Giannis Pinakoulakis

Building apps since 2010. Backend by trade, back on iOS since 2025. Now: Grabie (restaurant POS) + freelancing. I share what ships and what breaks.

[Giannis Pinakoulakis @ipinak]

Built my first iOS app in 2010.

Then a master’s, a switch to backend, and years off iOS.

Last year I came back. now I’m building Grabie (a restaurant POS) with a co-founder, shipping iOS apps solo, and freelancing.

Posting new learnings and what past taught me.

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@ghz86 Congrats on taking Anvi to Android. Did you rebuild it natively or share code with the iOS app.

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@schkovl @SergiuszBuilds Yes I know it’s a heads up for the engine though.

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@gkovedaros It’s irrelevant I guess or is it not?

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@madoutech Yes indeed some of them have become very annoying.

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@gkovedaros εγω ��κομα προσπαθω να καταλαβω τι κανει αυτο το πραγμα

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@SergiuszBuilds I'm testing if this matters or changes anything, I have a marketing website for a few apps and no site for the others (just a generic one for the privacy policy).

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@mayankgulaty Nice comparison. Is the now-playing text in Faders coming from the stream's own metadata, or from a separate station API?

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@HildelPete32806 Yes, I was just talking about this with a friend of mine. He received the reply today. I suggested to comply because it's impossible to argue with them.

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2K downloads, €0.02 from AdMob since launch.

Is that a broken ads setup, or just what 2K downloads looks like?

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@mpetyx 😱🥶

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@mayankgulaty Oh that's nice. I've noticed that the review times differ a lot between my apps. Some take way too long, others complete in a day or two.

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@HildelPete32806 I haven't looked at the SDK yet for Duo, but I guess it's time👍

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@iraftopo It's straight to 90 actually. I would love a discount for a yearly plan, but it's not available.

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@ghz86 I started doing the same literally last week, it's way more efficient and most importantly you get the right size of screenshots without third part software. Cool!

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@JamieDevelops Are you leaning on paywall experiments or on getting more people to the app first to reach it? Curious which one you think is the bottleneck.

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@TooFarButJustIn Nice idea. How are you detecting the notch area, and what happens on Macs without one?