Ivan

Solo indie dev at Potato Battery Games. Shipped 3 games Q4 2025. Casual & mobile games. Next: Colony Rush strategy. Devlogs, playtests & fun from Munich.

[Ivan @potato_log]

“Just ship it” is terrible advice if you can’t count. Retention. Budget. Unit economics. Skip the math and congrats, you’re now losing money at scale. 🎉

[Ivan @potato_log]

Hey @logto_io, I completely fell in love with your product from the first encounter. The documentation is amazing, easily the best onboarding experience.
One small downside: your React Native Expo SDK has outdated dependencies and no activity on GitHub (there are PRs, but no one to merge them). Please take a look 🙏

[Ivan @potato_log]

Got the first users on Pickle Picker. Interesting insights and early growing pains. The cookie banner blocks interaction in a non obvious way, and a few elements look interactive but are not. Will be fixing this.

[Ivan @potato_log]

@orcdev 👀

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Only in Germany, when you switch to winter tires, they remind you of the speed limit of your tires, not just the road

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Would you rather sell your startup for $5m now or keep building with a chance at $100m in 5 years?

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Marketing is tough, they said. Google Ads just wouldn’t let me register an account at all, and Microsoft Ads slapped me with a strike right after launching my very first campaign. Well, no accounts, no problems.

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Welcome to 2026

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Hex Mixer has overtaken Chapeau Shuffle in downloads just a couple of weeks after launch 🎨🧩

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@andi_losing This is what a tax return deadline approaching looks like 😄

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New icon for Hex Mixer. WDYT?

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What should I do first after installing Visual Studio (not Code)?

[Ivan @potato_log]

Lost 10 followers in a single day, I guess some bots just dropped off. How do you handle it so they don’t end up following you in the first place?

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Would you rather be famous for something embarrassing or unknown for something amazing?

[Ivan @potato_log]

“To be in a pickle” means to be stuck in a difficult, awkward, or tricky situation where it’s hard to see the right way out

[Ivan @potato_log]

Christmas is coming, which means interest in this topic is rising in search queries. We’ve added themed events to our games to get a bit of organic traffic. How do you prepare for seasonal moments like this?

[Ivan @potato_log]

Managed to get through moderation before the Christmas holidays with my new game Hex Mixer! If you enjoy doing sums in hexadecimal... give it a try 😄

[Ivan @potato_log]

My second game on the Apple App Store! No ads or in-app purchases, just gaining experience. Built with React Native, with simple graphics because I’m not a designer. https://t.co/yuG6nQlPXC

[Ivan @potato_log]

In the new Safari 26.2 version, they’ve brought in new bugs. @Apple, are you okay? Patch releases are usually supposed to fix bugs, not add new ones🥲

[Ivan @potato_log]

We’ve launched three games on the Amazon Appstore this quarter, and they’re currently in moderation on Apple and Google Play as well. What a productive quarter, and even more releases are ahead!