Chris (SSE)

Retiring my family one-by-one by building consumer apps. Posting my stats and findings as they happen.

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@ios_dev_alb Need feed family

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I never do marketing for my apps. I tried it with a card scanner app a while back and I just didn’t see any return on my time.

Others do, so I think I’m just not good at sticking with it as I don’t enjoy it.

So today I created a mini website for one of my apps to try cash in on some SEO and LLM traffic and then created a developer Pinterest account too to auto post content linked to the site.

Bit of an experiment but let’s see if it drives downloads.

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@mosesbabychrist Really enjoying watching the progress on this

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@juanjovn Congrats mate! Best journey there is!

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Second app submission this week 🚀

This is a full pickleball score keeper app complete with cool animations about learning the sport, rule books etc.

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@jackcornetpat Congrats mate. Really pleased for you. You’ve put a lot of work and effort into this.

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@juanjovn Make it happen 🙌

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@adamlyttleapps Crazy Taxi vibes

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@ronchumaceiro Yeah just an estimate unfortunately 😔

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Apples payment system for iOS app developers is a mess. Always way higher than it will actually be on day one of the reports being published (maybe don't publish incorrect figures?!?) and then when you do get paid it's ALWAYS about £100 lower than it tells you in ASC because this is only ever an estimate. Complete guess work until it hits your bank. In 2026.

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@garyth3duck Yeah I’m up on the fiscal months but it’s the adjustments for tax they make etc that really throws things off for me.

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@BastardAnth Where did my foreground go? 😂

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Your iPhone can take shots like this

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bored, let's try something new:

For $300 I will make you any iOS app (no games, and apps without a backend requirement only, no auth etc).

DMs open - cure my boredom

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@Nanjialonguazt Thanks. Yeah I’ll keep it. I’ve been using it and I enjoy it so hopefully others will too.

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My new app, Photo 3000 is available now, allowing you to take photos with a roll of ‘film’ and develop them when the film is full, to get results close to that 35mm film feel (like this picture of my wife)

Link in the comment 📸

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@Aivars_Meijers Ah wow, that’s cool. Hope you and your family are doing well. I’m still following along your journey three years into iOS building 🙌

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https://t.co/fjwTHKAvnA

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@SciFiArchives I emulated a lot of these in my latest app that allows you to record video as though it was on a VHS. You just pick your favourite and hit record.