Ivan Martinac

Solo entrepreneur, developer of Watch your Biz, tracking metrics from your Google Sheets on iPhone and Apple Watch widgets

[Ivan Martinac @IvanMartinac]

Available now at the AppStore 🎉

[Watch your Biz @watch_your_biz]

Track your business metrics from your Google Sheets to a Widget

https://t.co/ZeJJQ4NgKz

[Ivan Martinac @IvanMartinac]

@svpino La route est longue, bon courage !

[Ivan Martinac @IvanMartinac]

@JoPetric @Polymarket It’s also concerning that they’re able to identify unique users and their questions, to be able to pull up these stats.

[Ivan Martinac @IvanMartinac]

@domagojbu Of course I’d like to. I have some time tomorrow. DM me if you prefer.

[Ivan Martinac @IvanMartinac]

@domagojbu What kind of feedback would be useful to you? I guess the sole analysis report is not enough, you need some qualitative notes to detect false positives or negatives.

[Domagoj @domagojbu]

Any iOS dev open to try out my new accessibility tool? Idea is to make your SwiftUI app fully accessible in few clicks

[Ivan Martinac @IvanMartinac]

@saradietschy This is by design, they want you to stay in the app.

Copy the address? You want to leave.

Share a link to Google Maps keeps you captive.

[Ivan Martinac @IvanMartinac]

@JoPetric 1 & 4: why not, but your brand is not yet strong enough to be recognized by a single letter
3: hard to read as a single word
2: my choice, the colored last letter adding a little twist attracting the eye

[Ivan Martinac @IvanMartinac]

@JoPetric Early mornings also work better for me. It’s quiet and I have more energy than after work.

Some prefer late nights. It has to fit your day habits to be sustainable.

[Ivan Martinac @IvanMartinac]

@JoPetric The number doesn’t matter obviously, keep up with the good work!

[Damjan Dabo @DamjanDabo]

Would anyone be interested in a small indie SaaS conference on Pag, an island in sunny Croatia?

Talks during the day, the afterparty on Zrće beach at night.

[Ivan Martinac @IvanMartinac]

@DamjanDabo I’ll be pretty close to Pag this summer, it would be hard to find an excuse not to come.

[Edward Sanchez @edwardsanchez]

I made Tinkerble, an open source macOS companion app for live-tinkering properties in your SwiftUI app.

Just replace any @State with @TinkerbleState, then adjust strings, numbers, colors, toggles, and enums live.

https://t.co/Q5w2b7smcc

[Ivan Martinac @IvanMartinac]

@HowToAI_ This will eventually be part of every IDE or at least available as a plugin.

Dev. environments already have a level of graph view of the code, this publishes it as an MCP.

[Klemens 👨‍💻Art of Fauna Season 2 @klemensstrasser]

Story time about the emotional rollercoaster called the Apple Design Awards! 📚

Exactly one year ago, I was in Italy when I got a call from my Apple Partnership Manager. They told me:

"You know the drill. Art of Fauna is a finalist for the Apple Design Award in Inclusivity. But unfortunately again, it did NOT WIN."

When they hung up, I was left excited, but also disappointed. I knew the drill because it was actually my third time being a finalist in Inclusivity. I was one in 2022 and 2023 with my games "Letter Rooms" and "Ancient Board Game Collection" respectively.

And Art of Fauna was objectively my best shot yet. I felt like if this is not going to win an ADA, nothing out of my feather ever will. So for then next 10 minutes, I was more disappointed than I probably should have been.

And then I got a second call. Again, it was my Apple Partnership Manager. And they said:

"I was wrong there with the category. You are not a finalist in Inclusivity. You are a finalist in Social Impact".
And then they paused.
"But you've won in Inclusivity".

And I can't even find words to describe how that felt. Two nominations, one win for Art of Fauna. And to understand this fully, you have to know more context.

In 2015, I won the student Apple Design Award with Elementary Minute. But the student ADA was never held to the same standards as the regular one. But back then, this same Apple Partnership Manager told me "One day, you are going to win the real thing".

And now, 10 years later, right before this person was about to retire - They told me that I have really won the *real thing*. You always dream about things like this to happen, but its insane when they really do.

And as we were in Italy, me and my now fiancé sat down to celebrate with a drink. And this is how this picture happened.

Thanks for reading 🫶

[Ivan Martinac @IvanMartinac]

@austnstuff I’m building an app getting you business metrics from Google Sheets or Airtable and puts indicators on widgets to track them.
It’s called Watch your Biz

[Ivan Martinac @IvanMartinac]

@vponamariov It’s a remnant of the time when you had to remember your password and certainly not write it down somewhere. Same reason you had to type it twice.

I agree it has to go.

[Ivan Martinac @IvanMartinac]

Privacy is better when you remove intermediaries.

Here, only your phone and Google Sheets or Airtable are involved, no external servers.

[Watch your Biz @watch_your_biz]

Before connecting any tool to Google Sheets or Airtable, ask: where do your credentials go?

Watch Your Biz keeps them in your phone Keychain. Data flows directly between your phone and Sheets/Airtable. No WYB server stores your access.

True privacy 🔑

[Ivan Martinac @IvanMartinac]

@klemensstrasser @PocketShelfApp I can do French!