Yesterday was magical. Create with Swift Napoli Meetup 8 was our biggest meetup to date! Thanks, @0xTim, @ipeekerten and @MuseumShuffle, for being part of our lineup and sharing your experiences and expertise with our community. If you are an Apple developer or designer and haven't been to one of our meetups yet, you should come check it out next time — we'd love to have you! You can sign up for updates at our Luma calendar here: luma.com/createwithswift Thanks to everyone who showed up. It made the whole evening special. See you in the next one! ✨

📣@MuseumShuffle TAKES THE STAGE BY STORM! ☔️ Chris has been an indie developer since 2017 and works on his current app, Please Don't Rain. He’s also an organizer of iOS Dev Happy Hour and CommunityKit.

▶️ It's time to push play on something new! ⭐️ @swiftsonicconf is a new iOS & Swift conference coming to Nashville November 20-22, 2026! 🎤 Community-driven, focused on real-world iOS and Swift stories, and shaped like a music festival. 👇🏻 More info in the replies!

Wrapped up with amazing indie dev fair. Honestly, I felt so happy to present my app and onboarded few people. It was indeed a fun, interactive experience. I personally loved most of the projects and ideas behind it. Thanks @communitykit_ for engaging great minds together ❤️

Grateful to be part of Indie Fair by @communitykit_. thanks to @swifteves, @mikaela__caron, @RevenueCat & organisers! Had a good time meeting people, & talking about our apps @Feelly_App, @tennisalleyapp Loved the conversations and giving away books and polos! #WWDC25 #indiedev

I got indie swag! (the best type of swag) And met some indie devs in person at communitykit indie fair:

I've been working on this release of Please Don't Rain for weeks. My first time doing all of these: iPad support, paywalls by @RevenueCat , App Store In-App event, and a free trial. I love the artwork my sister drew for the event! #Procreate

Today we joined forces with @SarahPerezTC at @TechCrunch to announce @playpokpok's $6M Series A, led by @adjacent! And, if you want to know what it's like trying to get a smidge of that 2.2% of global VC dollars allotted to women founders, keep reading... @ncsh from Adjacent is awesome. He has incredible expertise and we're so glad to have him lead this round. Plus, he's unlike any other VC I've met (that's a compliment). Perhaps just as important, with him comes the expertise from his kids, too! His daughter has been playing with Pok Pok for over two years, and has an opinion just as important as her dad's. 😉 Same goes for @TurnerNovak's kids at @BananaCap_ and @shiftb's family. And all of the kids at @metalab — shout out to @davidtapp and @Desdeke! We're also thrilled to have the folks at @konvoyventures participating again too, and just love that with every passing year, more kids (and future playtesters) are being born into the Konvoy klan. The TLDR: we are so grateful to have a bunch of amazing investors be part of Pok Pok. But, we had a really tough time finding female investors for this round, something that was not the case in the past. It turns out that way fewer women VCs invest beyond Seed stage. After all that pitching, we found ourselves at a tipping point. We were so thrilled to have some really awesome investors in our corner, but it just didn't sit right to close without a single woman on the cap table (especially given our product and customer)! So we paused. @EstherH_ and I debriefed, allocated a chunk of capital and vowed to prioritize women investors in a second close. We were grateful to have had the unwavering support of our board and Nico in this decision. It took more time, but we found some incredible women like @shellkennedylon and tons more who aren't on X. One even started a new VC just to make this investment... These women are strategic, valuable and simply awesome. I’m sharing this story to hopefully inspire even just one woman to start investing and one founder to push a little bit harder for a diverse cap table. 💛 And maybe in 2024 we can make that 2.2% a 3% and finally quantify how many female investors there really are out there so we can prioritize adding more! Now, back to building! 💪 techcrunch.com/2024/06/18/no…

Don’t think of it as your only time to share feedback! Happy to bring anything good/bad back to the team :) we wanna hear it

During WWDC I was invited to the Apple Developer Center to be part of a group that gave feedback to Dev Relations. Something I wanted to convey (which I forgot 🤦🏻‍♂️) was that having entry be free really opens the door to small devs like me. I'm so appreciative of this. #WWDC24

🔥 SwiftlyRush - Issue 73 🔥 SwiftlyRush Weekly has just been delivered, covering topics from @twannl @tanaschita @joshdholtz @DeepDishSwift @swift_leeds @MuseumShuffle @Leo_Pugliese @sarunw @tanaschita I hope you enjoy reading it 🙏🏼 buff.ly/3MOaAFQ #iOSDev

Time to dust off the blog. I wrote a post about my experience with launching Please Dont Rain with the YOLO (You Only Launch Once) tips that @JordanMorgan10 has shared. chriswu.com/posts/appstore/y…

None of my teammates were invited to WWDC. So I invited them.

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We'll see you all at WWDC23 😉 Stay tuned for updates from your favorite iOS developer meetup! developer.apple.com/wwdc23/

Thank you @melvco from iDB for including Please Don't Rain in this "apps to check out this weekend" article! idownloadblog.com/2023/03/18…

So grateful to @BrentDirks for writing a wonderful article about Please Don't Rain. I've never had an app I've written get a feature like this and I've almost got tears in my eyes. appadvice.com/post/please-do…

Feel better soon, @PodcastDru! Our intrepid podcast co-host @SuzGupta flies solo on this one and talks to the wonderful people behind @iosdevhappyhour about live events. Your weekend listening starts here: hubs.ly/Q01F2NC00

Know a company that’s a good fit to sponsor an upcoming #iOSDevHappyHour? Let us know! Our monthly happy hour averages around 100-200 attendees, and we have a 10k audience reach between our different comms channels. We love sharing meaningful companies with our attendees.

In case you missed it 👀 See y’all this Saturday! RSVP 💌 idhh-feb2023.eventbrite.com