hello! felt inspired by reading about duckdb, how its embedded, and merging that with my interest in data engineering, pipelines and such.just a little you project i thought i would share. no bigger aspirations than "this could be cool" and thought i would share with the community.feedback welcomed
It is currently in review with Apple and will be coming to the iPad and iPhone. This is an iPad-first dungeons & dragons app focused on empowering dungeon master's as they manage their campaign. inspired by my first DM in my first campaign with friends.
its been fun to hack on :)
TestFlight here for anyone curious! https://testflight.apple.com/join/kM4udJSZ
outside of that I started to fiddle around with a cross section of observability and analytics with SDKs...building a little tool to give SDK publishers better insights.
started to explore a iPad-focused Dungeons & Dragons DM app. i called it Campaign Codex. https://campaigncodex.app/
been doing a lot of agent assisted iOS dev...it has been...fun!!
I am unsure if there is a need for a tool like this in the market but I am becoming more and more curious around databases so this felt like a lower barrier for my product-minded engineer skills to get into.
i've noticed that it is sometimes less about the type of company and more about the immediate manager and their mindset. a competent manager can set expectations with external stakeholders while not overloading their engineers. a good middle manager who can play politics with multiple stakeholders and becomes "liked" really leads to a chill job if they have the correct expectations of their career as well.
I made Whenish cause i was frustrated with apps taking you outside of group chats to schedule events and find out dates when people are available. Whenish is an iMessage extension app and it works pretty nicely so far.
recently got my first user feedback email which was really exciting!
hope to figure out how marketing works to get some more users and hopefully double downloads + sales next year.
thought it would be cool to build something like this. im still building but feel free to download it via testflight and give some feedback: https://testflight.apple.com/join/kM4udJSZ
Decided to pivot and start learning about databases and their internals more. Currently pulling down Clickhouse and reading some code along with the reading the book Database Internals by Alex Petrov.
So I'm technically not "working on" an app...I am working on myself to branch out and attempt to specialize a bit more as I progress in my career.
Any advice/papers/books to read is very welcomed!
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: iOS, Swift, SwiftUI, Java, Spring Boot, Elixir, Technical Leadership
Résumé/CV: https://www.commongroundtech.com/
Email: [email protected]
hey all! i am looking for freelancing work in the Apple ecosystem space (Mac/iOS). I am looking to take on 5-8 hours a week.
available for: ios development, interesting web dev projects
hi im tyler! i have indie experience building Whenish, a productivity scheduling app for Messages (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/whenish/id6745035749). i have scaled starts ups from seed to series c rounds. i am looking to consult on a weekly basis primarily building in the ios space but am open to start ups who need technical guidance and need a fractional cto like role.
never has anything rang truer
The only message that is written to the chat is when you hit submit. There is no external service as all information is stored as metadata on the message itself. I did not want to have an external server (which has its own challenges, see in another message around collisions).
Your entire group can see the message but in order to interact with the poll they will need to download the app. They will be redirected to the app store if they do not have the app after clicking.
this leads to some issues with potential collisions like if two people click the Whenish message at the same time and submit their message, there is no way to merge both that data. while this is an issue, i wanted to err on the side of privacy as much as possible and not rely on a server at all.
i release ios apps under an LLC in hopes that one day an app will make money and i would rather that be associated with an LLC.
good question on past dates! i will fix that :)
if anyone knows about this (i remember i saw a warning by Apple) please let me know!
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/whenish/id6745035749
hey everyone! i built Whenish because it was always so difficult to figure out what date worked best with a bunch of friends in a group chat.Whenish is an iMessage app that allows individuals to select multiple dates that work for them for an event attempting to be planned for.i have more ideas for new features but wanted to get something out there that was usable. so far ive had good reception...
this was spurred from group texts with friends planning a vacation or outing. we would just throw a bunch of dates that would get lost in the mix and people would forget who was open on what dates. Whenish just allows user to select dates they are free and then it will show what is the best date that works for everyone.
i have a testflight right now and if anyone wants to give it a go please do! i would love feedback :)
https://testflight.apple.com/join/4HaADNMF
ps: i am not a designer and app icons are hard
I called it gofaux: https://github.com/tjb/gofaux