Jake Manger

I made an app to make screen recordings like an Apple Ad And it just crossed 70 paying users in its first 3 days!

@madebypetr Basically yeah. Just does 2D rendering and 3D with all these different effects piled on. Hoping to keep evolving it and making it better. Want it to also be more useful for tutorials, letsplays kind of things too

@JakeManger wait so it's like a specialised AE just for product videos? that's actually smart

One thing I’ve learned with launches: the video really matters. But filming takes forever. Anything 3D means After Effects or a little studio in your room. That’s why I made ShotGlass. Does it work? Yeah, it launched itself:

@madebypetr Basically it is it’s own 3D renderer doing what after effects would do but for this case in particular (renders 3D objects, simulates lighting and camera lenses, etc)

@JakeManger been there with the video struggle - ended up just screen recording everything for my launches curious how ShotGlass handles the 3D part without needing AE?

Testing the new renderer and squashing bugs for an update dropping later this week. ShotGlass v0.1.1 is coming soon!

Hey petr, I have this fixed in an update coming later in the week! I’ll be sending an email out when it’s available and users should get notified by the app too. Also coming with lots of performance improvements too. If you right click and reload on the app, that may be a quicker alternative in the meantime

@JakeManger Hey Jake, not sure if others experience this but I notice sometimes when editing the video, it will sometimes freeze and becomes unresponsive forcing you to close the app and re-open it.

You can change the cursor size in ShotGlass Goes from normal to absolutely massive And you can swap between the new macOS cursor and the old Mickey Mouse one Keep fiddling around with it

@tdinh_me i think you've got a winner!

someone bought a copy, thank you! first sale even before my App Store listing is approved 😄

@AdvaitVaidya2 So far, people are loving it, so I’m just building from their feature requests and what I need too. Appreciate it!

@JakeManger This is great Jake🙌 I’m curious, how do you think on competing with similar tools on the market? Btw, your howtoconvert app is also great!

@ajith_io Like 6th. But is looking like my best

@JakeManger Wow Jake.. Is this your first product?

We just crossed 100 users!

Enough computer for today It’s time for pizzas

@madebypetr Amazing! Thanks for the support

@JakeManger Bought it today! Really dope man can’t wait to see what new features you add in the future

@tdinh_me Was so annoyed they didn’t have an app when I moved from stripe The repeated logging in all the time on the site is so annoying

I built a mobile app to check Paddle revenue (because they don't have one): 👉 pulserevenue.app - Use your Paddle API key (read-only and scoped) - Live data with beautiful and useful graphs built with native Swift UI. - Multi-account supported, unified revenue metrics. - Data stay on device, no server (api requests are sent directly from your phone) - Home widgets - I made it free to download on App Store (once it's approved) - Buy the source code for $19 and customize it however you want (save 5hrs of prompting if you try to do it yourself). Some interesting facts about this side project: - I vibe coded with 100% claude code remotely on my Mac Mini (with my AI assistant setup) in less than 24 hours. - I have read 0 line of code in this project and never opened Xcode myself. - My AI assistant designed the app with GPT Image 2, built the app with Swift UI, test it on simulator (via screenshots), send the test build to TestFlight for me to test, and invited me to the app store connect account so I can test on my phone, then the AI submitted the app to App Store and currently waiting for approval. - For the website, I ask it to come up with a domain name, I bought it via manually and give it access via Cloudflare API, the AI design and create a static website with GitHub, test it with lighthouse CLI, deploy via GitHub pages, config the domain DNS, deploy the website. - Then I sign up an account with Polar payment, create an API key and ask the AI to setup a store, add payment, link with the account, and add the payment to the website. The entire process happened in the last 24 hours with me only talking to the AI via Telegram. This is such a fun side project not only to create an app that I wish exists, but also to push the limit of what I can use AI for, and so far I'm very impressed. I'll create so much more apps! It feels like I have unlocked a super power.

@pnandidesign hopefully

@JakeManger Congratulations by just you would hit 500 I believe

@theo freaking HATE IT! creeps into almost every project

The worst part of doing dev work on a Mac: .DS_STORE

@marclou You better have scheduled this post yesterday and not yet checked your phone!

Good morning ☀️ ✅ 8.5 hrs sleep ✅ Zone 2 workout ✅ Healthy breakfast ⬜️ Deep work (in progress) Have a great day!

@hiwljun haha love the post, man! You're pretty spot on with how I planned the posts. The AI image of me is funny

@sergeynazarovx where all the pyramids at?

🇪🇬 visited Egypt with my mom