Devs who've shipped on Google Play: how did you get through the 12 testers for 14 days rule? MyBibleSpark is live on iOS. Android is next. But Google wants a closed test with 12 people opted in for two weeks straight before I can even apply for production

The dinosaur app playbook works, but AI makes the rebuild easy for everyone, not just you My own app took a few days to prototype with Claude. Yours will too. So will the 10 clones of yours The part nobody can clone is an audience on X

Flutter vs React Native for MyBibleSpark. Flutter won because almost everything I needed was already built in. With React Native I'd have been stitching together libraries from a bunch of different devs. One codebase. iOS is live. Android is next!

Check your .env before you ship. A commented out API key is still a working API key I left one in mine and someone found it and ran up $12 on my Claude bill before I noticed Cheap lesson, but moving fast with AI means reviewing what it wrote too

Everyone says find a market first. I built my app for a market of one: me I wanted to read and study the Bible more, so I built MyBibleSpark, where you answer a few questions and get a verse in seconds 5 App Store rejections later, it's live! No guessing what the user wants

You know you're a brogrammer when you think a race condition is a type of leg day 🦵

Dinner and an empty Claude code window. My favorite part of building is right before the first prompt

Stop switching tasks while you code. Every switch costs you the focus you just built Heard that in a talk at Devnexus 2024 in Atlanta. Still think about it I wonder if AI makes it worse. Prompt Claude, grab your phone while it works and come back with no idea what you asked 😅

I always forget New York public library is on the Chick-fil-a schedule smh

Nobody tells you how strict Apple's App Store review is until you're the one getting rejected. My app MyBibleSpark got rejected 5 times. One reason was the "Sign in with Apple" button was missing the Apple logo 🤡 The review took 2 to 3 weeks. The prototype took a few days 😅

9:15 lets have a great day everybody. Start those Claude terminals!

I love it when a team actually works together. Makes accomplishing the goal so much easier

Nothing like realizing you shipped your code with an API key commented out and someone chose to use it and run up your Claude bill 🙃

Nobody tells you coding with AI is like managing a senior dev who can't think abstractly. 10 clear steps? Done before your coffee is. Ask for the logo in the upper right corner and you'll get it in 5 seconds but in the wrong size, because the bot has no idea what the page is for. The plan is your job. Prompting takes skill

I wonder if AI looks back at old code from like six months ago and think, “ugh what was I doing?” like us humans do

Me at work

The rake doesn't care about your workflow

Not done yet but excited to have reached this point!

Got a text saying Fable 5 is unreal Thought Fable 5 was a video game Excited to try it out