I build apps (solo dev) and document everything here and on youtube (90K subs) ๐Ÿค 

Joined October 2009
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SaaS business vs service business Grass is always greener ๐ŸŒฑ
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7 people asked me to make the amy logo do something when you click it, just added something fun in the latest update ๐Ÿ‘€ video won't do it justice, you have to try it in the app
6 Oct 2025
not your average calorie tracking app ๐Ÿ˜ฎโ€๐Ÿ’จ
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adding a siri integration before ios 27 launches ๐Ÿ‘€ has anyone seen any other calorie tracking app implement it this well before?
6 Oct 2025
not your average calorie tracking app ๐Ÿ˜ฎโ€๐Ÿ’จ
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gets access to claude fable 5 me: lets port amy to android cecilia: i want luna on my mac but seriously why does this go so hard ๐Ÿ‘€
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lets try this again with fable 5 instead ๐Ÿ‘€
letโ€™s see how good Opus 4.8 Claude Code workflows really are ๐Ÿ˜ฎโ€๐Ÿ’จ tldr: "port amy to android make no mistakes"
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noooo 20 mins and we're half way through my 5 hour limit ๐Ÿฅฒ i think we need to pause this bc i have stuff to do today and actually need the tokens ๐Ÿ˜ญ
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ya pausing here, it ran for 25 mins and used 60% of my 5 hour usage ($200/mo max plan) sadly need to get some work done today but will pick this back up later tonight and let it run overnight as well
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7 Jul 2025
i haven't said this out loud before but my goal is to hit 100K subscribers before the year ends ๐Ÿ‘€ we're half way through the year and it looks like an insane goal but i think i can do it ๐Ÿคž this will be my thread to document progress / learnings current: 29.9K
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75% of the way towards the goal ๐Ÿ‘€ Lots of growth over the last 2 months ( 10K in the last month alone!) I did a ton of experiments but here were the key learnings: - people are definitely fatigued with AI content (esp content thats over the top) - best performing content was my general app update stuff (very surprised) but packaged in a very "average" way - people really like more technical content (did one very technical video and it performed so much better than i thought). but it was also by far the hardest video ive made bc that balance of technical digestible is so hard haha Most interesting experiment: I put out a video to figure out the real size of my "core audience" (the people who would watch ANYTHING i put out, even if it deviated from the channels normal video). Youtube will purposely supress this video because it deviates so hard (most non-core audience will see it and not click, so youtube will only start showing it to people who are very likely to click it which would be my "core audience") I made the packaging very specific to me (literally called it 48 hours in SF) and it hit around ~11K in 48 hours this signals to me that on 75K subs, 11-15K are realistically my core audience numbers (i predicted it would be around here) I plan on doing another video like this maybe around 100K to get a good pulse of this number, but if you see me doing any out of the ordinary content thats why :) I think i can hit 100K in the next 3 months at this rate will be an absolute grind though trying to do 1 video per week AND will be crazy hard bc im starting to focus on short form too ๐Ÿ˜ฎโ€๐Ÿ’จ
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90% there ๐Ÿ‘€ i don't know why i thought i could hit this last year, 100K is actually such an insane number ๐Ÿ˜‚ its been nearly 3 months since i posted an update and here are some thoughts: I've actually decided to put more focus over the last three months on short-form (dropped my video upload pace to 1 video every 2 weeks) and ive seen a slight decrease in growth on youtube this was 100% the right call though bc once my short form started growing the amount of opportunities increased 5x (events, creator networking, etc...) so no regrets at all i also posted some experimental videos like a 48 min lifestyle vlog 4 podcast style interviews which did SO much better than i thought the amount of people who reached out about it completely shocked me i bought a really expensive camera (fx30) and plan on making some more vlog style content in the future for fun so we'll see what that does but something i want to do long term is bring my audience more into my life which will build a much deeper connection something cool is i went to SF 3 times in the last 2 months and got recognized ~20 times during those trips and every single time someone would mention a specific element of my videos that stuck with them (a technique they learned, a tool they started using or that they launched their app bc of my videos) this really put things in perspective for me that my content is really having an impact and im inspired to push things further now and im feeling so grateful for the opportunity last 3 months have probably been one of the best times in my life. i met so many incredible people and experienced more in the last 3 months than i have in the last 3 years see you guys at 100K ๐Ÿซก
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NEW VIDEO ALERT ๐Ÿฅณ This is a 5 month update on my app Amy (revenue, profit, etc...) and im SUPER embarrassed to admit this but I calculated week 1 retention wrong last month and it is quite bad ๐Ÿฅฒ SO for the next few months my only mission is to fix it ๐Ÿ˜ค heres how its going
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5 hours later, this unfortunately did not work well ๐Ÿฅฒ But I think it's because my prompt was weak I should have used goal in parallel with it AND set up a good verification test by letting it compare android and ios simulator 1:1 Testing this next
letโ€™s see how good Opus 4.8 Claude Code workflows really are ๐Ÿ˜ฎโ€๐Ÿ’จ tldr: "port amy to android make no mistakes"
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what if we added some accountability into amy ๐Ÿ‘€ first time building a social feature into one of my apps, lets see how this goes ๐Ÿ‘‡
6 Oct 2025
not your average calorie tracking app ๐Ÿ˜ฎโ€๐Ÿ’จ
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nice we got basic notifications hooked upโœŒ๏ธ i can think of a LOT of fun things we can do with this ๐Ÿ‘€
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hm not sure what to put on this screen so threw everything i could think of ๐Ÿค” I like this idea of people having profiles though I might introduce this even if you don't use the friends/accountability feature tbh
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letโ€™s see how good Opus 4.8 Claude Code workflows really are ๐Ÿ˜ฎโ€๐Ÿ’จ tldr: "port amy to android make no mistakes"
6 Oct 2025
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since my 5 hour usage reset... lets spin up another instance to make a native kotlin version now ๐Ÿ˜ฎโ€๐Ÿ’จ will leave this running overnight and compare it to the 1 shot react native version we just did!
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nooo couldn't 1 shot native android :( i think its close though but it makes sense, i have a feeling claude code is better trained on react native will keep digging to see how can i improve this
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