grayprog
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Founder of Apparent Software, Mac software indie developer.
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Comment · 1 year ago
As some who started similarly as an indie developer (albeit mostly for macOS) back in 2005 and still doing it (on the side now), it's a dream and lifestyle that are very desirable for me since (similarly to the OP) I've learned that people made a living this way in the Mac world.
I left a well-paying engineering day job in 2009 while earning only $500/month on my indie apps in the hope of growing the business. The Mac/iOS developer conferences scene was great at that time ( NSConference, anyone) and I made a lot of connections and dev friends with whom I'm in contact still many years later. The dev community is still pretty good and helping.
Marketing apps has become a real hard problem these days, though, because most of the press doesn't care about apps anymore, unless they are from the big corp, or they just focus on Apple's own news and rumours.
Still, it's very fulfilling to see people who use your apps and recommend them.
Comment · 2 years ago
I searched for what are the top stories in HN today and one of the results was that OpenAI released ChatGPT 5? WTF? Also about Rust 2.0. Also, the sources listed were strange, not HackerNews, although it did list Hackernews URL on top, but not in sources. https://imgur.com/a/AoFiEQt
Comment · 3 years ago
From the web site:
Instead of simple voting, which results in sub-par and biased decisions, Next Decision’s process forces people to make the hard choices to arrive to more robust decisions that the whole team can stand behind.
Comment · 3 years ago
Been using Bunch.ai for daily tips for quite a while. Some were very helpful. I wasn't so good at keeping up with new features and tips, though. This will give me another reason to try it. Hopefully, this new feature is as helpful as it can be.
Comment · 3 years ago
Trickster is something I use every day, many times a day.
ScreenFlow is great for screencasts.
Would like to add a few other Mac apps that I like:
DEVONthink — https://devontechnologies.com — is a fantastic Mac app for organizing documents. It's a desktop Evernote replacement for me. (25% off)
Cashculator - https://cashculator.app - Personal finance with a focus on planning and "what-if" scenarios. Like a spreadsheet. (50%, no subscription).
Comment · 4 years ago
I see, so you're just writing the bridge code yourself. OK, I do the same in Objective-C++, so at least it gives me an object-based interface, as well. But saving this step and having a direct Swift <-> C++ would be helpful.
Comment · 4 years ago
How do you create the C interfaces from C++ code?
Comment · 5 years ago
Voltswagen - Resistance is futile
Comment · 7 years ago
I always wondered why there is no "is" in this phrase. Why is it not "This page is intentionally left blank". I hoped this article would answer it, but no. It does show the is in [] to mark that's it's kinda missing. Anyone knows why there's no "is"? Does it ring wrong to you without "is"?
Comment · 9 years ago
Are you guilty of being a TL;DR programmer?