Daniel Kilders

Holly shit, I’ve been quiet lately trying to get the hang of ✨marketing ✨ And today I’m Top 6 in the finance App Store 💥💥 Mamma mia

@plahteenlahti When you say “React Native vs native,” is RN counted as cross-platform (iOS+Android), or are you comparing iOS-only RN vs iOS native / Android-only RN vs Android native? Cross-platform RN would naturally have a bigger revenue ceiling if compared against a single native app.

React Native apps make noticeably more money than apps built with kotlin, swift, flutter. Both per install and and after a year

@steipete @openclaw No codex app? Only CLI?

How the sauce is made @openclaw

yes things are changing fast, but also I see companies (even faang) way behind the frontier for no reason. you are guaranteed to lose if you fall behind. the no unforced-errors ai leader playbook: For your team: - use coding agents. give all engineers their pick of harnesses, models, background agents: Claude code, Cursor, Devin, with closed/open models. Hearing Meta engineers are forced to use Llama 4. Opus 4.5 is the baseline now. - give your agents tools to ALL dev tooling: Linear, GitHub, Datadog, Sentry, any Internal tooling. If agents are being held back because of lack of context that’s your fault. - invest in your codebase specific agent docs. stop saying “doesn’t do X well”. If that’s an issue, try better prompting, agents.md, linting, and code rules. Tell it how you want things. Every manual edit you make is an opportunity for agent.md improvement - invest in robust background agent infra - get a full development stack working on VM/sandboxes. yes it’s hard to set up but it will be worth it, your engineers can run multiple in parallel. Code review will be the bottleneck soon. - figure out security issues. stop being risk averse and do what is needed to unblock access to tools. in your product: - always use the latest generation models in your features (move things off of last gen models asap, unless robust evals indicate otherwise). Requires changes every 1-2 weeks - eg: GitHub copilot mobile still offers code review with gpt 4.1 and Sonnet 3.5 @jaredpalmer. You are leaving money on the table by being on Sonnet 4, or gpt 4o - Use embedding semantic search instead of fuzzy search. Any general embedding model will do better than Levenshtein / fuzzy heuristics. - leave no form unfilled. use structured outputs and whatever context you have on the user to do a best-effort pre-fill - allow unstructured inputs on all product surfaces - must accept freeform text and documents. Forms are dead. - custom finetuning is dead. Stop wasting time on it. Frontier is moving too fast to invest 8 weeks into finetuning. Costs are dropping too quickly for price to matter. Better prompting will take you very far and this will only become more true as instruction following improves - build evals to make quick model-upgrade decisions. they don’t need to be perfect but at least need to allow you to compare models relative to each other. most decisions become clear on a Pareto cost vs benchmark perf plot - encourage all engineers to build with ai: build primitives to call models from all code bases / models: structured output, semantic similarity endpoints, sandbox code execution. etc What else am I missing?

@juanjovn Is your experience with Claude that good? I used to be on the 200$ plan for Claude code, but now I get consistently much better results with the 200$ for codex. Speaking specifically for ios/swift development.

I decided to join the cult for a month

Welcome to my family @DanielKilders

@juanjovn El normal o con expansión ?

I have 1 slot available in my Nintendo Switch Online Family. 8.75€ per year, send me a DM!

@alice_ercolani @matteo_spada Did you guys manage to find a fix for this ?

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@dagorenouf Oooh that’s the grand seiko I got myself to remember my honey moon. Freaking beautiful watch. I would also choose grand seiko over Rolex in a heart beat. Check out the new UFA they just released. Sweet af.

My CEO will gift me a $10K Rolex if I close 23 deals this month. I’m at 19. This should complete my transformation into a corporate sellout. (I prefer Seiko btw)

@dams_app What makes you think it’s shady? You can achieve the exact same from blogs, ugc or whatever marketing channel that doesn’t directly link the app and forces the user to search for the term. Not saying this specific one isn’t shady, but it’s not the only way

I’m now convinced many apps are ranking on the App Store using illegal keyword installs. This guy launched 2 apps just 2 months ago → already >100K downloads the last 30 days. He ranks top 3 for insanely competitive keywords in multiple categories. One of his apps ranks #2 for “Logo Maker” (most competitive keyword in Logo niche), beating apps with hundreds of thousands of ratings despite not even having “Logo Maker” in the title or subtitle (only app in the top 10 rank not using those keywords btw). I refuse to believe that’s just ASO skills or luck. Most likely: shady keyword installs. Apple needs to crack down on this. It kills fair chances for indie devs. I’d love to be proved wrong. I even reached out to several devs who rank suspiciously high with new apps, offering to pay for their ASO advice. Not a single one ever replied. So yeah… until proven otherwise, my conclusion is: shady keyword installs are what keeps them on top.

@manchatz Buena suerte 😂

@DanielKilders Now installing the final iOS 26, there is no turning back!

@lililililili96 @DomHere_ Mine is also off 🤔

@DomHere_ iOS 26 RC

End of 5 star reviews from onboarding? Off by default on iOS 26 🤯🤯🤯

@ConnorFurlongUK 15 pro max But except the icons, I have also seen the rest on 16 pro max. You should be able to see that too

@DanielKilders What iPhone are you using? I’m using the 16 Pro Max and not had any problems. Just installed the RC

@ConnorFurlongUK The icons not loading happens from time to time, but rarely The rest is the whole time and has been like that for the previous betas too

@DanielKilders Is it like that even now? I normally expect that shortly after installing an update that it can be a little laggy as it renders all the Liquid Glass stuff in realtime and there’s background processes and indexing yet to complete

@juanjovn Qué dices!! 😂

@DanielKilders Pretty meh tbh 🤣

I think this year I’m going to be an adult and skip completely this generation. Having a 16 Pro and an Ultra 1, there too few things that justify an upgrade imho. Will probably upgrade my AirPods Pro 2 though, 2x better noise cancellation is no joke! #AppleEvent

@SwiftyAlex Only 2450€ 😬

I absolutely need a 2TB phone

@seanallen_dev Same. Classic “I wanna be that guy” marketing move

I'm always like damn... I need that Pro camera. Then I proceed to never use any of those capabilities. #AppleEvent

@seraleev Cosmic orange is sick 🔥

I love Apple product video

@CastAsHuman @JamesMuchLesser @twannl @grok Not sure if you are serious or not They are marked as var, in the same way that I went for class and not a struct. In the example you can’t see if Person is a struct or a class, therefore ‘you might get the wrong value’

@DanielKilders @JamesMuchLesser @twannl @grok

Which of the three options do you prefer? And why? I'll explain my preference: avanderlee.com/swift/computed… #swiftlang #iosdev

@JamesMuchLesser @CastAsHuman @twannl @grok

@DanielKilders @CastAsHuman @twannl @grok, in swift, is an let array member of a struct mutable?