bb · building AppStoreReady @BackOfTheBlock

Friday evening I thought of an app that would benefit a niche. Started working on it, shared screenshots on Saturday night. Now I have 110 people on the waitlist, a company wanting to pay to partner with me and a 17k podcast wanting to shout about it! Crazy how things go!

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bb · building AppStoreReady @BackOfTheBlock

6 months ago

@eliana_jordan That first dollar hits different, doesn't it? Properly changes your perspective on what’s actually possible. I still remember mine, felt like I'd cracked a secret code or something

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bb · building AppStoreReady @BackOfTheBlock

6 months ago

Drizzle is basically just a thin wrapper that lets you write SQL using TypeScript. Prisma is a bit of a beast because it runs a whole engine in the background just to talk to your db. So makes Prisma's bundle size way bigger, which can slow things down, especially on serverless stuff. Drizzle is tiny and closer to the metal, so there's less junk in the middle.

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bb · building AppStoreReady @BackOfTheBlock

6 months ago

You can check it out here -> apps.apple.com/us/app/truu-re…

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bb · building AppStoreReady @BackOfTheBlock

6 months ago

@eliana_jordan Proper way to look at it. Even if it fails, you've prob learned more in six months than they have in years at a desk. Is that the main thing people ask you? Usually find it's the ones who are too scared to try themselves.

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bb · building AppStoreReady @BackOfTheBlock

6 months ago

Respect for sticking to the vision. Most people would've folded and taken the 70k as soon as it was on the table. Keeping it pure makes the advice actually trustworthy. Are you gonna keep it strictly free forever, or do you reckon you'll eventually do some 'buy me a coffee' type thing just to cover the overheads?

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bb · building AppStoreReady @BackOfTheBlock

6 months ago

@MerlinOnWeb3 How’s it going Merlin?!

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bb · building AppStoreReady @BackOfTheBlock

6 months ago

GM - today is a good day. What are you all shipping?

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bb · building AppStoreReady @BackOfTheBlock

6 months ago

@jackfriks Miss those days. Pushing straight to main was a vibe, now I'm just sat there sweating over every commit. Are you actually using a staging site now or still secretly yolo'ing it when nobody's looking?

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bb · building AppStoreReady @BackOfTheBlock

6 months ago

Growth percentages are a game changer for spotting trends before they become actual problems. It’s easy to ignore a flat line, but seeing a negative percentage hits different. Are you gonna add a way to toggle between weekly and monthly views for those stats? Would be handy to see the short-term swings.