai.

Does it work, is it useful thats all matters most of time, and I agree the ai ui is not bad at all

[fatih kadir akın @fkadev]

I don't understand why people hate AI-generated front-ends. Yes, they are not creative, yet not that bad. We used to use really shit UIs before AI can code.

Human slop > AI slop. I'm OK with them.

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@danielbelfort Cool idea but waiting would suck, instead an app which creates ebooks for you and you can read it immediately would be much better. Maybe I should build something like that 🤔

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I don’t think we fully realize what a weird point in history we’re living through

We might be the last generation that can watch a movie, listen to a song or look at art and assume a human made it.

20 years from now even “human-made” might mean nth, because we’ll never know.

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Sometimes I miss spending hours on google just to find a 3 year old github issue with the exact fix I needed

The feeling when it actually worked was unmatched

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Read through the open sourced X algorithm this week. The part nobody mentions: it also predicts how likely you are to mute or block the author. It's not just guessing who'll like your post