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I'm Max - iOS developer wrestling with App Store Connect for a good part of my career both for companies and my own iOS apps.

I talked with other developers and companies I realised they hit the same walls - no straightforward way to get simple metrics like revenue per install by country, or measure conversion rates without getting lost in clunky dashboards. I found myself forced to build a bunch of internal tools just so I could avoid the pain.

While services like RevenueCat can show a lot of data and is easier to use, I never loved the idea of getting locked into someone else's billing platform, especially given how simple storekit? makes it to implement natively.

Now I've built a product that pulls data straight from the App Store with no need for any SDKs. I've also teamed up with a few awesome devs and we've added real-time notifications for trials and payments, customer profiles and linking to PostHog and Amplitude.

It's open to try now for free and I'm curious if you share the same

But using what, just js + html + css, for anything moderately complex this will become impossible. Even all AI agents will have easier time using some framework as it will be easier to comprehend most likely

nextjs is great in a sense that it allows to make full stack apps very conviniently. Making an api endpoint is just creating a file. If only there was less stuff in between though

I was mainly referring to the levels of complexity that keep piling up in the front-end world. The main reason, I wrote this is because I spent a day debugging and trying to understand one of the newer caching-by-default behaviours introduced by Next 15 in attempts to solve previous caching behaviours mistakes they made.

But in my post I was referring to the overall state of the front-end tools right now and the frustration that comes with it. From one side it's the best time to build things and see how far we've come. On the other hand it can feel like the unnecessary complexity of our tools only increases rather than making things simpler, I was interested to hear some ideas of where we might end up with all this and how soon

Honestly, now there's too many mechanisms that keep track of your history of changes. In-editor history, git, ai-agent history in cursor. It's now so damn easy to loose your changes or just mess it up because of too many tools doing that. I do feel like this needs to be unified in some way