yaya

Saw @thepatwalls tweet an idea. Built it in 8 days. Now he's gonna be our first beta user 🤩 You can just do things.

@onlinedopamine only started mobile apps recently, might just do this!! I was focused on b2b stuff loro and others that I had (but sold recently)

@YairDev what have you been working on? took my advice regardijg a nomad app??

pretty cool seeing some activity on here after not posting for months, and only getting back to posting for a day or two! I was honestly thinking I'm gonna go back to posting to the void if you've been silent for months and wanna get back into it, just do it.

@onlinedopamine 💀

@YairDev and then tell them you're russian lol

Review of my stay in Tbilisi for 2 months Beautiful place and definitely had lots of good parts but overall was my worst nomad experience. Pros: - Pretty cheap overall - Safe - Good food and produce imo. Meat isn't the best but cheap Cons: - Smoke smell everyone. people smoke outside the gym, in their apartment, everywhere on the street - Everyone drives super aggressive. Took many taxis and not even one drove well, basically getting around is unpleasant to say the least. Also most taxis had smoke smell - The vibe is pretty cold. People don't smile much, don't greet. When you talk to them they are kind, and there are many nice people, but I do prefer warmer environment. - People are up till late, which means lots of noise. There are quiet places for sure, but was harder to find - Infrastructure isn't the best. Had a full day of not having water and electricity, something that didn't happen in 3 months of staying in Sri Lanka Overall if I'd go back, it would be only for the nature

duplicated my US campaign to Canada and UK If trails convert, I'll be close to breaking even on the US campaign Canada brought me 1 trial yesterday RN seems like I'm getting some installs and impressions, biggest issue is the cost though

@desunit True, but this tradeoff is now much less impactful with AI. But yeah for sure, I'm happy that I'm just doing IOS now

@YairDev Native feels calmer because the stack surface area is smaller... but the tradeoff (especially if you are a small team/solo) - now you own two platforms

best decision I've done building mobile apps is to use Swift instead of Expo can't even begin to describe how better the experience is

@thomas_nylund @Baconbrix Also, I'm mostly using AI to code these days, so trying to find out what I did wrong that caused it was super hard, actually took me less time to just get codex to code my app in Swift, it's a very simple one.

@YairDev @Baconbrix This sounds like a skill issue. I’ve been developing with Expo for 5 years and I’ve never seen and issue/bug that would happen in TestFlight only but not locally/on simulator or vice versa.

@thomas_nylund @Baconbrix It definitely very well could be, and highly likely this is! But it's easier for me to just use Swift rather than try to improve at it, at least for my goals

@shahid_khan_dev Yeap. And that was probably way faster than trying to fix it

@YairDev I wa developing an app for my client for Amazon TV, the app was simple, stream videos that will run for days non stop, I tried everything but the videos will stop and freeze after 24 hours, spent a month trying different approaches nothing worked. Switched to kotlin and it worked

@saidattax Codex + xcode yeah

@YairDev You code on XCode?

So the fact I find it difficult to work with Expo, but easy to work with Swift means I'm not a good developer? Even if true, this only proves that Swift is easier to use

@sage_mastermind @Baconbrix So the fact I find it difficult to work with Expo, but easy to work with Swift means I'm not a good developer? Even if true, this only proves that Swift is easier to use

@YairDev @Baconbrix You're just not a good developer. Sorry.

@capsnoluck @alexvinidiktov @Baconbrix I could probably keep going with Expo but I'm developing multiple simple apps Codex built an app faster in Swift than I could fix the issues I was having with expo 🤷‍♂️

@alexvinidiktov @YairDev @Baconbrix What diff does it make? I been on and off expo since 2020 and I couldn’t say that I am an experienced expo engineer until only last year that I decided to not let these issues get in the way and eventually give up, I released 4 expo apps by learning how to overcome the problems

@inversorfreak Thank you, what number to aim for?

@YairDev Check it out the ASO, and also the screenshots, that conversion rate is low. but keep it going!

analytics for first app no idea if this is good or not, would love any opinions on if I need to improve the listing page

@JoshuaRileyDev @Baconbrix lol I feel ya

@YairDev @Baconbrix Funny how I’ve just seen this comment as I’m battling debugging a crash that happens on TestFlight but not locally

@vickyrj939 Thank you. I am, will look into it, what number should I aim to?

@YairDev Impressions are great, but the conversion rate seems low. I think you should work on improving your screenshots. Are you running an ad campaign?

@indiesoftwaredv Yeah can't deny that benefit, but not worth the tradeoff for me, I rather just wait for updates, many times you gotta compile native code so it doesn't always matter

@YairDev I love Swift eighter but when you learn Expo it makes lots of things much smoother and Expo supports native modules as well For example, I make quick changes with my phone and send updates

@I5uru1 Sweet, thought it's bad lol

@YairDev its good man. you got good impressions and downloads. thats really good to start.

@grugag1 Good to know

@YairDev That's quite good man, you have better CTR

@DylanDuff3 @Baconbrix I couldn't imagine working on RN without expo, my comparison is mostly Expo/RN vs Swift

@Baconbrix @YairDev Expo was a godsend, truly made working with RN an enjoyable experience, really appreciate the work you guys have been doing to reduce the work on our end for things like Liquid Glass & Widgets

@rolandobarbella Nope, I'm mainly using AI to code these days and just read the code, learned a bit about Swift but not much tbh

@YairDev Where you a swift developer before?