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Matthew Pierce

@lookwhatmattmade.com
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iOS dev 📱 | Senior engineer @ Intercom 👷‍♂️ | Building apps on the side while my children sleep 😴 📱🚫 trytimeout.com

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Matthew Pierce @lookwhatmattmade.com · 19/06/2026
A big ol’ list of ideas for TikTok. Time to take Time Out and really try make a push with it #buildinpublic #indiedev #marketing
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Matthew Pierce @lookwhatmattmade.com · 11/06/2026
Using Veninto to find new Time Out customers today! You can too veninto.com trytimeout.com #buildinpublic
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Veninto — Turn Bluesky conversations into customers.
Veninto monitors Bluesky in real time for your keywords, filters for genuine intent, and drafts replies for your approval. From mention to draft in 2 seconds.
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Matthew Pierce @lookwhatmattmade.com · 10/06/2026
Veninto is actively helping me get users on Veninto!! Check it out and sign up for early access if you're looking for new users too! www.veninto.com #buildinpublic #saas #bluesky #betatest
veninto.com
Veninto — Turn Bluesky conversations into customers.
Veninto monitors Bluesky in real time for your keywords, filters for genuine intent, and drafts replies for your approval. From mention to draft in 2 seconds.
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Matthew Pierce @lookwhatmattmade.com · 08/06/2026
Hey folks 👋 I'm looking for a few people to test out a new service I built to help find customers on Bluesky. If you're interested, feel free to sign up or shoot me a DM here. www.veninto.com
veninto.com
Veninto — Turn Bluesky conversations into customers.
Veninto monitors Bluesky in real time for your keywords, filters for genuine intent, and drafts replies for your approval. From mention to draft in 2 seconds.
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Matthew Pierce @lookwhatmattmade.com · 02/06/2026
I did a "fail fast" thing that makes me feel like I'm shipping fast.... while I joke by using the terminology baked all over the internet, I actually did do these things and it was pretty cool. A 🧵
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Matthew Pierce @lookwhatmattmade.com · 22/05/2026
I was a critic of Liquid Glass when it came out and it’s still not great. But some apps have done well with it. I think WhatsApp and Reddit do it well #ios #liquidgass
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Matthew Pierce @lookwhatmattmade.com · 26/03/2026
Ugh, the only good thing about the update to AppStore Connect analytics is now it lives in the app tab. The overview having no way to change the time series makes no sense. Why does it default to last 90 days?? Saved views are gone. Active sessions are gone. Hour by hour view is gone. #iosdev
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Matthew Pierce @lookwhatmattmade.com · 05/03/2026
Amazing. No notes. @adafruit.com 👏👏👏
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Matthew Pierce @lookwhatmattmade.com · 19/02/2026
Ever since Opus 4.6 dropped, it seems like my Pro plan 5 hour limit gets hit super fast. I thought switching back to Sonnet (even though it's also 4.6 now) would have helped, but still going faaaaast. Have usage limits changed? #claude #claudecode #anthropic
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Matthew Pierce @lookwhatmattmade.com · 16/02/2026
Monday morning. Designing a landing page for new ASO tool. When I say “designing” I mean letting pencil.dev design the whole thing for me. #indiedev #aso
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Matthew Pierce @lookwhatmattmade.com · 09/02/2026
This is driving me nuts lately. Trial goes to convert and then “billing error”. I’m assuming the user has a disposable card or something like that, but grrrrr #indiedev #sideproject #appstore #revenuecat
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Matthew Pierce @lookwhatmattmade.com · 09/02/2026
Don't miss out on claiming $50 free extra usage for Claude Code! Just spotted it this morning #claude #claudecode
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Matthew Pierce @lookwhatmattmade.com · 06/02/2026
It's great that Xcode can now work with Claude, but is it somehow dumber? There's no plan mode, which is annoying and it seems to be going in circles with Opus - I think I might be switching back to command line Claude Code for iOS, this somehow seems poor.
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Matthew Pierce @lookwhatmattmade.com · 02/02/2026
I played with www.pencil.dev to see if it could be my AI designer and it's awesome. It uses your current Claude Code subscription and gets to work. I asked it to design a site I want to build to allow iOS devs to dump keywords in and it organises them into title, subtitle and keywords
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Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦 @mackuba.eu · 31/01/2026
Me when another crypto exchange emails me that I urgently need to provide some documents with personal information
Old Captain America saying "no, I don't think I will"
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Matthew Pierce @lookwhatmattmade.com · 30/01/2026
Bluesky in the last couple months has really started to feel like the bird site 10 years ago. Awesome people building awesome things and I want to use all of them. Can’t remember the last time I’ve started this many git repos. More of this please, I’m here for it. #buildinpublic #indiedev
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Matthew Pierce @lookwhatmattmade.com · 26/01/2026
Notifications for lock events coming soon to Time Out 👀 #indiedev #iosdev
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Matthew Pierce @lookwhatmattmade.com · 19/01/2026
Really this title should be "Social media edges out deep fake child porn app" but hey, I guess we're still pretending X isn't some sort of cesspit
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Matthew Pierce @lookwhatmattmade.com · 19/01/2026
Ahhh another day, another realisation there's a way to use Time Out without fully paying for it 🫠 #indiedev #paywall #idiot
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Matthew Pierce @lookwhatmattmade.com · 18/01/2026
I rarely look at the benchmarks page but these numbers look pretty sweet!!
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Matthew Pierce @lookwhatmattmade.com · 17/01/2026
Indie app devs waiting for trials to convert to hit their milestones #indiedev
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Matthew Pierce @lookwhatmattmade.com · 16/01/2026
People talk about their App Store conversion rate all the time but that’s just one conversion rate of impressions / downloads. Really you want to see the whole funnel which is what you can see here for Time Out. (1/n) #AppStore #iosdev #indiedev
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Matthew Pierce @lookwhatmattmade.com · 16/01/2026
If I change my currency from euro to dollars then I’m over $100 MRR…. That counts right??? 😂😂 #indiedev #mrr #sideproject
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Matthew Pierce @lookwhatmattmade.com · 12/01/2026
It’s happening #applesearchads
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Matthew Pierce @lookwhatmattmade.com · 10/01/2026
Couldn’t agree more with an article. Sick behaviour from spineless cowards. Great writing @theverge.com / @lopatto.bsky.social www.theverge.com/policy/85990... #x #grok #apple #google #elonmusk
theverge.com
Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards
Once you’ve traded your principles for proximity to power, do you even run your own company?
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Matthew Pierce @lookwhatmattmade.com · 10/01/2026
There’s so many tools out there for ASO keywords research, but I want a tool that will build me title, subtitle and keywords in the best possible way given a list of keywords with some data on them, such as where I rank, difficulty and volume. Does this exist?
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Matthew Pierce @lookwhatmattmade.com · 10/01/2026
I’ve started to build up a bit of a cash reserve from the few months of Time Out’s revenue and want to figure out the best way to deploy it. We’re talking a couple hundred €’s not thousands.
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Matthew Pierce @lookwhatmattmade.com · 08/01/2026
A sad day when you remove your first app from the store. But it was time. Zero monetisation and costing me ~$25 a month to run. Plus fallen into disrepair 😢 #indiedev #sideproject
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Matthew Pierce @lookwhatmattmade.com · 04/01/2026
Genuinely forgot I write these down at the end of last year, but they’re the values I work by when addressing side projects. They’ve helped me stay on track. The first two are the most important to me. #indiedeveloper #sideproject #values
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Matthew Pierce @lookwhatmattmade.com · 03/01/2026
Indie developer goals for 2025: 1) Get Time Out to 1K MRR. Might seem small to others. Big deal for me. 2) Launch 2 more things I’ve been mulling over 3) Combined projects hit 5K MRR #indiedeveloper #newyearsresolution
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Matthew Pierce @lookwhatmattmade.com · 02/01/2026
Apple search ads keywords recommendations are truly awful. Here are the top ones ordered by “estimated installs” for a campaign I’m running on Time Out. Completely unrelated. Plus they have square brackets denoting I should use exact match 🤷‍♂️ #applesearchads #indiedev #advertising #marketing
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Matthew Pierce @lookwhatmattmade.com · 30/12/2025
Is it safe to say that the "wrapped" fad has gone too far now if I'm being offered my Raycast wrapped?
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Matthew Pierce @lookwhatmattmade.com · 29/12/2025
It ain’t much. But it’s passive income over the Christmas, which is far more than happened least year! Onwards and upwards. #indiedev #iosdev
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Matthew Pierce @lookwhatmattmade.com · 19/12/2025
App Store Connect rant continued: the app is primitive in what you can see and do. So I have to use the site on my phone. So how, seriously how, is a site build for managing MOBILE apps so not mobile friendly??? 🤷 #iosdev #indiedev #appstoreconnect
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Matthew Pierce @lookwhatmattmade.com · 18/12/2025
Imagine if one magical day there was a “remember me” option on this page so you didn’t need to re-authenticate multiple times a day ✨✨ #iosdev #appstoreconnect
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Matthew Pierce @lookwhatmattmade.com · 17/12/2025
Couple cancellations with Time Out recently 🫠trying to not let it bring me down. Feels like I haven’t had a nice run of trial sign ups in a while. A new years ad push with proceeds so far might be the way to go, but I’m all ears to other ideas!! #iosdev #indiedev
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Matthew Pierce @lookwhatmattmade.com · 16/12/2025
New app stats. Built in three hours ✨ Need to do a bit of a push on ASO but could be cool to see this increase. Built purely from keyword analysis and spotted a little gap. Check it out here apps.apple.com/ie/app/age-c... #indiedev #iosdev
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Matthew Pierce @lookwhatmattmade.com · 15/12/2025
This evening’s work: focus at both ends of the funnel. App Store screenshots and paywall. Let’s go. #iosdev #indiedev
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Matthew Pierce @lookwhatmattmade.com · 14/12/2025
Why does AppStore Collect analytics default to show you top level stuff by month but then click into benchmarks and you can only break it down by week??
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Matthew Pierce @lookwhatmattmade.com · 14/12/2025
Why is there no Mixpanel iOS app?
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Matthew Pierce @lookwhatmattmade.com · 14/12/2025
When you achievable disable your paywall for 4 days 😬😬😬 Enjoy Time Out you lucky 22 people #indiedev #merryxmas
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Matthew Pierce @lookwhatmattmade.com · 01/12/2025
This took 30 minutes to build and has proven invaluable. Definitely doing it for all my apps going forward and you should too!
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Matthew Pierce @lookwhatmattmade.com · 28/11/2025
Ugh running out of steam with marketing pushes for Time Out lately Like impressions are up and up each month #buildinpublic
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Matthew Pierce @lookwhatmattmade.com · 13/11/2025
There’s some nice updates in this one. Download here apps.apple.com/ie/app/time-... #indiedev #iosdev #screentime
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Matthew Pierce @lookwhatmattmade.com · 03/11/2025
Time Out’s been updated with some nice UI improvements! Check it out 👇👇👇 apps.apple.com/ie/app/time-... #iosdev #indiedev #sideproject #screentime
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Matthew Pierce @lookwhatmattmade.com · 29/10/2025
Time to tweak some onboarding now I’ve got proper funnel metrics in place 🪄 📈 #timeout #indiedev
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Matthew Pierce @lookwhatmattmade.com · 27/10/2025
I just launched on Peer Push🚀 Check out Time Out App: Transform phone addiction into fitness motivation Launched on @peerpush_net: peerpush.net/p/time-out-app #indiedeveloper #indiedev #launchday #saas #screentime #ios #iosdev
peerpush.net
Time Out App - Transform phone addiction into fitness motivation
Unlock a revolutionary approach to managing phone usage with Time Out, the exercise-based app blocker for iPhone. This innovative tool turns screen time into fitness time by requiring physical activity to unlock distracting applications. You can set customized exercise goals that must be met before regaining access to apps you've designated as time sinks. Time Out fundamentally changes your relationship with your phone, converting passive scrolling into active movement. No more mindlessly wasting hours; instead, each potential distraction becomes an opportunity to move and improve your health. You'll find yourself more motivated to engage in physical activity, knowing it directly impacts your ability to use your device. This app provides a unique solution for anyone struggling with digital distractions, offering a healthy and proactive way to regain control. It helps you build better habits, reduce screen addiction, and integrate more fitness into your daily routine, promoting both mental well-being and physical health.
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Matthew Pierce @lookwhatmattmade.com · 24/10/2025
For figuring out my churn or bounce rate, this has been invaluable! Really didn’t think people would take the time to fill out the quick google form, but they did!
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Matthew Pierce @lookwhatmattmade.com · 10/10/2025
It’s Friday. What have you been working on for the week? Show your work - loud and proud! #buildinpublic #indiedev #sideproject
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Matthew Pierce @lookwhatmattmade.com · 07/10/2025
New HIG just dropped #hig #appdev #chatgpt #openai #ai developers.openai.com/apps-sdk/con...
developers.openai.com
App design guidelines
Design guidelines for developers building on the Apps SDK.
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