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[Torstein @tskulbru]

Linetris is live on the App Store. One puzzle. Every player. Same grid. Daily. Place Tetris-like pieces on an 8x8 grid, clear lines, and compete on the global leaderboard.

Like Wordle, but for people who love clearing lines.
#buildinpublic #ios #indiedev
https://t.co/ViKYSGMVLE

[Torstein @tskulbru]

🎉 MyVisualRoutine is live on Google Play!

Visual schedules, choice boards & First/Then boards for families with autism, ADHD, and communication challenges.

✅ 50+ preloaded activities
✅ Works offline
✅ No account needed
✅ 14-day free trial

https://t.co/NQ9R7DRWdA

[Torstein @tskulbru]

@quatermain32 already starred ;)

[Torstein @tskulbru]

Most of my best features started as bug reports.

"This doesn't work the way I expected."

Usually it's working as designed — but their expectation was better than my design.

That gap is where the real product lives.

What "bug" became your best feature?

[Torstein @tskulbru]

Your biggest competitor isn't another app. It's a spreadsheet. A notebook. A sticky note on the fridge.

Your app isn't replacing a competitor — it's replacing a workaround.

The answer is never "more features." It's less friction.

What workaround did an app replace for you?

[Torstein @tskulbru]

The most impactful tools don't do the most — they show up at the right moment and ask you to do one small thing.

Stand up. Take a breath. Check in.

Tiny daily nudges reshape everything.

What small habit changed your life?

[Torstein @tskulbru]

I'm running a 4-week live course on agentic coding. I don't write code anymore — I instruct AI to do it. Now I'm teaching you how.

Starts April 24. $299.

https://t.co/YdPnAMOIPO

#AgenticCoding #ClaudeCode #AI #BuildWithAI

[Torstein @tskulbru]

A friend asked why I keep building apps for small markets.

Honest answer: the thank-you messages hit different.

"This changed our morning routine" or "I finally feel safe recording" — that's not a vanity metric. That's the whole point.

Small audience, real impact.

[Torstein @tskulbru]

Indie dev tip that changed everything for me:

Ship when it's 80% ready.

The last 20% of polish takes 80% of the time — and half of it won't matter to your first users anyway.

Real feedback beats another week of "just one more thing."

What's your shipping threshold?

[Torstein @tskulbru]

Hot take: the best apps I've used lately all do fewer things, not more.

There's something powerful about a tool that says "this is what I do" and does it really well — no feature creep, no settings rabbit holes.

Constraints force clarity.

What's a single-purpose app you love?

[Torstein @tskulbru]

One thing nobody talks about enough with solo dev: the silence between launches.

You ship, get a burst of energy, then it's just you and the code for weeks.

The fix isn't "find a cofounder." It's small rituals — walks, sharing progress, knowing when to close the laptop.

[ashen @ashen_one]

Places to post your app and get real users (free):

1. Product Hunt
2. Hacker News (Show HN)
3. Reddit
4. Indie Hackers
5. BetaList
6. Uneed
7. Peerlist
8. DevHunt
9. There's An AI For That
10. Futurepedia
11. AI Toolbox
12. Toolify
13. Ben's Bites
14. The Rundown AI
15. MicroLaunch

I know this is a huge list, so don't you dare do it. Have your Agent do every single one of these for you.

[Torstein @tskulbru]

Something I keep relearning: the people who need your app most are often the least technical.

They don't care about your architecture. They just need it to work — instantly, obviously, silently.

Best compliment I've gotten: "I didn't have to think."

How do you test for that?

[Torstein @tskulbru]

Started doing short-form video marketing. No trackable links — just "search for my app."

Downloads went up. Analytics can't explain why.

Best I can do is spot the trend shifts in https://t.co/hWgN0XDKoN and trust the process.

Anyone else flying blind on attribution?

[Torstein @tskulbru]

Linetris #23 (Extreme)
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https://t.co/ViKYSGMVLE

[Torstein @tskulbru]

Accessibility isn't a feature you bolt on at the end. It's a lens you design through from day one.

→ Test with VoiceOver early, not after launch
→ Larger tap targets help everyone
→ If your UI needs a tutorial, it's too complex

What accessibility wins have surprised you?

[Torstein @tskulbru]

Linetris #20 (Medium)
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https://t.co/ViKYSGMVLE

[Torstein @tskulbru]

I vibecode a lot of apps and web saas. Tracking analytics across all of them is painful—traffic drops, ad effects, what needs attention?

So I built Plask. Anomaly detection and AI digests. Heres how I built it

https://t.co/8b8kSHXoQD

#buildinpublic #saas #analytics

[Torstein @tskulbru]

Coding as we know it has been solved. LLMs are the biggest shift since the printing press — not because they write perfect code, but because they've democratized the ability to build.

The barrier isn't "can you code?" anymore. It's "what do you want to build?"

[Torstein @tskulbru]

You shipped 3 apps this week. Do you know how any of them are doing?

Plask connects to Google Analytics and shows all your apps in one dashboard. AI tells you what changed and why.

Built for people who ship fast and don't have time to read charts.

https://t.co/hWgN0XDKoN

[Torstein @tskulbru]

Been thinking about building software for high-stakes moments.

When designing Mockingjay (secure video recorder), the core question wasn't "how do we add features?" — it was "what if the phone gets taken in 30 seconds?"

Changes how you think about UX.