The general advice for ASO is to start with a long-tail keyword instead of chasing one that's too hard to compete.
But how to find these long-tail keywords?
I've tried but I've never found any.
Such a positive attitude... if you don't mind, help send some of those optimism over here...
I feel "seen". Feeling a bit like a loser seeing people making 10k MRR left and right... thank you ๐
Am I the only one that feels like... anything that I build is just... meh?
It's like everyone else always has a better idea and better implementation.
They are out there building cool stuff and I'm building something that no one should care about.
What is the app?
How do people build and share stuff on social media at the same time?
When I'm building, I just get absorbed to it and don't want to share anything. Also, not every progress is worth sharing. If I work on the Settings screen, what could I say to make it interesting?
I can't build an MVP... I'm too obsessed with the small little things. It's not good! ๐ฅฒ
Guys! Stacktrace is back (again)!
Oh my! It's true!! ๐ฑ
Wait what??? Seriously??!! No way!
I'm using Claude Code. I'm using mostly Sonnet, but Opus is probably not that much better.
And no, it doesn't handle SwiftUI code that well. The way it structures view is not good enough. It generates view code that seems to work on first glance, but it's just not good enough.
No AI model is good with SwiftUI.
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Gotta code everything by hand like in the 90s. ๐
I feel that... trying to create an MVP in a week and release it to the App Store is not a good way of building an app.
Not even a good way to actually test the MVP.
Saw on the internet that I'm supposed to "warm up" US TikTok account and stuff to do marketing.
US SIM card... VPN... proxy... new phone... oh man!
This is way too complicated!
My developer brain cannot comprehend this.
Claude is down.
Me: *Google search*
"How to create SwiftUI View?"
Maybe I'll give up half way. Maybe I'm going to hate it. Or maybe it won't make any differences at all . I don't know. Let's see.
Ok. I'm going for it. I'll take 1 month to do this experiment.
My plan:
- Look for a simple app idea
- Find an angle to differentiate it
- Lean heavily on marketing & distribution
That means I'm going to use TikTok for the first time. And learn to make some ads.
Very good perspective on the job.
Maybe I'm just stuck in my own head.
Best of luck!
Doesn't sound fun at all.
Of course, if I could choose, I would just choose to build only the things I enjoy using. But seeing people make money with just making "another habit tracker app" is quite tempting.
Or maybe it only looks easy but it's not that easy? I don't know. I'm torn.
What do you mean by "your heart still has to be in it"?
What if I just... follow this app. Take the MVP features of this exact app. Tweak a few things to make it my own. Then just publish?
But I'm hesitated as I feel that I'm charging users for a less optimal solution. But you kinda make a good point though. Hmm...
You make a really good point.
1. Not all apps need great solution. Some apps (like affirmation, habit tracker) are pretty straight forward.
2. Some users don't pay for great apps. They pay for apps they see. So if ASO god gives the blessing, then it's all that matters.
Is it considered "bad" to build apps for the sake of money?
Not something I'm going to use. Not even interested in the idea. Just pick something purely because it has high demands in the app store.
Of course, no scammy stuff whatsoever. No dark pattern on paywall or anything like that.
I tried this message "Try for $0.00", and my app got rejected โ
I just want to follow Duolingo app. Apparently, Apple doesn't think this is clear enough for the user.
Time to revert back!
My app is still stuck waiting for review for 3 days now.
Not sure what's going on over there at Apple, but the review process is taking longer and longer these days.
Yep, that's essentially it. Just extract the English (for reference), and the targeted language to work on. Remove all unnecessary keys. Use LLM to translate the yaml and then import back into the string catalog. The file is small and easy to work with.
In GitHub but private. ๐
Too rough right now. Just make it enough for my own use case. Everything is just stuff together to do the conversion.
