Indie developer in Portugal • Dad • Building small iOS + web products and sharing the numbers, mistakes and weird things users do • Available for work
Porto, Portugal
Joined May 2009
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Made a little village that you can join 😄
It grows as more people move in, and new things unlock at each milestone
(still WIP, btw 😄)
village.itzami.com
The village is ready for Halloween 😄
All players turned into skeletons, there’s decorations everywhere and even a witch around the vampire 🧙♀️
People who visit the village during this time will unlock the skeleton base forever 😄
The village now has a day and night cycle 🌓
Maybe I'm still in time to do something for Halloween? 😄
What would you like to see?
a. Skeletons
b. Decorations
c. Extra spooky vibes
d. All of the above?
village.itzami.com
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One of my apps got through App Review in under a minute last week. Other devs are on day 20.
After 10+ iOS apps, here's how I'm planning around it now:
- anything seasonal ships early, hidden behind a remote flag, so I can switch it on without a new build
- I submit with manual release on, so approval day and launch day don't have to be the same
- I save the expedited review request for a real breakage, not a theme
At this point you need to plan seasonal features half a year in advance 💀
Dear friends at @Apple @AppStore, please help! We submitted a build last Friday with special Halloween features that are only good through this week. Typically you turn around already-approved apps in <24 hours but we are still waiting for review 5 days later. I understand you are probably backlogged with all the Duo updates, but it would be a shame for all this seasonal work to expire without anyone ever seeing it.
The village now has a day and night cycle 🌓
Maybe I'm still in time to do something for Halloween? 😄
What would you like to see?
a. Skeletons
b. Decorations
c. Extra spooky vibes
d. All of the above?
village.itzami.com
A joke reply to Tim Cook got 66K views. The village I spent two days building got 900.
Same evening, 8 minutes apart. One was a photo of a polishing cloth.
Is it always the dumbest things that get more views? 💀
Apple just put a touchscreen on the MacBook Pro.
After 10+ iOS apps and a lot of websites, here's what I'm checking on my web stuff now:
- anything that only shows on hover, like tooltips and menus
- buttons sized for a mouse, not a finger
- hover styles that get stuck after a tap
- drag or click-to-move that assumes a cursor
Pretty sure my 3D village fails at least two of these 😅
nitter.cf/tim_cook/status/211549…
Published my first story in Substack 😄
Don’t know if it’s any good and putting myself out there fills me with dread but here we are 😄
ruisousawrites.substack.com/…
74 new followers since mid-September.
1,143 on Sep 13, 1,217 this morning. Not exactly viral, but it keeps going up while my apps mostly don't sell yet 😅
What got you past your first couple thousand?
The village keeps evolving 😄
Now you can:
- fish, harvest, chop wood and get water
It will give you resources and experience that will then be used by the entire village 🏰
Made a little village that you can join 😄
It grows as more people move in, and new things unlock at each milestone
(still WIP, btw 😄)
village.itzami.com
Calling all current citizens of the Village to choose its name 😄
Voting will be open for the next 24 hours inside the Notice Board!
Join now so you can also vote 🏰
village.itzami.com
Made a little village that you can join 😄
It grows as more people move in, and new things unlock at each milestone
(still WIP, btw 😄)
village.itzami.com
Tagging all the current villagers (but please tell me if you don't want me to do it anymore)
@stemonte @dneighbors @joaonovo_com @epixcz @AlxTurovski @alperortac @Nocktu @nikuscs @SoraiaDev @oandsn @m_zokov @jonas_tmb @bintz_gavin @dgrcode @jrmd_ @christianascone @gvastebb @diogomgbrito @noksAI_nocode
You can now sponsor the village 👑
Flags, market stalls, or a whole landmark with your logo, and it helps me keep building it
Ideas for what's next:
• quests
• levelling up
• races and professions
• seasons
village.itzami.com
Made a little village that you can join 😄
It grows as more people move in, and new things unlock at each milestone
(still WIP, btw 😄)
village.itzami.com
Text-only posts get 0.6x my usual reach. Video gets 1.7x.
That's from 162 of my own posts. Photos sit at 1.1x and links at 0.9x.
I think I will try to film something most weekdays (with no real promise 😄). Talking to a camera is the worst part.
Do your numbers look like this?
My blog posts were shipping 343 kB of JavaScript so the browser could turn markdown into HTML on every visit
Moved that to build time and post pages are under 1 kB of JS now
