Ruberg Dev

Building apps in public.
Senior Product Manager → Solo Developer.
AI • iOS • Startups.
Sharing every launch, win & failure

[Ruberg Dev @RubergDev]

Finally HomeSheltr is out! Need help to get controll over your disaster storage? I got you 👌🏼

[Ruberg Dev @RubergDev]

I told myself I should stop starting new projects.
So naturally, I started a new one today.
RouteMate is on pause for now.
The new idea is a family organizer / planning app.
Calendars, tasks, routines, shared planning.
Basically all the stuff that becomes messy when several people need to stay in sync.

No idea yet if this one will turn into something people want.

But I already know I want it myself.

[Ruberg Dev @RubergDev]

What's the app idea you keep thinking about...

but haven't built yet?

[Ruberg Dev @RubergDev]

@iamvishal16_ios Sleeping on it is a good filter! Mant ideas are not so good the morning after

[Ruberg Dev @RubergDev]

One unexpected side effect of learning to build apps:

My Notes app is becoming dangerous.

Every annoying little problem is now:

“Could this be an app?”

Most ideas are probably terrible.

The problem is they all sound brilliant for the first 24 hours.

[Ruberg Dev @RubergDev]

@Priyanka_093 @JonBuildsHQ For now it´s money, this isen´t my fulltime job yet so will need to mange by myself for a while

[Ruberg Dev @RubergDev]

Sunday schedule:
- Family time
- Watch City game, then Newcastle - Pool
- Work on business while watching games
- Relax

Balance is everything. Family will always come first, then everything else. Remember to touch some grass 😊

[Ruberg Dev @RubergDev]

@kedytcom Looks like we had the same idea:
https://t.co/Bi0cYCi0da

- iOS apps
- $1 bump to take the lead

[Ruberg Dev @RubergDev]

Something changed after my first person paid for Botkassa.

Not financially.

One customer obviously doesn't change anything there.

But mentally?

It changed a lot.

A stranger decided something I built solved a problem well enough to pay for it.

Now I don't really care about customer #100 yet.

I want to understand how to get customer #2-3-4-5.

[Ruberg Dev @RubergDev]

A couple of weeks ago a friend of mine asked me how I built apps with ai. He had no experience, so I needed to explain it in simple terms. That´s why I made this article. https://t.co/MQ0JwNBbVw

[Ruberg Dev @RubergDev]

I know these bid sites is all over X at the moment. But really thought one app would pay $3 to outbid my two apps 😁

Guess not

[Ruberg Dev @RubergDev]

Appwar is live ⚔️

The public app leaderboard is now open.

Want the top spot? Buy it for $1 more than the current leader.
Every takeover costs exactly $1 more. No estimates. No bidding wars. Just one dollar at a time.

Claim #1: https://t.co/mZbxRCTg2n

[Ruberg Dev @RubergDev]

Will this be as popular? No
But it was fun to see what I could make in a day, I had never used Stripe before.

But it was fun to se what I could make in a day and I learned a lot. Had never used Stripe or Resend, now I know both

[Ruberg Dev @RubergDev]

Appwar is live ⚔️

The public app leaderboard is now open.

Want the top spot? Buy it for $1 more than the current leader.
Every takeover costs exactly $1 more. No estimates. No bidding wars. Just one dollar at a time.

Claim #1: https://t.co/mZbxRCTg2n

[Ruberg Dev @RubergDev]

Yes I got the idea and copyed most of @jonathan_wilke https://t.co/CTfmlnS7ZZ that got a massive movement.

But I went a different route, this is Apple App Store apps only. Add your app store link, metadata is fetched and everything is ready in seconds. Add your X name for futher reach.

Set amount to pay, $1 more then the top spot.

[Ruberg Dev @RubergDev]

This is becoming a dangerous habit.
I encounter a small problem.

I think:
“Surely there’s an app for this.”

Five minutes later:
“…I could probably build this.”

That’s basically how Botkassa started.

I was sitting in Excel trying to keep track of small fines and payments, and it quickly turned into a mess. I just wanted a simple way to register them and share the overview with the group without overcomplicating things.

So now I'm building it, got paying customers and really enjoy developing the app.

[Ruberg Dev @RubergDev]

What system do you use to analyze the use of your app? And how do you track errors? Posthog, sentry etc?

[Ruberg Dev @RubergDev]

@pfernan95dev Yeah thats right.
I’m working on an article thats describing what everything does in an easy way. Hopefully someone starting up can have use of it 😁

[Ruberg Dev @RubergDev]

What confused me most when I started app development wasn't the code.

It was figuring out what everything actually did.

Expo?
Supabase?
Vercel?
Xcode?
Once I understood how the pieces fit together, everything became much easier.

[Ruberg Dev @RubergDev]

A few months ago, my goal was simple:

Learn how to build an app.
Now I have three apps live and another one in development.
And somehow I feel like I know less than when I started.
Because every problem I solve reveals another one.

Coding → distribution.
Downloads → retention.
Users → paying customers.

Turns out shipping the app just unlocks the next level.

[Ruberg Dev @RubergDev]

@kr0der Congratulations!

Keep em coming👌🏼