Nomad

Solo entrepreneur trying to build my own apps next to my 9-5 job📱
MRR : 0$ 💸

[Nomad @the_nomad_code]

Flowmodoro. Work with your flow, not against it.

Forget rigid 25-minute blocks. Just start focusing. When you're done, the app figures out your break for you. That's it.

Cloud sync is FREE. You get stats to spot your best hours, daily goals, session history, and custom tags if you like to stay organized. Dark mode, tablet optimized, the whole thing.

Free to use. No account needed. There's a Pro if you want to nerd out with advanced analytics.

iOS + Android + iPad.
https://t.co/AvAcEcpkIi

[Nomad @the_nomad_code]

@theo mine started as 3 lines. now it's basically an incident log of every weird thing claude ever did to my flutter codebase. every rule in there has a story lol

[Nomad @the_nomad_code]

@ThePrimeagen my 'taste' these days is 'did the test pass and did the toddler stay asleep'. anything fancier feels like cope. please don't add 'intuition' to that list lol

[Nomad @the_nomad_code]

@dhh All the jobs are mine as a solo dev, trash included. But the pond is mine to pick. That's half the dream already.

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@dhh as a solo dev shipping a flutter focus timer next to a 9-5, claude code is half the reason my codebase exists. weekends after the toddler's asleep is when I unblock. the 'AI-assisted vs not' line is gonna be impossible to police the more we all use these tools.

[Nomad @the_nomad_code]

@dhh this is how I built my focus timer too. the 25 min pomodoro never fit my actual rhythm so I made one that adapts to mine. nobody asked for it. those are the apps I actually end up using.

[Nomad @the_nomad_code]

@theo honestly the bench delta matters less to me than whether it holds a long refactor without derailing. that's the axis solo devs actually feel. need to run 4.8 on real work before forming an opinion either way.h

[Nomad @the_nomad_code]

Solo dev morning: open the laptop, see the submit-for-review button, remember that actual humans will use this thing, close the laptop. Then my daughter wakes up. Saved by the toddler again lol

[Nomad @the_nomad_code]

@theo yeah the workflow shift is the bigger story. the way i scope a feature now barely resembles last year. solo dev brain finally has something to bounce off in real time lol

[Nomad @the_nomad_code]

@FlowHaa I basically divide by a factor of 5-6-7, it is up to you. The more you focus, the bigger break you deserve.

[Nomad @the_nomad_code]

Flowmodoro. Work with your flow, not against it.

Forget rigid 25-minute blocks. Just start focusing. When you're done, the app figures out your break for you. That's it.

Cloud sync is FREE. You get stats to spot your best hours, daily goals, session history, and custom tags if you like to stay organized. Dark mode, tablet optimized, the whole thing.

Free to use. No account needed. There's a Pro if you want to nerd out with advanced analytics.

iOS + Android + iPad.
https://t.co/AvAcEcpkIi

[Nomad @the_nomad_code]

@marclou lol ive done this dance. built something cool, looked at it, asked 'whos actually gonna use this' and shelved it. usually the right call tbh

[Nomad @the_nomad_code]

@dhh the bit about people reacting before theyve actually used the thing hits hard. ive burned whole weekends rewriting stuff off one beta testers drive-by comment. solo dev brain doesnt ride out anything lol

[Nomad @the_nomad_code]

My daughter just discovered the words "one more." One more bedtime story, one more snack, one more song. I now know exactly how my beta testers feel asking for "one more feature" lol

[Nomad @the_nomad_code]

Coding way too late last night and Claude literally stopped mid-task to tell me to go to sleep. We've officially reached the point where the AI cares more about my work life balance than I do lol

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@moinchanna already on testflight, nice. fair warning though, the jump from "testers are happy" to actually pressing publish on the store is a whole different kind of nervous lol. rooting for that $1k

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Solo dev weekend reality. I get maybe 40 min before my daughter wakes up, then nothing for hours, then a random 30 min once she's down. Whoever wrote that "block out 4 hours of deep work" advice clearly never had a toddler lol

[Nomad @the_nomad_code]

@SebastianRoehl the "momentum feeds discipline" bit really hit. my focus apps been feature complete for weeks and somehow NOT shipping it drags everything else down too. meanwhile you're pushing 1.5 and 1.5.1 back to back and im still psyching myself up to publish v1 lol. needed to read this

[Nomad @the_nomad_code]

People keep asking why I still build in Flutter solo. Honestly it's just hot reload. I tweak a layout and see it in like a second without losing where I am in the app. Came from native, still feels like cheating lol #Flutter #buildinpublic

[Nomad @the_nomad_code]

485 commits into my focus app and it's technically been "feature complete" for a few weeks now. You know whats still not done? Me actually hitting publish. The last 5% was never code, it's convincing myself its ready. solo dev brain lol

[Nomad @the_nomad_code]

@aruhamm @theo ha sure, flutter run launches it. but try debugging a pixel-off layout or poking around the widget tree from a bare terminal. thats the part i still open devtools for lol

[Nomad @the_nomad_code]

java.lang.NullPointerException

The most nostalgic error to me