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Honestly, ChatGPT was insanely helpful for debugging this step by step. Would have taken me way longer alone.

after digging deeper, I found the real issue: lo was up, but missing the 127.0.0.1/8 address. So every upstream using 127.0.0.1 failed. Fixed it with: sudo ip addr add 127.0.0.1/8 dev lo

After restarting my VPS, all Nginx reverse proxy services started returning 504 Gateway Time-out. The backend process was running, the port was listening, but Nginx kept timing out when connecting to 127.0.0.1.

@ProgressBar202_ 42%

2026 is 42% complete.

@CarlosBBuild @farrux_hewson Appreciate you bro, means a lot. Let’s keep building 🤝

@ponymas @farrux_hewson Anytime bro, we are in this together. Followed (:

My water tracker's icon V1 vs V23. We both grew together. Me as a developer and the app as a product. No matter how the launch goes, I'll always be proud of my little app. Here's to Water Tracker Wellness.

@CarlosBBuild @farrux_hewson Thanks bro, I really appreciate it. I’ll keep improving it and see how it performs over time. I’ll definitely reach out again later for your feedback.

@ponymas @farrux_hewson Get it bro, let me know if you want me to take another look when you are done. But your screen shots and description are 🔥

@CarlosBBuild @farrux_hewson That’s super helpful, thank you. Fair point on both the preview and the icon. I’ll work on improving them.

It’s pretty good, I would add an app preview. So when I was scrolling the AppStore one day, one of the apps started moving and I was like woah. So I added one to mine. I would also challenge you to make another icon. It’s just a T with rays coming out of it. People are going to install it on their phone. Make it pretty.

@lika_build Ideas are cheaper, coding is easier, distribution is harder.

idea is becoming much cheaper now

@CarlosBBuild @farrux_hewson Sure — here’s the link: apps.apple.com/us/app/timetra… Would love to hear any feedback you have.

@ponymas @farrux_hewson Can you share your appstore link? I'll take a look

@CarlosBBuild @farrux_hewson That conversion rate is really good. Mine is only around 0.6%. Any tips on how to improve it?

@farrux_hewson I didn't but my conversion is 15.2%, I like to thing the icon helps

@CarlosBBuild You can just ask GPT to do the image gen part.

@ponymas Thank you bro, I really appreciate that. I spent a lot of time on it. Had to deal with Figma, that wasn't fun lol

Changed the app icon Changed the screenshots Changed the keywords Now it’s in review. Fingers crossed. Hope it works.

@_onecookie I created this account two years ago. That phone number is long gone, and I still can’t update it. OpenAI really needs to fix this.

@ponymas Phone verification makes sense for abuse control, but it feels rough when paid users hit it mid workflow.

WTF, why does Codex need a phone number now?

one of the quotes i find most inspiring on a hard day: "Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the realm of the dead, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom" Ecclesiastes 9:10

@YearsProgress 42%

2026 is 42% complete.

2026 is 42% complete

@pcshipp You’ve got quite a lot of new users already. Mine is still under 10. I’m planning to optimize my screenshots next and see if that helps.

Yesterday, I submitted my third app - $0 MRR - $0 revenue - 42 new users Is this average or bad stats?

What’s the formula for high-converting App Store screenshots?