Cody Bontecou

@jackfriks @athcanft He's chosen the ad's route 🤷‍♂️ P.S. surprised you're not on premium +

@athcanft lmao

ads are a different game to organic ads are designed for conversions, organic is designed for virality ads don’t need to go viral because you are paying for them to be seen - so you optimize the hook, the demo and the ending in a completely different way to organic if you’re just starting out, pick ONE - organic or ads - get really good at one, then learn the other if you try both at the same time, it will take you much longer to start making $$

@rauchg Is DESIGN.md a standard agents will understand or is there an additional step to get Pi to work well with it?

@seraleev A photoshop wizard should make those glasses look like Snap's newest pair 🤓

Imagine launching $2,195 AR glasses in 2026

13.72% install → paid 23.3% onboarding paywall → paid maybe I should make a video...

@julianharris @loktar00 Some people already claim local inference is good enough (just not SOTA) vickiboykis.com/2026/06/15/run…

@CodyBontecou @loktar00 Yeah why would anyone commit that far ahead? 100% guaranteed SOTA will bump between 2-3 other providers over the next year. And by end of year I’m betting on local inference being good enough for my 128GB Mac M5.

Have to say this has been a GREAT year for the price I paid.

@odd_joel Yeaaa English. Makes sense. I'm glad you have other options for non-english speakers.

@CodyBontecou great to know that! English? I think it depends on the language.

moshi moshi have you tried the speech test feature in 3.6.0? does Parakeet work for you? is Nemotron better? still on Whisper for your language — or is the cloud model winning? curious what you're finding.😻😻

@DonnyWals What ssh client are you using from you phone?

I’m like 21 years late to the party but I’ve set up tailscale and tmux on a Mac mini, MacBook, and my phone and now I feel like I have super powers…

@daniel_nguyenx @growth_pigeon What's salt coffee?

@growth_pigeon Salt coffee is just too good man. But I was never like egg coffee 😂

Men only want one thing. And it's posts about coffee, Vietnam, and Casios

I know this is scary and can be a bit stressful, but at the same time I am so thankful to have users that help me catch these issues and fix them.

The last thing I like to wake up to after shipping an update: "The last update seems to have caused a bug and I can’t get into the app. I took a screen recording so you can see what happens every time I open it"

@sobedominik The new CEO is supposedly a hardware genius so there are some exciting times ahead.

@CodyBontecou oh shoooot you are right

Apple now featured Juicy for the second time on the homepage under "Apps We Love" and it resulted in a consistent 3x more app sales per day compared to when not featured. It's absolutely insane 🙏 Thx Tim Apple. If it could only stay featured forever 🤣

@alexmiller_am @anulagarwal Tends to be the case. i.e. Roblox, Warcraft 3, ...

@anulagarwal The level editor was the real product. User-generated content turned a simple game into a compounding ecosystem, which is why 13 years later it's still growing.

one of my favorite indie-dev stories is the solo developer of Geometry Dash. >earns $30 million/yr from mobile + steam >steam sales are growing year on year >13yr old game >BILLIONS of views across socials, all organic (no paid UGC because players are the UGC) >hired a few people in his team and enjoys now >10 million+ subs on YouTube >the game is very simple at it's core. >no added meta or forced content >he added a level creation system that allows players to create levels and share with others. >paid + free games inspiring tbh today studios with millions in funding are unable to crack this formula and here a solo-dev is outrunning all of them with a 13 yr old game title/IP

@seraleev What a weird limitation.

Every year I install the iOS beta Every year I forget that I won’t be able to leave App Store reviews for months

@MatthewSchrager @petergyang @mattpocockuk Might have to try this. I've struggled to get anything but burnt tokens from the default /goal.

My current workflow is a /grill-to-goal skill based on @mattpocockuk’s /grill-with-docs that basically interviews you to produce detailed documentation about your feature, with clear acceptance criteria etc., along with a goal-ready prompt that references that documentation. Then just call /goal with that prompt. Works very nicely in my experience.

So I have Codex running on a /goal and it's been working for 2 hours but the problem is it's making alot of wrong assumptions so I have to monitor and steer it constantly. Is this expected? Perhaps I should've had it make a detailed plan first?

@Dev2Diary @justddev Aha it gets better as you deploy more often.

@justddev You say this as I’ve been waiting 4 days for an update :)

apple review times have been insane lately 11 minutes in review pretty sure it takes me longer to make coffee

@justddev Yea, I think they’ve begun using an AI/automated review process. I remember seeing somewhere that they have an automation disclaimer.

Turns out auto-scrolling may be bannable so I'm pivoting to be positioned as an accessibility/reading aid.

@CarlosBBuild Hah fair. Much healthier that way.

@CodyBontecou lol no coffee just water tracking, keeping the app focused

Making progress on full Watch Support

Who broke payments on June 10th 🧐 @jackfriks @marclou

@udiWertheimer $50 🔥

never do this kids