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Day 47 of Building in Public 🚢 4 hours of just straight building today! Feels so good to get back in the swing of things. Daily Log ✅ Added a "Progress" page for skincare iOS app to keep track of streaks and display Achievement badges ✅ Added dark mode and light mode support ✅ Clean up little UI quirks in the calendar view ✅ Setup notifications Now I just need an onboarding flow and pricing, then this app is ready to launch!

Wow, you can stack widgets in iOS! I didn’t know this was a thing

Day 46 of Building in Public 🚢 Made a couple more widgets for users to keep track of their todos for their day and be proud of their progress! I think I’m starting to get the hang of designing for iOS. The stats in the screen shots are actually mine!

Claude Code is smartest at the start of a session. Long sessions slowly degrade because of compaction. Trick: After a while, ask Claude to generate a handoff doc and start a new session. Fresh context = better results. Turn into a skill so Claude does it automatically.

Day 45 of Building in Public 🚢 Finally got my first widget to work for my iOS app! Took much longer than I'd like to admit but I'm new to iOS and I've only had about a 30 min - 1hr per day to work on this. Experimenting with this new shorter format for my daily updates with screenshots of what I build. What do you guys think?

Day 43 of Building in Public 🚢 Back from my little ski vacation and ready to grind again! Daily Log ✅ Watched a 1 hour run through of the Swift language. I realized I was relying way to much on vibe coding to code my iOS app so I need to take a step back and learn things. ✅ Filmed some content for transcriby to upload to tiktok. Taking a UGC / very personal approach. I'm realizing how readable of a language swift is once you get past it's little quirks. The only clunky thing I feel is with XCode and recompiling my code takes pretty long so it takes longer to iterate. I'm also considering building an API service for transcriby as more than one person has asked me for it now. What do you guys think? __ Thanks for following my journey #BuildInPublic

Day 41 of Building in Public 🚢 Drove up to Lake Tahoe with friends today. I was the driver so it was hard to get a lot of work done. Good to see my FCP metrics are going up after my changes from yesterday! Hopefully this leads to a better UX for my users. Daily Log ✅ 9-5 Grind ✅ Made it to Lake Tahoe. Skiing tomorrow! ✅ Add notifications for retipal to apply retinoid at night. Improved visual bugs. Added ability to upload progress photos __ Thanks for following my journey #BuildInPublic

Day 40 of Building in Public 🚢 Transcriby made it's 2nd sale 🥳 Not sure when the high of getting sales will go away, but right now each one puts my mood through the roof! Daily Log ✅ 9-5 Grind ✅ Improve FCP for transcriby. Turns out I had vibe coded a big waterfall of async calls causing to have the app to have very bad FCP metrics (3.5 seconds+). ✅ Polished Repital further - users can now have multiple retinoid routines that they can switch between. Cleaned up the UI so it looks less nooby. ✅ 4 post, 54 replies, +3 followers (189 -> 192 🎉). If you had told me that I would start making money off the internet in a month of starting this BIP journey I would have scoffed. It's crazy what a little persistence and focus can do. __ Thanks for following my journey #BuildInPublic

Haha this me when void responds