Theo Goodman

@HalfLemons - Find recipes for your ingredients.⠀
- Automated release notes.⠀
Serial builder. Serial killer of house plants.

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Apple named my app @HalfLemons App of the Day. Here's what happened to my downloads: 📈
- 10k on day 1
- 16.5k over the week
- 3 weeks of elevated downloads from referrals
- Eventually settled down at a new, slightly-higher baseline

Here's how it went down 🧵

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@BenjaminHouy Sadly true. The greatness is still around. Just in smaller pockets. Have to tune out the noise and be picky about your follows

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I was told recently that I’m a great example of the adage “1st time founders focus on product, 2nd time founders focus on distribution”. It’s the nicest thing anyone’s ever said to me

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@Shpigford shut up and take my money

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@adamlyttleapps I’ve got one! And I’d happily share it with you, but not all of Twitter :/

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@Shpigford Make one and try to sell it

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@sm Breaking the hearts of boy dads everywhere

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@daniel_nguyenx @fatbobman strongly second this. @fatbobman is who I turn to for the deep, thorny swifty needs

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@adamlyttleapps I really enjoy your writing. Your honesty. The fact that you're not shy about the failures. Life isn't one endless stream of successes.

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Why are all the product analytics tools so hard to use? Like, all of them.

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Anyone else noticed how 4.7 opus is way, way more verbose? Get's bogged down in details much too easily. The ol claude.md needs a re-write.

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@Shpigford Completely turnkey. Clients can offer your product to their employees with the click of a button. No technical integration needed. No engineering resources of any kind.

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The only way to keep ai dev in check is to make it explain changes to you simply. Basically all the top tools still struggle at this. It's super difficult.

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@Shpigford @SuperFanToys a pizza pie! maybe pepperoni

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@joelgascoigne Great approach Joel! I find myself enjoying hearing your thought processes. On this topic and several others you’ve shared.

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@Shpigford This happened to me in Jan. Took a few days, but eventually heard back from GH Support, and got my account unlocked. They chalked it up to security measures in response to bot traffic. Whatever. I immediately created new GH accts and granted them access to all my critical stuff

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It seems like all the indies I follow are shipping like mad. 10x what they used to. I wonder, are their revenues growing 10x also?

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The ai hype is reaching fever pitch levels. Maybe it’s the new Twitter algo overdoing it with ai content. Is everyone seeing this?

It’s completely taken over my feed. I’m not loving it

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@Dimillian Got to pick an intentionally open ended problem. Then watch how they go about it. Tricky to pull off, as a hiring mgr. But probably end up with one of the strongest and most reliable signals of engineering talent out there today.

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@GTrushevskiy @Dimillian what are the big tells? elaborate on that if you please!