I build apps (solo dev) and document everything here and on youtube (100K+ subs) 🤠

Dallas, TX
SaaS business vs service business Grass is always greener 🌱
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didn't forget about this btw 👀 spent the 30 days doing an INSANE overhaul (on top of creating moonjar 2 weeks ago 🥲) About to ship this weekend: - new brand + landing page - new app store screenshots (thank you @screenshotfirst 🐐) - 30+ iOS features (and lots of bug fixes) - 50+ desktop refinements / redesigns and more importantly, i have the systems in place to keep this up to date now thanks to moonjar so expect regular updates on the changelog and @ellieplanner I have a roadmap for Ellie over the next year and I'm ready to execute 😤
new mission build the greatest daily planning app in the world 😤 shipping more this week than i did in all of 2022 combined
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hot take: 5 live onboarding calls > 100 people using your app and sending in feedback 👀 there is something about watching a user struggle through your onboarding, be frustrated and watching them give up that you can't get from a "i stopped using it because i didn't like the screenshots it made" also shoutout @Eimen_Nur for hopping on with me and churning live on the call so i can improve 😭 im 100% doing this for all my apps once im done with moonjar
Anyone want to hop on a call this week and be hand onboarded to Moonjar? 👀 Looking for 10-20 people (form below)! tally.so/r/zxPG10
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I think it would be fun to do a little Q&A to celebrate 100K! If you’ve ever wondered anything about my life (even personal) feel free to ask and I’ll try to get it answered in my next video! Can be about anything 👀
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Just did my first call 👀 Holy shit this product is going to be INSANE after I’m done with these calls Will be reaching out to some people on this list tomorrow for a call but I’m so excited
Anyone want to hop on a call this week and be hand onboarded to Moonjar? 👀 Looking for 10-20 people (form below)! tally.so/r/zxPG10
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Anyone want to hop on a call this week and be hand onboarded to Moonjar? 👀 Looking for 10-20 people (form below)! tally.so/r/zxPG10
what if claude code automatically created screenshots for you every time you push a feature 👀
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onboarded my first user (cecilia) yesterday went soooo badly 🥲 brutal UX challenge can't wait to make a video about it ✌️
Last week I announced my newest app (Moonjar) 490 people joined the waitlist off of a single tweet in 24 hours 😮 BUT i posted the SAME app a few days earlier and it only got 15 waitlist signups 🥲 here is what I fixed 👀 basically a mini masterclass on product iteration
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Last week I announced my newest app (Moonjar) 490 people joined the waitlist off of a single tweet in 24 hours 😮 BUT i posted the SAME app a few days earlier and it only got 15 waitlist signups 🥲 here is what I fixed 👀 basically a mini masterclass on product iteration
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and mispoke in the video, i meant to say "almost" 500 signups. not "over" 500 signups! sorry 😅 FULL VIDEO ON YOUTUBE!
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“If you can get it in 1 prompt, everyone else can too” 😮‍💨 I get scared every time I one shot something my apps because it means everyone else can too So when I hit a real technical roadblock I’m SO HAPPY because it means there is a slight barrier for copycats to get through Finally hit a good one in Moonjar I’ve made it work SOOO well for me but now I need to make it work well for others and that means making sure it works across different harnesses and model levels 🥲 It’s really forcing me to architect this well , esp on the memory side to make sure it really learns from corrections and preferences Also learning a lot of great things about architecting good MCP and skills, will definitely do a future video Again, I LOVE when I hit walls like this because it signals this is actually not easy to 1 shot something like this well If you can do it in 1 prompt, everyone else can too 🫪
what if claude code automatically created screenshots for you every time you push a feature 👀
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moonjar mascot 😮‍💨 100% code by the way (created with opus 5.5)
what if claude code automatically created screenshots for you every time you push a feature 👀
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“his products are pure elegance” 🥹 made my day, thank you Jake 🙏 I've been working hard over the last year to push my level of craft and taste and I'm really happy it's paying off. Will keep going!
you absolutely have to follow @raroque on both x and youtube (piped.video/@raroque) if you're into app development – he's an absolute joy to binge on youtube, and his products are pure elegance. amazing content, amazing software and all around great guy. what a craftsman.
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2B+ tokens spent iterating on this landing page 😮‍💨
what if claude code automatically created screenshots for you every time you push a feature 👀
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moonjar time machine view 😮‍💨 a beautiful way to go back to a previous version
what if claude code automatically created screenshots for you every time you push a feature 👀
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what if claude code automatically created screenshots for you every time you push a feature 👀
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i haven't said this out loud before but my goal is to hit 100K subscribers before the year ends 👀 we're half way through the year and it looks like an insane goal but i think i can do it 🤞 this will be my thread to document progress / learnings current: 29.9K
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We are in the endgame now 😮‍💨 Been traveling + focusing on short form a LOT over the last 3 months and so youtube sub growth has definitely slowed more But what's interesting is views haven't seemed to drop 🤔 I also feel like YouTube just doesn't care about subscriber count anymore. They removed the subscriber number when you watch videos The feed is doing a really good job of showing people my videos even if they aren't subscribed. I guess this number doesn't matter as much anymore I have two or three more videos planned that I think are going to push this number pretty heavily. So hopefully we can hit it in the month 👏 Also I think I'm going to change the content up a bit once I hit 100k but more on that later 👀
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