Pablo

Building small iOS and Mac apps.
→ Respira: 2k users, pollen allergy tracker
→ ASO for iOS apps
→ clean your Mac

[Pablo @pfernan95dev]

Your $99 Apple developer account is the most underrated free tier:

• Xcode Cloud: 25 compute hours a month of CI/CD
• CloudKit: up to 1 PB of free iCloud storage per app
• Background Assets: 200 GB of Apple-hosted downloads
• WeatherKit: 500K calls a month
• TestFlight: 10,000 external testers
• Foundation Models: an on-device LLM, no API keys
• Small Business Program: 15% commission instead of 30%

most indie devs pay for half of this somewhere else.

[Pablo @pfernan95dev]

small utility app, built solo. how do you charge:

a) $5 once
b) $1 a month

I believe one time purchases are underrated af

[Pablo @pfernan95dev]

What's the oldest side project you still maintain?

And what's the real reason you haven't shut it down?

[Pablo @pfernan95dev]

what you keep from a $10 sale, per each platform's published rates:

• app store, small business program (15%): $8.50
• app store, standard (30%): $7.00
• stripe (2.9% + 30¢, US card): $9.41
• paddle (5% + 50¢): $9.00
• lemon squeezy (5% + 50¢): $9.00
• gumroad direct (10% + 50¢): $8.50

stripe leaves you the biggest cut, but sales tax and VAT are on you. paddle, lemon squeezy and gumroad act as merchant of record and handle it.

[Pablo @pfernan95dev]

@farrux_hewson That's my point

[Pablo @pfernan95dev]

There comes a time when you have to stop milking your audience 😢

[Marc Lou @marclou]

Higgsfield gave me $100,000 to realize my dream:

A hackathon where participants build a real business, not just an app.

So... Introducing The $100K Hackathon:
🏴‍☠️ https://t.co/nHDJ5Qruhu 🏴‍☠️

It starts on November 16, and you'll have 30 days to build a startup and make it profitable. The prizes:

🥇 $100,000
🥈 iPhone Duo
🥉 MacBook Neo

This is not a joke. The winner will get $100,000 in cash.

To win, you must:

1. Start a completely new business on Nov 16
2. Build a digital product (SaaS, directory, etc.)
3. Make the most profit (not revenue)

You can already register at $99. When the hackathon starts on Nov 16, you can still join for $149.

I'm running this with my dear friend @jackfriks, and we'll manually review each potential winner to make sure everything holds up.

See you on November 16, builders 🏴‍☠️🫡

[Pablo @pfernan95dev]

@mubeenchatthaa It should be free. Simple. Not a subscription to a $150/mo SaaS😂

[Pablo @pfernan95dev]

claude code's official plugin marketplace now has an xcode plugin. author: Apple Inc.

it builds, runs tests, renders SwiftUI previews, drives the simulator.

next feature:
a) let the agent run build and test
b) keep it in xcode by hand

A for build errors. B for anything UI.

[Pablo @pfernan95dev]

@builtbygomez posting the same clip to all three is cheap, so it's worth testing. each platform will tell you pretty fast which one your audience lives on.

[Pablo @pfernan95dev]

3 days later and it's still going.
Before the reel: ~8 new users a day.
Since: 95, 74, 30, and 27 so far today.
~90% from Australia, right in the middle of their grass pollen season. Timing did half the work.

[Pablo @pfernan95dev]

Seems like my last reel on instagram made the job, always keep working!

[Pablo @pfernan95dev]

@helloshiva0801 those are the usual suspects, and the caches from claude code and cursor add up too. i made attic, a menu bar app that finds that leftover junk and lets you clear it.

[Pablo @pfernan95dev]

@lazyjakee the late year spike is striking. was that a featured placement, a price test, or mainly seasonal traffic?

[Pablo @pfernan95dev]

@NdemoKelvin @AppleSupport @Apple three days with a launch tomorrow is tight. listry was in review for 16 days. if you haven't already, request an expedited review on apple's contact page, it's under app review.

[Pablo @pfernan95dev]

@anumness those two free trials next to an $11 lifetime make the paid option easy to skip. have you tried showing the lifetime price as what the monthly plan costs over a year?

[Pablo @pfernan95dev]

@MariusBongarts congrats on the iphone version. did review treat the share extension as its own thing, or did it go through with the main app?

[Pablo @pfernan95dev]

@jryankennedy does telemetrydeck show you search terms and impressions, or do you still jump to app store connect for that?

[Pablo @pfernan95dev]

@andreacasali does undo snapshot the php version and the files, or only the project directory? curious how you isolate each site.

[Pablo @pfernan95dev]

@appleinsider @MalcolmOwen does it start measuring the walk only after you park, or does it also learn your usual walk from that lot?

[Pablo @pfernan95dev]

@joswr1ght does this survive a slack restart? a lot of defaults get overwritten the next time the app launches.

[Pablo @pfernan95dev]

@AppleMagazine does safari dark mode follow the system appearance, or is it a separate per-site toggle? wondering if wkwebview apps have to opt in.

[Pablo @pfernan95dev]

@huang_jca day 2 is still early, listry needed 16 days before it moved. once you pass two weeks, the expedited review request on apple's contact page is the one that helps.