LynxDigitalStudios

Building simple apps that people actually enjoy using. Creator of Into the Void, SofaPick & LateReg. No hype—just shipping, learning and improving

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Welcome to Lynx Digital Studios.

Building Android apps.

🧠 Into the Void
Anonymous thoughts.
No ads. No subscriptions.
https://t.co/GSGIKSWCdx

♠️ LateReg
Poker tournament companion.
https://t.co/ioHeVuPW0Q

🎬 SofaPick
Find something worth watching.
https://t.co/kK9GFSvUPa

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Movie-night democracy has entered its final form: everyone rejects suggestions, nobody offers one.

Who gets the deciding vote in your house?

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Episode ends on a cliffhanger.

“We can't stop there.”

The writers would like to thank you for your cooperation.

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Before an MTT session, what's the easier admin mistake to make?

A) leaving yesterday's reminder enabled
B) forgetting to enable today's

The calendar giveth. The calendar pingeth.

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Film for one tonight. Family watch tomorrow. Different brief, same sofa.

SofaPick uses type, mood and audience to help find a recommendation that fits the evening.

Set tonight's brief:
https://t.co/kK9GFSvUPa

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AI-generated Android UI:
the button fits beautifully.

Phone font size: Large.
Button: “Save tournam…”

The emulator is not the entire audience.

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Sunday's tournament plan looks excellent on Friday.

Sunday's actual calendar has discovered a family lunch, a delivery window and the fact that laundry exists.

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They slept through the middle hour of the film and woke up to ask why the ending made no sense.

An unusually demanding review process.

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The tournament schedule doesn't know you're making dinner.

LateReg lets you set start and late-registration reminders, so the timing isn't another thing to keep in your head.

Give the clock its own job:
https://t.co/ioHeVuPW0Q

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Tournament schedule: 19:00.
Your calendar: 19:00.
The lobby: a different time zone.

Nothing like a maths quiz before a poker session.

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Subtitles appear.
Someone opens the loudest bag of crisps ever manufactured.

Movie night has added a reading test and a percussion section.

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The traditional indie-app debugging setup:

one app
three tabs explaining the error
a fourth tab explaining why the first three disagree

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A nice milestone for Lynx Digital Studios.

I recently joined the Open Journal podcast to talk about Into the Void, why I built it, and the thinking behind the app.

🎧 Listen here:
https://t.co/RUsMHoCcnb

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Movie night has reached the “read the synopsis out loud and watch everyone’s face” stage.

SofaPick helps narrow the choice before diplomacy collapses.

On Google Play:
https://t.co/kK9GFSvUPa

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Software development is mostly convincing one bug to leave without giving it your forwarding address.

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You spot a tournament just before late reg closes and rewrite history: this was definitely always part of the plan.

LateReg keeps the timing visible before the improvisation.

Android:
https://t.co/ioHeVuPW0Q

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Streaming bill: up.

Number of things everyone agrees to watch: unchanged.

An impressively expensive stalemate.

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Indie app development:

Build the feature.
Test the feature.
Take every screenshot.
Notice the button is two pixels off.
Start again.

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AI: fixed it.

Me: lovely.

Android Studio: would you like to see the new collection of warnings?

We may be using different definitions of fixed.

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The tournament starts at 7.

Late reg closes later.

Your reminder says “poker sometime”.

LateReg was built for a slightly more useful version of organised.

Google Play:
https://t.co/ioHeVuPW0Q

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The film is 2 hours 7 minutes.

Person who chose it: “That’s basically two hours.”

Person who has work tomorrow: absolutely not.