Marc Hildmann

Indie dev building desktop tools. Currently: ColumnLens — opens massive CSV/JSONL/Parquet files in seconds.

[Marc Hildmann @Hilti]

Apple approved ColumnLens for the Mac App Store. It's built with Dear ImGui and C++. Pretty sure it's one of the first ImGui apps on the store.

Wrote up what the process looked like: https://t.co/T0nNWViSly

#imgui #dearimgui #cpp #macOS #indiedev #buildinpublic

[Marc Hildmann @Hilti]

@Voxyz_ai I did and it crashed my Mac even on a small codebase. There are known memory leaks.

[Marc Hildmann @Hilti]

@lucaspatiri_ UGC

[Marc Hildmann @Hilti]

@_rabbi Okay. Me in the jungle.

[Omar 🍋 @ocornut]

Hi hi, Dear ImGui 1.92.7 is released!
50+ changes (e.g. tables reworked columns freezing with hidden columns, reorder from context menu, webgpu for emscripten 5 & wgvk native, nav keyboard/gamepad to open context menus, & many fixes/improvements)
https://t.co/wp1T9N5Gox

[Marc Hildmann @Hilti]

@fiveoutofnine I'd love to see MacBook Neo 8 GB results.

[Marc Hildmann @Hilti]

@SMT_Solvers @ollama Same here and happy with the performance.

[Marc Hildmann @Hilti]

@aisurvivallog MultiHop-RAG (2,556 queries)
TextLens: 0.771 Hit@10 | bge-large (335M): 0.769 | voyage-02 (cloud): 0.819.
Beats bge-large overall.
Beats voyage-02 on comparison queries. The gap is only in inference queries where you need deep semantic reasoning.

[Marc Hildmann @Hilti]

I dropped the TurboQuant paper into my app and asked it questions.

No upload. No cloud. No subscription.

Just my Mac, a custom 25 MB RAG engine, and answers in under a second. Follow along.

#TurboQuant #BuildInPublic #LocalRAG #Privacy #AI #Defense #Government

[Marc Hildmann @Hilti]

@bengi_dev @jacobtechtavern I recently shipped a C++ app with a very small Obj-C bridge. My benchmark: my app appears even before the dock icon finished the first jump 😅

[Marc Hildmann @Hilti]

@oliviscusAI This is cool! I already started to wrap my head around for possible use cases

[Marc Hildmann @Hilti]

Spent the morning putting together a case study on analyzing healthcare data with ColumnLens. CDC mortality stats, CMS Medicare records, SQL queries, charts. All running locally on your Mac.

https://t.co/xXv7jOWTA6

#IndieDev #HealthData #SQL #MacOS

[Marc Hildmann @Hilti]

@SaidAitmbarek @MicroLaunchHQ Thank you so much!

[Marc Hildmann @Hilti]

21K views and 120 bookmarks on my write-up about getting an ImGui app on the App Store. It means a lot to me. The AppStore numbers are unfortunately not there yet. Will share ASAP.

#buildinpublic #indiedev #producthunt

Today it's live on Product Hunt: https://t.co/nsqHUzTaQU

[Marc Hildmann @Hilti]

24K impressions, zero sales. Classic indie dev moment.

Let's think different: I'm giving away 10 free copies of ColumnLens.

Reply with your biggest pain point working with large data files and I'll pick 10 people and DM you a code.

All I ask: leave an honest App Store review.

[Marc Hildmann @Hilti]

Apple approved ColumnLens for the Mac App Store. It's built with Dear ImGui and C++. Pretty sure it's one of the first ImGui apps on the store.

Wrote up what the process looked like: https://t.co/T0nNWViSly

#imgui #dearimgui #cpp #macOS #indiedev #buildinpublic

[Marc Hildmann @Hilti]

23K views. 400 clicks. 1 sale. This is fine. 🔥
#buildinpublic

[Marc Hildmann @Hilti]

@TVanWelsenes @Guronnimo Cool name! I guess it's "blueprint" in dutch?

[Marc Hildmann @Hilti]

@DanielcHooper This looks super smooth - I love it!
Have you tried CoreGraphics before?

[Marc Hildmann @Hilti]

@TVanWelsenes I can't wait to see the AppConnect numbers tomorrow. Hopefully my app get's some downloads. Will share the results here. 🙏🏻🚀

[Marc Hildmann @Hilti]

@PrometheusCodes Thank you! You made my day 😃🤘🏻 I bought a SGI Indigo 2 a few years ago just to get the look and feel of the IRIX 6.5

[Marc Hildmann @Hilti]

@geooot_ I'm not 100% sure about this. I avoided the issue entirely by only using permissively licensed deps. The amazing Dear ImGui by @ocornut is MIT licensed. Same goes for DuckDB @duckdb