My animated dancing stick figure in SwiftUI is finally coming together! 🕺 Custom animations are not what I do most 😅 What do you think?

Working on some animations for @appdab.app 😊

Yay! That will be much easier to style in the app, than this year's theme 😅

Screenshot of the app running on an iPhone

Sadly, I won’t be at @deepdishswift.com this year 😔 But I did update the official unofficial app with the new schedule and new style 🤩🩵 Have fun in Chicago 🍕
You can find the app in the App Store: apps.apple.com/app/id644835...

Screenshot of Deep Dish Unofficial with a leather navigation bar

A new version of the Unofficial app for deepdishswift.com is out with even more leather 😘
apps.apple.com/app/id644835...

Deep Dish Unofficial App - App Store Download Deep Dish Unofficial by Morten Gregersen on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more apps like Deep Dish Unofficial.

The unofficial app for @deepdishswift.com is ready for 2026 🎉 If you are going, make sure to get it, to keep up with the schedule 🍕 #iOSDev
apps.apple.com/app/id644835...

Screenshot of the "We'll be back soon" page.

When trying to access Apple's "Request a expedited review" site, I immediately gets redirected to a "We'll be back soon" page. It worked yesterday. Maybe they have gotten to many requests the last couple of weeks 😅

Screenshot from a TelemetryDeck weekly email for Miniotaur showing 3,788 users for the week of 09/03/2026 and 304,862 signals, with a highlighted 189,300% increase in users compared to the previous week.

A 189,300% week over week jump in users is not something you expect to see in your inbox 🤩 I had to read that @telemetrydeck.com email a couple of times before it really sank in 😅 #IndieDev #iOSDev #ParentDev

Miniotaur App - App Store Download Miniotaur by Morten Gregersen on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more apps like Miniotaur.

If you want to try it out, you can find it here: apps.apple.com/app/id675128... 🏛️

Graph showing number of daily active users going from mostly 0 two days ago, to 1500 today.

Screenshot from App Store showing Miniotaur in the section "New games we love"

My son and I just realized, that many people has started downloading our maze app, Miniotaur, the last 2 days 😅 Since launch, not many people had downloaded it, but maybe getting featured in "New games we love" in the App Store does something 🥰
#IndieDev #iOSDev #GameDev

AppDab showing new version of AppDab waiting for App Review,

Back from a week vacation with my wife and kids 🥰 Submitting new versions of @AppDab.app and Score Wonders for App Review, and continuing "work" on my FaceTime photo-sharing app "Sammen" - almost ready fo TestFlight 🚀 DM me if you want to help me test it out.

Used the app since Dec 2023. Finally bought Premium Lifetime in Feb 2026. That’s not an impulse buy - that’s a considered relationship. 😄

Screenshot of the What's new screen in AppDab, telling what has changed in the latest versions.

Next version of @appdab.app will get a "What's New" screen on updates 🎉 This is something I think has been missing, as it has been hard telling users through other channels, all of the changes - posts and App Store "What's new" is not long enough.
#buildinpublic #iosdev #indiedev

Prototype working! 🎉 My new vibe-coded app uses SharePlay and CloudKit to let a person in a FaceTime call show photos to the other participants 🏞️ Next thing to work on: speed of photo downloading 🚀

(Left Morten is showing photos to Right Morten)

#buildinpublic #iosdev #indiedev

Light mode icon (three dots above an image icon above a single dot)

Dark mode icon (three dots above an image icon above a single dot)

Non-tintet icon (three dots above an image icon above a single dot)

While Codex has been working on features, I have been trying to design an icon 😅 Hand drawn and glassified with Icon composer.

I am trying to build a vibe-coded app with Codex 😬

It’s something I’ve wanted to build for a long time, but never really had the time to figure out whether it was even possible.

It's an iOS app with a focus on family and friends 🥰

#buildinpublic #indiedev #iosdev

Release 19.0.0 - Spec 4.2 · MortenGregersen/Bagbutik Release notes for the new spec can be found on Apple's documentation site: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appstoreconnectapi/app-store-connect-api-4-2-release-notes What's Changed Updat...

New version of the #AppStoreConnect API, and a new version of Bagbutik 🏪 Some interesting stuff for Game Center 🕹️, In-App Purchase offer codes 💳 and Android to iOS mapping 🤖 github.com/MortenGreger...

Watch this update ship - literally 🚢⌚️🥸

Quickly checking App Review status for App Store versions and manually releasing them when approved. Also basic editing.

Soon you will be able to release apps from your wrist 🚀
What would you like to do in #AppStoreConnect from your watch?
#indiedev #iosdev

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Still… going indie has been absolutely worth it.
Time with my kids 👦👧
Freedom to build 💡
Community 🤝
Creativity ✨
A life rebuilt, one app at a time.

If you want the full (long, honest, personal) story, here it is 👇
atterdagapps.com/posts/3-year...

But the financial reality?
From 2022–2025, all my apps combined earned $2,865 💸
The only reason the indie journey was possible is because of pension payments and savings after my wife passed away.
Without that runway, indie life wouldn’t have been an option.

Score Wonders had a huge update in 2025 — adding every expansion and a $5.99 subscription.
For the first time, I saw a real revenue spike 📈
I also crossed 100 active subscribers across all apps.
A tiny milestone, but huge emotionally.

2024–2025 brought work I’m really proud of:
🤖 AppDab Intelligence
🏛️ Score Wonders with expansions
🍕 Deep Dish Unofficial on iOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS & visionOS
And building Miniotaur with my son was incredibly meaningful ❤️

Then competition arrived 😬
Someone started building an AppDab competitor 🚢
It hit me harder than expected — sleepless nights, anxiety, and some sessions with a psychologist.
But eventually the fear turned into motivation 💪
I shipped some of my best updates.

Surprisingly, freelance work showed up out of nowhere 💼
A VoIP app in Denmark 🇩🇰, a travel app in Germany 🇩🇪.
All because I shared my work publicly.
It helped bridge the financial gap and reminded me visibility matters.

Then I tried chasing the iOS 17 launch with Akryla 🎨
I pushed myself too hard and completely burned out 😵‍💫
Almost nobody downloaded it.
It taught me a big lesson: chasing Apple’s spotlight is not a healthy strategy for me.

Community became my fuel.
@DeepDishSwift 🍕, #WWDC23 🍏 — meeting people I’d only known online was transformative.
These events gave me support, energy, and the feeling of belonging that I didn’t know I needed.

So I coped the way many indies do: I built more apps.
🏛️ Score Wonders
💬 Talkasy
🍕 Deep Dish Lie
🌸 HeyAIku
It became a burst of momentum — frustration turning into creativity.