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Kiru 🇨🇭 @kiruio.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Working on a new fun project.

Kiru 🇨🇭 @kiruio.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

The indie dev paradox: you don't want to talk about your app, but you want downloads. 😅

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Kiru 🇨🇭 @kiruio.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

One of these sets of screenshots perform way better than the other ones, which one?

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Kiru 🇨🇭 @kiruio.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

The boost for my app has ended. time to focus on marketing now.

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Kiru 🇨🇭 @kiruio.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Submitted a few versions of LangDiary (dot com), mainly some bug fixes and crashes I noticed. A new feature is that you can now choose how much the app should change your writing.

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Kiru 🇨🇭 @kiruio.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Life could have been easier if this document.scrollIntoView() function had logical argument names, but nah let's screw over the programmers. Could have had logical names like horizontal and vertical, but instead let's call it block and inline. Makes more sense.

Kiru 🇨🇭 @kiruio.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Starting the week with a positive rating for my language diary app. #buildinpbulic

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Kiru 🇨🇭 @kiruio.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Hi everyone, I built a journaling app to improve my French (works with a bunch of other languages as well): ✍️ Write daily 🧠 Get instant corrections 📈 Learn naturally by reflecting on your day Now live on the App Store → langdiary.com

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how is the product page view going up but the conversion rate going down??? @buildinpublic.com

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You are given a color name and have to guess how it looks like. The closer your guess is the more points you collect.

I submitted ColorGuesser.com (a stupid project I made long time ago) to HN. Give me some love by upvoting: hn.algolia.com?q=colorguesser

colorguesser.com

Guess the color by name

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When App Store insist, you don't comply with the rules, but you do. #buildinpublic

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Kiru 🇨🇭 @kiruio.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

After endless back and forth, I can see my new app LangDiary finally being close to be accepted.Let the App Store gods have mercy with me. if you wanna pre-order go ahead: apps.apple.com/us/app/langu...

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Just submitted the final version to the App Store! What started as a simple idea turned into an MVP, which I launched for pre-order on App Store After spending the past few days polishing everything, it's finally ready to go live.

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Kiru 🇨🇭 @kiruio.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Vibe coding is fun, but fixing bug without understanding the code is a recipe for disaster.

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Kiru 🇨🇭 @kiruio.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

I feel so stupid. Just discovered that TikTok tells you exactly when to post your videos to maximize the interactions.

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Kiru 🇨🇭 @kiruio.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Trying to b consistent here, but it's hard when the numbers fluctuate so much

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Kiru 🇨🇭 @kiruio.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

I started posting random videos on Tiktok, ~250 views is not much, but if I do that every day, that's already 7.5k potential views. #buildinpublic

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Kiru 🇨🇭 @kiruio.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Getting out of my comfort zone. Trying to create some videos talking about my app and how I sue it and showing product updates. The first few videos are going to be horrible quality probably, but worth a try. #buildinpublic.

Kiru 🇨🇭 @kiruio.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Sneaky @Stripe telling you "you have to migrate" by giving you a choice: > Stripe is deprecating usage-records billing. Moving forward, you can migrate to billing meters, our only solution for usage-based billing.

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Kiru 🇨🇭 @kiruio.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Interesting onboarding of CapWords by @thexclu which won the design awards. Here is the video for inspirations.

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Kiru 🇨🇭 @kiruio.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Is vibe-coding just a fancy term for pair programming with an LLM?

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Kiru 🇨🇭 @kiruio.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

The 2024 App Store Transparency Report is interesting. Here are some interesting numbers: 1 out of 4 App Review submission gets rejected. ~63% of the app reviews are for the Performance category ~23% for legal ~19% for Design

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Kiru 🇨🇭 @kiruio.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Refactoring the main screen for my upcoming language diary app. #buildinpublic

Kiru 🇨🇭 @kiruio.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Trying to understand the stripe model (bc I have to migrate some old code). Just discovered this wonderful schema page. It's a bit cumbersome to use and could be improved with some tiny descriptions of what each model describes ... but already miles better than reverse-engineering their docu

Kiru 🇨🇭 @kiruio.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

I am using GitLab or GitHub for most of my projects, I don't remember the landing page when I signed up. My main usage is 99% as git-repo. The rest is issue management and PR-features. Nowadays, when you check the landing page, it's 99% AI and 1% git-repo. Is that their core feature?

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Kiru 🇨🇭 @kiruio.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Elixir is the language where the creator will review your random snippet of code.

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Kiru 🇨🇭 @kiruio.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

We passed the uncanny valley for AI generated recipe images.

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Kiru 🇨🇭 @kiruio.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Is there a platform to track all the lies the Google AI response is telling me?

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Kiru 🇨🇭 @kiruio.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Who is working on the Shopify Tariffs Surcharge plugin? #buildinpublic

Kiru 🇨🇭 @kiruio.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Another app, another truth. This one has majority of the user preferring dark-mode.

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Kiru 🇨🇭 @kiruio.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Submitted a new version of WhatDinner with a discovery tap. The idea is to get daily dinner inspirations. This is a first version, so it's going to be a big buggy. whatdinner.com

Kiru 🇨🇭 @kiruio.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Translated the screenshots to multiple languages. This used to be cumbersome, but now with AI - you understand it less and just trust a statistical machine to produce mostly correct results.

Kiru 🇨🇭 @kiruio.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Experimenting with a spinner wheel to decide on what to eat tonight. Just tried with a lot of recipes, look nice - but also crowded.

Kiru 🇨🇭 @kiruio.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Just launched a new app for pre-order on March 9! (It'll automatically download to your phone once it's ready.) In one sentence: Journaling meets language learning. Already 134 people have signed up—will you be next?

apps.apple.com

‎Language Diary: Writing w/ AI

‎LangDiary – Learn a Language by Journaling LangDiary is a unique journaling app designed to help you improve your writing in a new language. Instead of writing in your native tongue, you express…

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Kiru 🇨🇭 @kiruio.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

I wish Apple would publish data on how prevalent dark-mode is, even better by the App Store category. Here for one of my apps in the last few days: ~18% of the users use dark-mode.

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Kiru 🇨🇭 @kiruio.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

One of my apps had a terrible conversion rate. Turned out I neglected dark-mode and focused too much on adding features. Thanks to the random online user who sent me a screenshot of how looked in dark-mode. Spent a few hours fixing the issue. Hopefully this will increase the conversion rate.

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Kiru 🇨🇭 @kiruio.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Doing an A/B Test for one of my apps. What is the reason for the initial spike and the bouncing back ?

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Kiru 🇨🇭 @kiruio.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

One of my app got a huge spike in impressions. #buildinpublic

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Kiru 🇨🇭 @kiruio.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

I made ogtester.com a few years back, but haven't touched the codebase since then (there are a bunch of bugs ppl have mentioned). Going forward, I want to focus on my apps, so thinking to sell it - but the traffic is too low, any other ideas?

Kiru 🇨🇭 @kiruio.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

My Language Journal app already got 84 pre-orders in two days. 🎉 #buildinpublic btw, apps.apple.com/us/app/langu...