Justin Poh

currntly ios dev at apple developer academy in bali

building tiny apps from a lapop

stuck on what to build?

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@pggalaviz so underrated. advice from people selling to founders works for founders. who gives the best growth advice for consumer apps imo?

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@ManraiSingh every duck drawn one rectangle at a time is commitment 😭 how's performance once the whole town is on screen?

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@tahsindesign0 the ones that show the result in the first screenshot always win. caption on top or bottom for u?

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@CarlosBBuild didn't know Apple shipped Duo frames already, that saves an afternoon of mockup fiddling. do they come in both orientations?

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@Anoyroyc agreed, people love weighing in on an open decision more than clapping for a finished screen. what's the decision ur stuck on rn?

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@withAnimationUI the little resistance at the edge is such a nice touch. is that a custom DragGesture or built on top of the native Slider?

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@ramxcodes the biggest one i see is only posting wins. the zero-download days get way more real replies. which mistake on ur list is the most common?

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8 months at the Apple Developer Academy in Bali 🇮🇩

still remember getting the acceptance email and wondering if i was actually going to do this.

take a leave of absence from uni, move to bali for almost a year, leave behind everything familiar just to see what i could build.

at that point, i didn't even know if i was making the right decision.

fast forward 8 months, i've shipped my own app, spent countless nights debugging, met people from completely different walks of life, and learnt things i probably never would've picked up in a classroom.

some days were frustrating, some days i questioned what i was even doing here. but somewhere along the way, i started becoming the person i wanted to be when i first applied.

looking at this ID card now, i'm really glad i took that chance.

if you're thinking of applying to the apple developer academy, feel free to ask me anything. happy to share :)

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don't copy Strava.

steal the job it does:
Strava → "prove to my friends i actually showed up"

3 ways to do that job differently:
1. a language streak app where 3 friends see u did ur 10 min
2. a gym check-in widget for one group chat. no feed, no ads
3. an "i shipped today" log for indie devs, one screenshot a day

which app would u steal the job from?

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@KingEmmaDev felt this, apple blocked my AI app update in china too, over metadata not code. pulling china mainland is the right call to unblock. hope the resubmit flies through 🤞

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@InkRose98 with this many games out there, "not picked" usually says more about publisher slots than the game. have u tried smaller publishers that focus on ur exact genre?

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@KyleBehrend congrats on getting the first one live! "one little thing a day" is a nice tight scope. how long from idea to App Store?

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@PaulSolt a rejection that makes the app better is the best kind. what reason did they give for the Duo version?

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@eliana_jordan area matters so much here. canggu, ubud and sanur feel like different countries. which one did u live in?

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@sahilmalhotraco $0 for 3 months and still pushing is the part nobody posts. what changed between month 3 and now that got it moving?

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@hispanicnomad 2017 bali and now are different islands, canggu especially. traffic is still the honest downside tho. coming back to work from here?

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@LukeDownie5 posting the 0s on day 14 is the real build in public. what's the app? curious what u'll show first once it's approved

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@yulikay bali at #3 tracks. rent swings a lot between canggu, ubud and the quieter areas tho. which area were u in?

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@lenatron33 it feels like it was built by a team that never has to ship an app. which part gets u most, screenshots or the build processing wait?

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@pritesh_ghodge good reminder. "it's just a hard-to-guess url" is how invoices leak. signed urls with short expiry should be the default for anything private