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"App Store ID", "Apple ID", "adamId", "trackId"....its all the same number. the one after "id" in your App Store link :) wrote down where to find it and what its NOT. funnelhound.app/guides/find-app-sto… #shipaton #buildinpublic

The same digits appear after id in the App Store URL and in the Apple ID row of App Information in App Store Connect.

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emin @emin-builds.bsky.social · 23h

Not sure what I did for this app a while back...but its clearly not happening anymore 😅 One great Sunday, then right back to normal. Anyone else get these random bumps and never figure out why? #shipaton #buildinpublic

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emin @emin-builds.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

half of your App Store Connect dashboard is a full count, the other half is a survey. downloads = everyone. deletions = only people who opted in. nothing on screen tells you which is which :) funnelhound.app/guides/app-analytic… #shipaton #buildinpublic

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emin @emin-builds.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

you dont need an SDK to talk to the App Store Connect API. 3 pip packages and ~25 lines of python gets you a list of your apps. wrote it down, 401 checklist included :) funnelhound.app/guides/app-store-co… #shipaton #buildinpublic

Diagram: the .p8 private key, the Key ID and the Issuer ID are combined into one ES256-signed JWT, which is sent as a Bearer token to api.appstoreconnect.apple.com.

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emin @emin-builds.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

day #90 of "fuck it, let's do this" posted the app to #shipaton with 9 minutes to spare. next? an overhaul of the app with a customizable dashboard. also, seems the sun decided not to show up at 7am. dear me.

Dark room before sunrise, a hand holding a dark mug in front of a blurred curved monitor showing orange app screens, keyboard on the desk, streetlights glowing through the window.

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emin @emin-builds.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

ok, FunnelHound is FINALLY submitted. I did it in the last 10 minutes. Why? I don't know, I have issues and like to work under pressure. Maybe I should have been a diver. anywho...made a video for it, cringe AF: youtube.com/shorts/jKSnnLG5ddY #shipaton #buildinpublic

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emin @emin-builds.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

go to funnelhound.app and find the magic button :) #shipaton #buildinpublic

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emin @emin-builds.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

just putting this out there

A dark card with a glowing white wireframe diamond, titled Web-app funnel with the subtitle Resend Broadcast, stamped 29/09/2026, with the number 32 and the code E#03.

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emin @emin-builds.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

day #87 of "fuck it, let's do this" today, adding web-app funnel for #shipaton. FunnelHound should be a perfect match for it :) #buildinpublic

Dark desk before sunrise: a hand raises a dark coffee mug in front of a monitor showing the RevenueCat web funnel editor, with a phone-sized paywall preview reading $0.99 per month next to a checkout screen.

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emin @emin-builds.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It all started with an idea :) funnelhound.app ❤️ #shipaton #buildinpublic

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emin @emin-builds.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

day #86 of "fuck it, let's do this" I love morning dark :) time to wrap up the #shipaton submission. Happy with the slides, now to write some text and we are DONE.

Dark room before sunrise, a hand holding a dark mug silhouetted against a bright, blurred monitor showing orange and brown presentation slides, keyboard in the foreground.

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emin @emin-builds.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Really having a hard time deciding which slide to use. Light mode or dark mode? #shipaton #buildinpublic

Two versions of the same FunnelHound setup slide stacked vertically on an orange background. Headline 'Three keys. Three minutes.' with text about direct App Store Connect API and Keychain storage, next to an iPhone showing the 'What you'll need' setup list: API key, Issuer ID, App ID, Vendor number. Top version has a dark phone screen, bottom version a light cream screen.

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emin @emin-builds.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

day #85 of "fuck it, let's do this" kinda hard to take a good photo at this hour. plan for today: wrap up the #shipaton presentation images. maybe a video?

Dark room at dawn, a hand holding a glass mug of black coffee in front of an ultrawide monitor lock screen showing 05:30 over a blue-green wallpaper, keyboard in the foreground.

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emin @emin-builds.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

fuuuuuuck me, this is good! Am I tripping? or is this good?...if you ask me, this is good. #shipaton #buildinpublic

FunnelHound App Store graphic on dark brown: headline 'Which app deserves your next month?' above three iPhone screens — an app dashboard with a 7.4K impressions chart and milestones, an onboarding screen showing 852 total installs across three apps, and a live MRR screen at $661 (+18% WoW) with a milestone pinned on the chart.

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emin @emin-builds.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

day #84 of "fuck it, let's do this" It's morning, back at it. The app did a bit better this week without me changing anything....maybe sometimes it's better to just let go of the wheel. What did I miss? :)

Hand holding an orange mug of black coffee in front of a blurred monitor showing a dashboard with bright charts, warm lamp glow in the background.

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emin @emin-builds.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

working on graphics for the #shipaton submission. AI cannot present this exactly how I want it, gotta go in manual 😅 #buildinpublic

Photo of a monitor showing a Figma canvas with a dark FunnelHound presentation slide: an orange 3D hound mascot wearing a cone of shame on the left, the headline Your App Store, on a leash, a subline about impressions, installs, purchases and MRR for every app you ship and a hound that barks when money leaks, and funnelhound.app at the bottom.

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emin @emin-builds.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

yikes...just started working on Mac version of the app and wondering if i should just go back to "made for ipad" version. but for some reason it feels nicer if its a fully fledged mac app I think. #shipaton #buildinpublic

FunnelHound Mac app window on the MRR tab: dark dashboard with a big orange MRR card showing $38, +11% WoW, 100.0% churn, 22 downloads, 11 subscribers and $17 revenue, a flat 7-day MRR line chart, and a Recent sales list of small subscription payments from Spain, the US, the UK and Brazil.

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emin @emin-builds.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

RevenueCat's #shipaton has 27k participants....27....thousand. A truly exciting age we live in.

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emin @emin-builds.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I built the app for #shipaton, then went on vacation...released the app....aaand? Forgot to complete my submission for it 😅 Good thing I still have some days left....this would have been embarassing 🙃 #buildinpublic

Desk at dawn: Xcode project settings and an X feed on a wide monitor, an iPhone on a stand, a hand holding a coffee mug over a white keyboard.

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emin @emin-builds.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

day #73 of "fuck it, let's do this" building a TDS game today. will try to make it available to test.

Hand raising a dark glass cup of coffee in front of a blurred monitor showing a pixel-art game level open in an editor.

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emin @emin-builds.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

two takes on the same screen, made two different ways. which one do you prefer? :)

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emin @emin-builds.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

remember Crimsonland? I LOVED that game. Working on something similar, and its my first web game ever. Also reading and watching SILO so thats the theme inspiration. Super excited about this one :) Anyone else grew up on it?

SILO asset pack sheet, pixel art, top-down: a soldier player in idle, move and shoot poses

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emin @emin-builds.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Did I make more icons? Yes. Do I regret it? No. #shipaton #buildinpublic

iPhone settings screen of FunnelHound showing an App Icon picker with five icons: Houndy, OG, Glossy, Furry and Jelly. Heading: Even more icons, 0 regret.

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emin @emin-builds.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I placed "report a bug" and "request a feature" under the same field. Mistake was made. Separating them now — when someone hits an actual issue, I want direct contact with them, not a submission on a common board. #shipaton #buildinpublic

iPhone settings screen of FunnelHound showing a Feedback section with two separate rows: Report a Bug and Request a Feature. Heading: Report a bug, separated from feature request.

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emin @emin-builds.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I can actually feel the smell I felt when thinking about this game. Isn't that weird? But also awesome?

Isometric scene from the classic Commandos game: soldiers standing in a round stone courtyard with sandbags, barbed wire and a wooden guard post.

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emin @emin-builds.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The apps I built with more conviction are the ones rising. AI Copywriter is ancient. Marked and FunnelHound are from the last few months, both climbing steadily. $16 + $12 + $4. Not breaking any records yet 😅 but I guess I'm doing something right?

FunnelHound portfolio widget showing three apps side by side: Marked at 16 dollars with 5 subs, FunnelHound at 12 dollars with 4 subs and 45 downloads, AI Copywriter at 4 dollars.

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emin @emin-builds.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Well, it happened: FunnelHound went from idea to App Store in one hackathon summer. Daily posts, one deleted vault (dont ask), one 4 day scheduler outage, and a dog mascot with more personality than me. Win or lose, the deadline made the app real. Anyone else shipping against a deadline right now?

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emin @emin-builds.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

FunnelHound says his funnel is funnelling :) 904 impressions, 64 installs, 5 purchases. Health check green, no leaks. Now the real job: more eyes on top of the funnel 💪 #shipaton #buildinpublic

FunnelHound funnel screen: 904 impressions narrowing to 64 installs and 5 purchases, green conversion badges, No leaks health check at the top.

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emin @emin-builds.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Found a home for all the previous app icons. At this rate it will be the biggest section in the app :) Which one would you pick? #shipaton #buildinpublic

Alternative Icons on FunnelHound.app: phone showing the Settings App Icon row with four icons named Glossy, Houndy, OG and Furry.

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emin @emin-builds.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Reworked the FunnelHound onboarding 1 day before launch. Old one: screens explaining stuff nobody reads. New one: get to your data as fast as possible, explain later. Nobody ever bought an app because the onboarding was thorough :))

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emin @emin-builds.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

welcome to Hound Town 🐶 maybe I build this one day, when FunnelHound makes enough money for it. for now the entire HQ is one dog in a cone :)

Aerial render of an imaginary FunnelHound headquarters: a campus building shaped like the app icon — a giant orange cone with a white dog snout poking out — surrounded by gardens, pools and streets.

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emin @emin-builds.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

is houndy trying to break some own records?

App Store product page for FunnelHound in Norway, ranked Nr. 21 in the Developer Tools charts, orange cone-dog icon at the top.

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emin @emin-builds.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

FunnelHound is out :) it started as me refreshing my stats going "people SEE the app, why is nobody buying it??" and slowly turned into an actual app. with a dog in a cone. it puts impressions, installs and purchases next to each other so you can see where people give up.

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emin @emin-builds.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Oh man...so close!! Who will be the lucky 100th FunnelHound pre-order? 😅 We have until Wednesday 9pm Oslo time to hit 100. I think "we" can do it? apps.apple.com/us/app/funnelhound-a… #shipaton #buildinpublic

App Store Connect dashboard showing 99 pre-orders with a spike in the chart on August 27

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emin @emin-builds.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

New team section on the FunnelHound site. Houndy is not the only one wearing a cone. Its all of us :) Tijana gets credit for years of ruthless feedback, I get a bucket. Who else builds with a co-founder they live with?! funnelhound.app/#team #shipaton #buildinpublic

FunnelHound website team section. Headline: Three of us. All in cones. Three circular portraits: Emin Grbo and Tijana Grbo each with an orange bucket over their head, and Houndy the mascot dog wearing an orange cone. Roles: founder and developer, co-founder and iOS developer, chief leak sniffer.

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emin @emin-builds.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Pre orders are climbing :)) Final stretch for FunnelHound. Releasing any day now, currently making sure the paywall is paywalling. Would mean a lot to crack 100 pre orders before launch 💪 apps.apple.com/us/app/funnelhound-a… #shipaton #buildinpublic

FunnelHound app icon: white plush dog snout peeking out of a glossy orange cone like a megaphone, on a bright blue background

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emin @emin-builds.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

ok ok...done with the icon improvements, I promise :) the cone is an actual cone now, not a fur cone. it was bugging me every single time I unlocked my phone. what do you think? #shipaton #buildinpublic

The FunnelHound app icon: a cartoon dog's white snout with a black nose poking through a translucent orange plastic cone worn like a cone of shame, on a blue rounded square background, with three small white motion marks in the corner.

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emin @emin-builds.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

RevenueCat Support ❤️ reported a paywall issue in the afternoon, had a fix AND an explanation of how it happened 33 minutes later. support that good is rare enough that it deserves a post :) #shipaton #buildinpublic

Two dark mode emails from Jacob at RevenueCat with the timestamps circled in green. At 19 August 2026 17:34 he writes that he is looking into the paywall issue, and at 18:07 that the paywall is fixed and they identified how it happened.

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emin @emin-builds.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Day #48 of "fuck it, let's do this" ok, skipped a posting day but that does not mean work stopped - waiting for paywall fix from RC (super quick reaction time on their end) - app is ready other than that, I am just finding way to make it a tad better before doing the next one

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emin @emin-builds.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Day #46 of "fuck it, let's do this" Pre-order has been updated with new screenshots! As app releases tomorrow, I need to make sure paywall is good enough as well. Cannot go out with the current one 🙃 I really cannot make my mind up on pricing, but I am thinking to only show monthly...nothing else

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emin @emin-builds.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Day #45 of "fuck it, let's do this" Screenshots are HORRID, needs urgent update prior to release. ⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️ And release is in 2 days That is only 2 more coffees...is that enough? ☕️☕️

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emin @emin-builds.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Day #44 of "fuck it, let's do this" - updating the icon after gazzilion variants. - adding some fur - listening to good music with my coffee - getting ready to cleanup the appstore listing (probably tomorrow) #shipaton

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emin @emin-builds.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

new icon, who this? drew the line, this is the final one. even gave the file a _f suffix, and every designer knows exactly what that promise is worth :) #shipaton #buildinpublic

FunnelHound app icon on an iPhone home screen next to the Fitness app: a cartoon dog with its snout poking through an orange funnel worn like a cone of shame, on a blue background.

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emin @emin-builds.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

been quietly obsessed with ambient outpost sites, so i made my own :) runs in the browser, sound is generated live, never repeats. one track for now, more coming. emin-grbo.github.io/app-maker-outpo… curious what the next room should sound like?

Inside a fire lookout cabin full of old radios and CRT monitors, warm sun through big windows over mountain ridges, one lightbulb hanging from the ceiling.

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emin @emin-builds.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

unsure if section headers should be outside of the sections, as in example A, or inside and smaller as in example B? i keep flip flopping every time i open the app :) which one reads better to you? #shipaton #buildinpublic

Two iPhone screens side by side labeled A and B showing the same dark dashboard. A has section headers like Latest purchases outside the cards, B has smaller uppercase headers like Installs by App inside the cards.

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