Vadim Drobinin

Chasing waves and fermenting things.

Previously @EpsyHealth / $LIVN, @SphereMessenger (acquired by @x), @vkontakte.

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How do you localise colours in your projects?

As in, in mainland China red represents positive and green or black represents negative, while in Europe it's the opposite.

Apple's Stocks app respects that (left is for UK region, right is for Chinese):

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Spent the last few months analysing most of my online presence over the past 20 years - welp, there are good and bad news

https://t.co/Lz1BClYhc3

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I love @RevenueCat 's ARR/MRR widget, but wanted more metrics across all my apps - reviews, downloads, trends - so I built my own App Store Connect widgets, live in App Store today!

https://t.co/hhLDeMKJ2P

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Took me a while to do right, but now murmur showcases state-of-the-art accessibility throughout the app - from interaction methods like VoiceOver and Voice Control with custom rotors, to being more inclusive with Differentiate Without Color, to showing Captions for call practices

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@NSSpain legends 🍷

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I had the urge to learn Morse code after watching Copenhagen Test the other day, but all apps and tutorials felt boring and confusing.

So I built a modern take that teaches your Morse in 13 hours:

https://t.co/vLeAec9dW3

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Check out some of the magic I can do now though.

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I wanted to cook venison from scratch, which meant learning to shoot.

So I spent half a year collecting shot cardboard, porting a 2012 OpenCV paper and training a state-of-the-art computer vision model to run on-device.

https://t.co/twVsOOuWky

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Made an app to turn selfies into a personal AI stylist and thought I might as well launch it on Product Hunt:

https://t.co/8qaOPv93sE

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New day, new indie dev news: Google Ventures wrote about murmur in their latest column 🫡

https://t.co/QfpccJK54v

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murmur got featured in the App Store and ~3M views later I made a fortune (that is, $26)

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A few changes and the revenue QUADRUPLED in a week - if my math is mathing, we’re on track for unicorn status by late June

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Not sure why Apple censors my in-app event, but now my fermentation app has some new flair to it.

First time I see someone offended by the word "kraut", but here we are.

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This year’s side quest is making my way through all Canadian provinces - 4/10 done already ✅

Last year’s was reverse-engineering my gym to give it the Apple Wallet support it should’ve had in the first place.

Finally solving real-world problems:
https://t.co/W03SW5Ot3N

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One of those apps is Murmur: you pick a scenario, rehearse it with AI, and get feedback after.

I gave a sneak peek at @omaikasei's Raycafe in Vancouver last year, but since then it got into Apple's "Best New Apps", and today is launching on PH:

https://t.co/9CeGwOyBRx

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Haven't tweeted (posted? x-ed?) in about 3 years, so here's the recap: moved to Canada, went indie after five years in medtech, and have been shipping very niche iOS apps since.

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@webholt Браузерный, да (macOS + Chrome). Ну у меня скриншоты уже много лет сразу в буфер сохраняются, я бы заметил если бы не работало)

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@webholt Ээ твитдек всегда умел картинки из буфера вставлять, что в постах, что в реплаях

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@twannl Nothing shows on this page for me but I am enrolled in the program (got an email to confirm).

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Removing “Hey” from “Hey, Siri” is the end of an era 🙈

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@puntoste The way I read it, `https://t.co/MlipVLstLu` is an alias for `UIColor.systemRed`, while Color(.red) is a convenience init for `Color.init(uiColor: https://t.co/ciJg7IkGyo)`