Ivan Hjelmeland

In 2013, I earned my first dollar on the App Store. That dollar ignited a fire within me and set me on a long, but very fun journey to achieve financial independence through my own apps. A decade later that dollar turned into $5K MRR📱👏 2023 🔥🚀 #buildinpublic #indiedev

If you love vibecoding, take a break from it once in a while. Nothing beats the feeling of true craftsmanship and mastery. I deeply miss the pre-vibecoding era. #indiedev

@twostraws @natpanferova @iOSKonf Nice, Paul! 😍 I built TinyRoll, the easy way to delete and organise your photos 📸 apps.apple.com/us/app/photo-c…

I have one free ticket to @iOSKonf to give away! You DON'T need to retweet this or follow me. In fact, all you need to do to enter is reply with a tweet about an app you made that you want to promote – make sure to include an App Store link! Literally promote yourself to win 🙂

Shit, I just quit my job to go full-time indie 🫢 That means: – Half the salary 💸 – No colleagues 💔 – I’m 100% in charge of my own time – Total freedom, total responsibility It’s scary. And it feels exactly right. #indiedev #indie #BuildInPublic

There's some shady TestFlight invitations in circulation this season. If you receive messages like the ones below, delete them. ChatGPT for iOS is not available as a public beta and these invitations are not from OpenAI.

10 years ago today, I launched a Pokédex app in an App Store era where apps went viral overnight—mine hit 30,000 downloads day one before getting pulled for copyright. Wild times and a great memory! #indieapp #indiedev #appdeveloper

Built a tiny app to help me focus while coding apps at night. 🎧 Jazz + rain + timer = flow. Free here: apps.apple.com/us/app/simple-… #iosapp #indiedev #buildinpublic

@Aivars_Meijers Reminds me of the good old times when we had to check #iosreviewtime to see how many days it would take 😅 I remember I experienced 11 days one time!

This is new, it seems that we can expect up to 48 hours review time in the App Store now. It was about that before, but Apple never promised that.

@adamlyttleapps 👏🎉

Congrats to the indie devs who got featured today! That hard work paid off

@upen946 A really nice workout tracker without subscriptions and ads: apps.apple.com/app/apple-stor…

👋👋 Monday again!! Time to promote your product. 🚀 Share your product URL.

@starter_story But how do you disconnect and take a break? There is ALWAYS something that could be done to improve 😅 Not asking for a friend! 🤦

don't be a fool. success looks like this: – deep work on a project – for ~2 hours/day – for 1 year do this and your life will NEVER be the same again.

This weekend I had such a blast updating my apps to iOS 26–so much fun! Liquid Glass looks amazing when done right 😍 #buildinpublic #liquidglass #ios26 #indiedev

iPhone Air is soooo slim! 😍 #appleevent #iphoneair

@peterfriese Exactly 👏

@ivanhjel Oh, you mean multiple rooms? That sounds like a fun idea!

I always wanted to have one of those 3D isometric tiny room illustrations of my office. Nano Banana was able to create this super realistic version of my room (source photo in the first reply)

@Aivars_Meijers 👏🎉 I hope Thailand is treating you well - it really looks like it does on your Instagram 😍

The results of the 30 Days of Challenge Marketing Challenge are better than I expected August is looking good, but in September charts just exploded. Curious to see what will happen next month. I already uploaded a YouTube video with details. Newsletter version coming tomorrow.

@aaarkalyk Thank you ❤️🙏

@ivanhjel Done ✅ Good luck man!

Help an indie app dev bro out 🙏 I just launched my app TinyRoll on ProductHunt and would be so happy if you would upvote 🙌 producthunt.com/products/tinyr… #iosindiedev #buildinpublic

This summer i built a new app, and to boost downloads I’ve set Lifetime Premium to free for 48 hours! Clean up your camera roll, fast easy and fun! Swipe ⬅️ delete, ➡️ keep, ⬆️ share, ⬇️ album. apps.apple.com/no/app/tinyrol… If you like it, please give me a review ❤️ #buildinpublic

@everton_dev ViewController.h

Only the OGs iOS developers knows what this is:

@kushtrimabdiu Thank you! 🙏 I really appreciate that you took the time! And I can't agree more, this is most probably the major reason. It all about "starting a journey", and right now my app doesn't support the users enough in the early stage.

@ivanhjel Hi Ivan I gave your app a try and it looks quite nice :) I personally am a gym noob but eventually I got the hang of it. It might be that most of the people who download it are beginners and might expect that the app gives them some workout samples they can start from.

I’ve spent 10+ years building a weightlifting app. People who use it love it.. but... new users drop off fast!😫 I’d deeply appreciate it if you’d download it, give it a try, and tell me what made you stop (if you did) 🙏 apps.apple.com/us/app/workout… #buildinpublic #indiedev