Chasing waves and fermenting things. Previously @EpsyHealth / $LIVN, @SphereMessenger (acquired by @x), @vkontakte.
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Joined December 2009
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How do you localise colours in your projects?
As in, in mainland China red represents positive and green or black represents negative, while in Europe it's the opposite.
Apple's Stocks app respects that (left is for UK region, right is for Chinese):
Woke up to murmur being featured as Apple App of the Day (again!) all over Latin America (19 countries, including Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico) 😍
apps.apple.com/us/story/id18…
@AppStore #OnTheAppStore
Vadim Drobinin retweeted
Nice work, Vadim! We appreciate you being a part of our security community and keeping our customers safe.
I (responsibly) hacked Microsoft a few months ago, and got a Special Mention on @msftsecresponse website*
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* and bragging rights, obviously!
murmur is Apple's App of the Day in the US today 🎉
A flight simulator for phone calls that I built solo: you rehearse the calls you'd rather avoid - a job interview, a hard conversation - with an AI that talks back.
apps.apple.com/us/iphone/sto…
#OnTheAppStore @AppStore
Had a chat with the @hf0 's AI venture partner @boardyai about building murmur - also an AI partner but for those who want to get better at making phone calls themselves.
What a time to be alive.
drobinin.com/apps/murmur/
Siri Aye will continue the line of great Scottish inventions, like Penicillin, telephone, or the MRI scanner. #wwdc26
Spent the last few months analysing most of my online presence over the past 20 years - welp, there are good and bad news
drobinin.com/posts/am-i-a-ba…
I love @RevenueCat 's ARR/MRR widget, but wanted more metrics across all my apps - reviews, downloads, trends - so I built my own App Store Connect widgets, live in App Store today!
drobinin.com/apps/
Took me a while to do right, but now murmur showcases state-of-the-art accessibility throughout the app - from interaction methods like VoiceOver and Voice Control with custom rotors, to being more inclusive with Differentiate Without Color, to showing Captions for call practices
I had the urge to learn Morse code after watching Copenhagen Test the other day, but all apps and tutorials felt boring and confusing.
So I built a modern take that teaches your Morse in 13 hours:
apps.apple.com/us/app/morse-…
I wanted to cook venison from scratch, which meant learning to shoot.
So I spent half a year collecting shot cardboard, porting a 2012 OpenCV paper and training a state-of-the-art computer vision model to run on-device.
drobinin.com/posts/my-phone-…
Made an app to turn selfies into a personal AI stylist and thought I might as well launch it on Product Hunt:
producthunt.com/products/lay…
A few changes and the revenue QUADRUPLED in a week - if my math is mathing, we’re on track for unicorn status by late June
New day, new indie dev news: Google Ventures wrote about murmur in their latest column 🫡
gv.com/news/breaking-the-tex…
Not sure why Apple censors my in-app event, but now my fermentation app has some new flair to it.
First time I see someone offended by the word "kraut", but here we are.
This year’s side quest is making my way through all Canadian provinces - 4/10 done already ✅
Last year’s was reverse-engineering my gym to give it the Apple Wallet support it should’ve had in the first place.
Finally solving real-world problems:
drobinin.com/posts/how-i-acc…
Haven't tweeted (posted? x-ed?) in about 3 years, so here's the recap: moved to Canada, went indie after five years in medtech, and have been shipping very niche iOS apps since.
One of those apps is Murmur: you pick a scenario, rehearse it with AI, and get feedback after.
I gave a sneak peek at @omaikasei's Raycafe in Vancouver last year, but since then it got into Apple's "Best New Apps", and today is launching on PH:
drobinin.com/apps/murmur?ref…
