LucyBuilds

The only thing stopping me release my next app is the fact that I’ve tried for a week to record a product demo and still haven’t. I open my Mac, imagine what I’m going to do and then that’s it. Any advice to get passed this?

Would you release a product if you knew it had bugs? I’ve been working on an app for a while and I just want to get it released for feedback. I’ve used the product myself so it’s absolutely functional - I just keep noticing little things that I try to improve each time and I just fear I’m spending time on things that users may just overlook…

Any advice on creating product demos? I want to create one for a new app I’m releasing but I’m really nervous. At the very least I want to talk through the video but not sure I have the courage for a camera - does this take anything away from the end demo, if I’m not visible?

I’ll be taking on this challenge this year! I’m aiming to release 10 apps and I’ve started my first build however taken a detour - I’m building a little product to help me speed certain aspects of this challenge up. Once that’s done, progress will resume! Looking forward to earning some decent MRR this year.

Has anyone gone through the process of converting their individual apple developer program membership into an organisation membership? What was the process like, and were your apps unaffected?

I’m considering moving from GitHub copilot in vs code to Claude code, but I like that I can use vs code and a chat window. Is it possible to use a chat window with Claude code? I’ve seen its in the terminal so weren’t sure if there’s a vs code extension or anything? Also how long does the Max plan last if you’re typically using it everyday?

Released my 3rd iOS app less than 3 hours ago and already got my first trial user. That has to be the quickest one of my apps has ever found a user let alone a trial! Going to focus on just ASO with this app and see if I can learn the dark arts.

@OfficialLoganK Yes please Logan! ☺️

Reply here or DM me :) will add folks in as much as we can

Big upgrade to vibe coding in @GoogleAIStudio lands in Jan, but if you want to test early… 👇🏻

@mattwelter I joined yesterday but I didn’t see anything, just something I’ve been wanting to try and noticed you had a discount running☺️

omg yesterday was the most reelfarm has ever made in a single day and i dont know where the traffic came from if anyone sees anything mentioning reelfarm from the past 72 hours pls lmk

Ah gotcha! So a new product but a cheaper version? And what about the apple review team - they need to ‘see’ the new product in the app I assume, so how do you publish your new product in order for them to review it…before they’ve approved it? Sorry this part of app development has always seemed like a dark art for me, no idea how it works! Appreciate your response ☺️

@LucyBuilds i’m adding a whole new product to do it and adding that product in super wall so it’s over the air for a new paywall with the new products that five premium access in my app also managed by superwall

me, patiently awaiting apple to approve my 2 new products offerings so i can run a black friday sale for my new app that is currently going viral:

@anything Would love to join!

It's now possible to build real apps on your phone $100k hackathon to celebrate the best app made via app get the app → createanything.com/app reply and we'll send you the hackathon

Anything for iOS is out! it's the app that makes apps $100k hackathon for it, reply to sign up

@zobeir Holy shit!!🤯 this looks insane. Would love some credits if you’re still giving out! Wonder if I can get my next app live in 2 weeks built purely with anything?!

I’m Zobeir Hamid I built the new Anything app I've got 500M credits sitting in my dev wallet for you to try it out reply if you want some

I need help… What’s the best way to add/manage Black Friday deals for my iOS app? Would you create a new subscription specifically for this, and show a specific paywall (I use revenue cat)? I already have a 3 day free trial so I don’t think I can add another promo, but I don’t want to have to keep updating my app to add/remove different paywalls.

Here’s some of my insights since launching my new iOS app and marketing on TikTok with a fresh account (roughly 4 weeks ago): - growing an audience on TikTok has been a great success (in my eyes) and I’m very close to 10k followers. Yes I consider this a success ☺️ - most of my posts are focused on growing my audience so it’s not given me great numbers for my app so far (3 total subs: 2 x yearly and 1 x monthly) - TikTok algorithm is still a mystery but my posts do well and even after a week, one of my posts will get picked up and go ‘viral’ (what numbers do we consider viral?!) - the most interesting insight I’ve come across is that my posts typically go viral thanks to the South African audience. I’m not using a vpn or anything and I’m posting from the Uk, yet SA make up for nearly 43% of viewers! So my question to anyone who’s made it this far is, should I localise my app for South Africa and how would I do that?😂

Here's an example! 😃

I've been working on an update for my Figma plugin for ages because I couldn't get it quite right, until recently. Until now - you could upload Figma layers as the screen content on real 3D models: iPhone, iMac, MacBook and iPad. Now - Dynamic mode: Choose any Figma layer or upload an image to extrude it into a real 3D object. I use my plugin when creating my App Store screenshot graphics but I really wanted to make 3D text. Now I can 😊 Releasing this update is a bit of a weight off my shoulders!

Do I give up? I’ve been posting on TikTok since October to market my app. I have 7.3k followers but my app statistics are awful. Main CTA is in my TikTok bio but I have been ‘mentioning’ the app in some posts. If anyone has ideas I’m all ears! I just need to get to 6k revenue (total, not MRR) to consider this a personal success.

Reading this, I tried my best to imagine how you must have felt in the moment and it seems amazing. I need to focus on my health and turn my life around in a way, and reading your posts are really inspirational and encouraging me to look at my body in a different way. I need to look after it better. Thank you!

Ok, here is my trip report from 4.67 grams of magic mushrooms, 24.9 mg of psilocybin. The dose used in modern clinical trials. First, the experience was exhilarating. Positive in every way. I felt like a kid finding and exploring a new playground. My sensory perception was dialed up to levels I must have felt as a kid but have been dulled with time. I experienced sense of touch with awe. Feeling my fingers rub together felt novel. Touching my skin and running my feet over the threaded quilt lit up my brain. It seemed that my mind was insatiably curious and wanted to deploy its sensors into the world and discover all things. I felt the same sensory joy in moving my body. Rolling my joints, curving my back, curling up in a ball, flexing muscles and moving all about in a fluid fashion. My body felt nimble, supple, fit, and strong. My sense of hearing was equally as elevated. It helped that I was also wearing my new hearing aids which restore frequencies I’d long stopped noticing. The music I listened to hit more fully than I have memory. My facilitator gave me some water in a glass jar. The visuals of the light reflections, water dynamics and sensory experience of holding the glass were so fascinating that I forgot to drink. My brain wanted to stare, study and marvel. One of the most satisfying things I discovered was taking huge, deep breaths. Inhaling life and fueling the body’s needs and wants. I did it over and over and over. This material of existence, all around us, was available and free to be mined. You just needed to breathe in. (After peaking and coming down, I ate a salad. It tasted like the most delicious food I’d ever eaten. The flavor exploded in my mouth. I savored every bite.) At one point, I felt like my entire body was still. I had a perceived sense of total body control.  Like my heart had stopped. Complete stillness. This was surprising as I’m acutely tuned to my heart beat. I monitor my heart all day every day and can usually discern my heart rate by sensation. In that moment, I couldn’t feel my heart beat or any pulse pressure through my blood vessels. First time that’s ever happened. I asked Kate to check my heart rate on my wearable and it was mid 50s. I wasn’t worried. Just curious about my sensory experience. With this heightened sense of sensory perception, it felt like my consciousness was dialed up to 10/10. I felt hyper aware and hyper alive. It felt like mushrooms restored my perception to youthful levels, returning them to factory settings and dissolving my aged numbness. Once my senses were reset, my attention sifted from the texture of existence to existence itself. We spend most of our time playing games at the layers of people, dramas, companies, politics, jobs, money, ideologies, and status.  Underneath these games is the knowing that physical death has been inevitable. Everyone before us has died. When death is inevitable, people pick their game among a wide array of options including reincarnation, heaven, legacy, offspring, ancestral veneration, existentialism and many more. These frameworks make death soothing, a virtue, and something positive to be anticipated. But what if death is no longer inevitable? I’m not suggesting immortality. I am suggesting a radical remake of human life. The speed of progress in AI, biology and medicine point to a new frontier of possibility. Are we cavemen-equivalent now compared to what we will be like in 50 years? It’s now harder to argue why we should limit our imagination. With so much promise, why have we not shifted our societal attention to secure our own existence? To solve aging. To address existential risks. To care for our planet. Why are we still messing around with self destruction, war and ignoring preserving our own existence? We work hard to be fit. To learn a skill.  Build a relationship. To make money. When we identify an opportunity, we focus and work hard. It seems to me that we’re not yet aware or awake to the opportunity of what existence could become. Whatever one’s life philosophy and belief of what happens after this life, the majority of us want to live to see tomorrow. We have stuff going on and things to look forward to. And when tomorrow arrives, we want to see the next day. Wanting tomorrow is functionally equivalent to wanting infinitely. The want to exist is deeply embedded in all of us. Our actions prove this every day. Humans have been the alpha form of intelligence for a while now, imposing our will upon all we can. Our powers have increased dramatically in the past few decades. We can edit our own DNA, design materials at the nano scale, and build thinking machines. Our alpha status is now challenged by AI. Whether AI is friend or foe, and in what ways, and on what timelines is anyone’s guess. No one knows. Mushrooms opened up my sensory awareness of this landscape to depths I hadn’t accessed before. My ability to see and understand felt like the movie Inception, where characters take a sedative to enter a different realm to carry out missions. A space as real as what we experience each day, but with different foundational pillars of reality. It felt convincing that without the aid of a reality expanding intervention (like mushrooms), you can’t really see or understand this dimension, handicapping awareness. While in this mushroom-induced dimension, it felt clear that we are about to start waking up from a slumber that has hypnotized us into accepting death. This will happen faster than people think. Once people see a practical path to extending a healthy life, they will adopt ferociously. The body positivity movement came to mind. Most people don’t really want to be overweight and unhealthy. But when we want something we can’t achieve, we come up with moral frameworks about why we didn’t want it in the first place (i.e. sour grapes). Once GLP-1s came about, people’s attitudes changed overnight. The same will happen with aging. No one wants to be crippled and handicapped by age. This awakening will also come about with the emergence of new ideologies. Revolutions erupt when a civilization’s founding myth becomes incompatible with its reality.  The system fractures, dissolves, and opens up space for new meaning to rush in and replace it. This pattern has been repeated throughout history. > The agrarian empires (800-200 BCE) ruled via tribal power and violence, creating a moral crisis that gave rise to Buddhism, Greek philosophy, Judaism and Confucianism. > Feudalism (1600-1800) ruled via divine monarchy, creating a stagnation crisis that gave rise to rational inquiry, the scientific method, individual rights and democracy. > Industrial capitalism (1848-1945) ruled via mechanization and labor exploitation, creating a crisis of alienation, mass poverty and urban chaos that gave rise to socialism, nationalism, regulation and collective rights. > Liberal capitalism (1980-2025) ruled via consumer sovereignty and free markets, creating a crisis of attention capture, metabolic collapse and existential despair that will give rise to something new. Capitalism solved for scarcity. Its defining virtue was freedom to choose. Ironically and perhaps inevitably, compulsion replaced scarcity and freedom decayed into addiction. Revolution is at our doorstep. Our current systems are fractured, evolving, and opening up space for new meaning to rush in and replace it. Change has been a reliable feature of human society. It will happen on accelerated timescales given the pace of technological and scientific advance. After journeying this terrain, I was left feeling unbridled enthusiasm for the future of existence. That we may be the equivalent of cavemen trying to anticipate a future that is unimaginable to our current minds. And that existence could be more exquisite than any can actually paint at this moment. New archetypes will emerge: warriors and caretakers of existence. People who are defiant of death, and view self-destruction as primitive and low-status.  Who take the continuation of human existence as seriously as profits, fame or power. They will emerge as our high-status societal idols. The irony is that people thought this experience would collapse my interest in life and have me willfully kneeling to death. To find truth though, one must always invert. What seems more likely is that people use death to shield from the disappointment of not experiencing the potential of life without the limitations of death.

Don’t stress too much, 10mins is nothing. The other day one of my posts was at 0 views for over an hour and I thought I was shadow banned. By the end of the day it was at 20k views. Couple days gone by and it’s slowed down but nearly at 60k views now. I also don’t think it’s a good idea to remove poor performing posts.

I tried @jackfriks warm up technique and I don't know what happened but something went wrong. This is my video after 10 min of publishing on Tiktok. 0 view, I've never seen that. Should I remove the video and post it later on ?