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Apps I designed, developed, and shipped from idea to store.
Shared grocery list
Recipe bookmark manager
I Ching journal
Dream journal
Local produce calendar
Want to see whether a new icon gets more people to install your app? Apple's Product Page Optimization lets you A/B test icon variants directly in the App Store. But, it's...
Meta Ads are another way to drive installs and engagement, alongside Google and Apple Search Ads. Personally, I haven't had success with Meta Ads. Google and Apple Search Ads worked better for my hobby...
When I'm building MVPs for my hobby react native apps, I use firebase functions. In the beginning, my backend is simple. This post also covers testing Firebase Functions, local development, monitoring, and managing secrets....
In earlier posts, I covered push notifications. In this one, I'll show how to add real-time communication via websockets between an Expo client and a NestJS server. The demo repo I use is https:...
When I first got a hold of Mac computer, I was very much frustrated with it. There were issues with it, because I expected it to behave the same like windows or a linux computer -...
Last part of my push notifications series is integrating web push notifications. In the first part I covered how to integrate push notifications on ios and android, then how to send them from a nestjs server,...
