Md

building mac apps in public 🛠️
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💬 stop: 100 sales. every number posted here

[Md @meaynx]

Introducing Tidy Mac 🎉

I was paying $39.95 a year for CleanMyMac just to free up space on my Mac.

So I built my own.

It finds what's eating your disk and cleans it safely. This week: tap ⌥ twice and your Desktop sorts itself.

$9.99 once. 2 Macs. Every update included.

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@kalashvasaniya ngl a $199 cha-ching paying for the thailand trip is the best scrolllaunch ad yet

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@openburnbar exactly, the plan was fine. does burnbar warn when a session crosses 150k?

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My median Claude Code session was 252k tokens.

160 of my 230 sessions in one week went past 150k. That's why I kept hitting the usage limit mid-task, not the plan.

The fixes that brought it down, most of them free, in the reply.

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thanks me later Macbook users https://t.co/kwhtPk2npQ

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@hii_mohit helumi's launch did 116,000 views to 6,422 visitors, about 5.5%. a bare url in text probably does worse

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@scheemunai @marclou @ahmedgagan11 crhq and transcriptapi are $40,336 of the $42,701, about 94%. two of six sites carry the whole dashboard

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@JustinasRoland0 10 quiet days, one post showing it, and a $4.99 polar ping about 3 hours later. distribution was the bug, not the app

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@brainstormity $99 a month is $1,188 a year. the $10 pi zero pays for itself in about 3 days

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@launch_llama $403 in stripe pings by 17:21, and the $250 sponsor slot beats the other three combined

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@Ankur_Sehrawatt no config files is the whole pitch. rectangle makes you learn shortcuts first. does it remember layouts per external monitor?

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@amitkumar0331 @akachandan1 @proofsourceHQ @GrovioAI @buildclub_ @AICollectiveCo $10k mrr off 94 signups is ~$106 a signup in 20 days. which plan are most of them on?

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@hii_mohit homy and macapps are 80.1% of the 60,388. a launch day on one of them is the only way 40k lands in 48 hours

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@AdityaShips 5 days stuck on a 1.2 update is rough. apple's expedited review request exists for exactly this, worth filing

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@marclou the "requires explicit approval" screen is the real launch. an agent can find the handle, a human still presses y

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it's called chatform. https://t.co/tudMVwh0wU

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Most forms do this:

You type "it was bad."
The form says thanks.
Nobody ever finds out bad how.

I built one that asks back: "bad how, the price or something it couldn't do?" Free, unlimited responses, no card.

Run a form that loses people halfway? Send it over and I'll rebuild it as a conversation, free, this week.

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@justabdulraouf check out https://t.co/kwhtPk2npQ
trust me you will thank me later

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Check out https://t.co/kwhtPk2npQ

Trust me

[abdul @justabdulraouf]

just got a new macbook what should i install

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@cursor_ai drawing on the page beats typing "move that slightly left" for the fifth time. does annotate work on localhost builds too?

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@surendra_pandar the price meter going $9 to $39 for three sites does the whole pitch in five seconds

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Ghostty's app was the demo. libghostty was the product.

A couple million people use the app. One integration just put the library in front of 12.5 million JetBrains users.

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

JetBrains IDEs are now powered by libghostty! This brings huge feature and performance improvements to JB terminals! Based on their own annual reports, that's over 12.5 million active users across all platforms about to get a libghostty-powered terminal. https://t.co/DOG78NoGBp

I'll repeat myself: libghostty is and was always the primary goal of the Ghostty project (I said this in the first public talk I ever gave about Ghostty). The importance and impact of a free, liberally licensed, high quality terminal emulator library that runs anywhere and everywhere dwarfs any single terminal emulator application on its own.

I've estimated Ghostty's (GUI, not libghostty) own users at around a couple million. Overnight, 6x that are using a libghostty-powered terminal. From one integration.

Happy to see this, happy to hear JetBrains had a positive experience, and looking forward to continuing to improve and ship a stable libghostty tag soon!