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Martin Höller

@martinhoeller.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

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🇦🇹 Freelance macOS/iOS developer based in Florence 🇮🇹, creator of meeting reminder app In Your Face (inyourface.app). 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mastodon.social/@martinhoeller, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Martin Höller @martinhoeller.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Pocket Jam 6 is out! The headline feature is Song Analysis, which I teased a few weeks ago. It figures out a song's tempo, key and sections, so you can jump straight to the part you want to practice and loop it. There's also a built-in metronome, a new […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A guitarist plays an electric guitar in a dim room at night. Next to him: the Pocket Jam app icon with a "Version 6" badge and "iPhone · iPad · Mac", then the headline "Know every song inside out." Below that, three features: Song Analysis (tempo, key & sections), a built-in Metronome, and Light Mode (fresh new look).

Martin Höller @martinhoeller.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Pocket Jam 6 is out! The headline feature is Song Analysis, which I teased a few weeks ago. It figures out a song's tempo, key and sections, so you can jump straight to the part you want to practice and loop it. There's also a built-in metronome, a new […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A guitarist plays an electric guitar in a dim room at night. Next to him: the Pocket Jam app icon with a "Version 6" badge and "iPhone · iPad · Mac", then the headline "Know every song inside out." Below that, three features: Song Analysis (tempo, key & sections), a built-in Metronome, and Light Mode (fresh new look).

Martin Höller @martinhoeller.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

I had a stupid amount of fun making the transition between dark and light mode on the Pocket Jam website 🤪

Martin Höller @martinhoeller.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

And Pocket Jam finally has a proper home of its own: pocketjam.app The new website shows off what the app can do, has a press kit for anyone who wants to write about it, and a bunch of practice guides for guitarists, bassists and singers. Let me know what you think! #indiedev […]

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Martin Höller @martinhoeller.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Last night at 2am I was woken up in my hotel bed in #berlin from loud noises and shouting from the adjacent room. I quickly realized that the man was getting violent towards the woman. There was crying, it sounded like he was pushing here around, and at some point he yelled “you have to kiss my […]

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Martin Höller @martinhoeller.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Oh crap… there is an iPhone Duo workshop in Berlin the 6th of October. I happen to be in the city and even would have time that day, but the waitlist is full 😢

Martin Höller @martinhoeller.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

I'm really proud of this one. Pocket Jam is soon getting a Song Analysis feature. It will figure out key, tempo and song sections. This makes it even easier to practice and loop specific parts of a song. It even comes with a nice sections editor in case the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Screenshot of the main Pocket Jam window, showing key, tempo and sections of a song.

Screenshot of the Pocket Jam sections editor.

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Martin Höller @martinhoeller.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

The nice folks at Setapp invited me to share my story of why I made In Your Face: setapp.com/tech-talks/in-your-face-…

In Your Face: the meeting reminder app you can't ignore

How one weekend prototype became a full-screen meeting reminder trusted by remote workers and the ADHD community — the story from founder Martin Höller.

Martin Höller @martinhoeller.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

The nice folks at Setapp invited me to share my story of why I made In Your Face: setapp.com/tech-talks/in-your-face-…

In Your Face: the meeting reminder app you can't ignore

How one weekend prototype became a full-screen meeting reminder trusted by remote workers and the ADHD community — the story from founder Martin Höller.

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Lum @brokentoys.social · 10/09/2026

Ein Reich Ein Volk Ein Linux-Distro

Screenshot of a post by DHH (@dhh) that reads:

The Omarchy Doctrine

Unite the nerds
Hold the line
Have some fun
Beauty is truth
Heritage is duty
Command is service
Welcome the agents
Perfect the computer
Own the machine
You’re somebody now

Below the text is a banner with pixel art lettering that spells out "OMARCHY" in a gradient of peach, orange, and dark grey against a dark background with scattered orange pixel embers.

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Pasi Salenius @pasi.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

It makes me sad to see someone who is a Mac app developer complain here that some indie app has bugs or doesn’t work the way they expect. Send feedback to the developer. Tell them what doesn’t work and help them figure it out. Work with them instead of announcing to the world that their app is […]

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Martin Höller @martinhoeller.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

We got our in-laws a printer to which we can send photos of our daughter via email and it prints it immediately without interacting. It’s a glorified fax.

Martin Höller @martinhoeller.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

Happy to see that @inyourface is also included in the current App Store productivity collection! #indiedev #apple #Mac #productivity

Mac App Store screenshot showing the "Get productive with these awesome apps" collection

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Martin Höller @martinhoeller.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

Are there any #musicians here who practice their instruments along with backing tracks or original song recordings? I’m working on some new improvements to Pocket Jam, my music practice app, and I’d love to get some feedback from #beta testers. You’ll need a Mac, iPhone, or iPad […]

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Martin Höller @martinhoeller.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

Are there any #musicians here who practice their instruments along with backing tracks or original song recordings? I’m working on some new improvements to Pocket Jam, my music practice app, and I’d love to get some feedback from #beta testers. You’ll need a Mac, iPhone, or iPad […]

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Martin Höller @martinhoeller.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

At long last… I'm working on multiple alerts per event in In Your Face. This I a huge feature, requested by many users since years. Let's see how this one turns out… #buildinpublic #indiedev

Screenshot of the "Support for multiple alerts" ticket in the "In Progress" column

Martin Höller @martinhoeller.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

So are App Store review times back to normal or was I just lucky? I've submitted an update to In Your Face for both Mac and iOS yesterday, and both were reviewed and approved within 12 hours.

Martin Höller @martinhoeller.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

My mother in law is watching #AI generated Spanish soap operas on Instagram and it’s the cringiest thing I have ever seen.

Martin Höller @martinhoeller.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

Yay! 9to5Mac featured my musical practice app Pocket Jam! #indiedev #iPhone #Mac 9to5mac.com/2026/08/08/indie-app-sp…

Indie App Spotlight: ‘Pocket Jam’ helps you learn and practice your favorite songs

_Welcome toIndie App Spotlight. This is a weekly 9to5Mac series where we showcase the latest apps in the indie app world. If you’re a developer and would like your app featured, get in contact_. * * * If you’re an aspiring musician, Pocket Jam might be something you find useful. It helps you turn your favorite songs into a practice tool, letting you slow down, change the pitch, loop, and dissect tracks as you learn them.

Martin Höller @martinhoeller.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

[Pet death] This is Teddy, who stayed with us for the last 7 years. He left us today, completely unexpected, while chilling with us on the couch. He will be dearly missed 😢

Martin Höller @martinhoeller.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

Any tech or #music writers interested in covering the upcoming major update to Pocket Jam, my musical practice app for iOS and Mac? It’s also the first major release since I acquired the app earlier this year, featuring an interactive waveform view, a […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Screenshot of Pocket Jam. It shows playlists, songs in the currently selected playlist and the playback view of the selected song.

Martin Höller @martinhoeller.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026

Liftoff 🚀

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Martin Höller @martinhoeller.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026

Question for fellow solo #indie #devs: Have you made any arrangements for what happens to your business if you're incapacitated for an extended period, for example if you're in a coma, or in the event of your death? Right now, my business would effectively die with me, and I'd like to avoid […]

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Martin Höller @martinhoeller.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026

Question for fellow solo #indie #devs: Have you made any arrangements for what happens to your business if you're incapacitated for an extended period, for example if you're in a coma, or in the event of your death? Right now, my business would effectively die with me, and I'd like to avoid […]

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Martin Höller @martinhoeller.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026

I've bought 2 apps from another developer. For my piano practice I was looking for an app to easily modify pitch/tempo of a song. I found Pocket Jam, but being made for iOS, the experience on Mac wan't great. So instead of making my own app I just reached out to the dev, asking if he'd want to […]

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Martin Höller @martinhoeller.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2026

I have multiple people per week asking me to cancel their trial of In Your Face. The app doesn’t even have an App Store trial. To try, user can just fully use the app until they saw 10 alerts. Even if it had a normal subscription trial I couldn’t cancel it on the user‘s behalf. I’m now […]

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Martin Höller @martinhoeller.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2026

@matt_birchler I've now finally had time to implement the "Next Up" feature in the Mac version of @inyourface. Not sure how you originally intended it, but it appears when pressing the keyboard combo, and disappears when you let go. The interaction is so fun that I sometimes just play with it 😂

In Your Face's "Next Up" feature: A small popover showing the next upcoming calendar event.

Martin Höller @martinhoeller.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/06/2026

For a freelance client, I’m currently working on some hard-to-crack problems and complex flows. Even though I have #Codex available, I don’t quite trust it with this particular task. So I’ve been heads down in the code, earphones on, fully focused for long stretches, just like in the old days […]

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Martin Höller @martinhoeller.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/06/2026

Dear #fediverse, I need a favor. Apparently In Your Face was featured in a newsletter by @theverge yesterday. Unfortunately it seems they don't have an archive, so I can't see it. Is anyone here a subscriber and can forward me issue or a screenshot of the relevant part? Thanks 🙏🙏🙏

Martin Höller @martinhoeller.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/05/2026

Dear #fediverse, I need your help. For presentation slides, what presentation software are you using, e.g. when presenting at conferences, meetups but also at work? I'm looking for suggestions other than Keynote and PowerPoint.

Martin Höller @martinhoeller.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/05/2026

I‘m currently at my family‘s house and went spelunking in the basement. Found my old #Apple stuff 😄

Martin Höller @martinhoeller.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/05/2026

I’ve got a new app in the works. Basically it’s a remote control thingy for iOS that makes some stuff happen on your Mac. Technically these are two apps, the main iOS app and a Mac background app that receives the commands from the phone and reacts to them. The Mac app itself has no other […]

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Martin Höller @martinhoeller.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/05/2026

I've had a really great time at @swiftcraft again. Beautiful location and great speakers. I've made a bunch of new friends and met some old ones. A big thanks to the organizers and I'm already looking forward to next time!

Martin Höller @martinhoeller.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/05/2026

Good news. That critical bugfix update for In Your Face was approved. Now let’s hope that it actually fixes the remaining issues for everyone 🤞

Martin Höller @martinhoeller.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/05/2026

I‘m getting a bit desperate here. I got a critical bugfix update for In Your Face rejected because of a UI copy issue which can be fixed also with the next version. I’ve replied to the rejection and asked to have it approved this time. Nothing is moving since 3 days and I’m getting more and more […]

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Ellen Shapiro @designatednerd.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/05/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@martinhoeller/1165… Hey Fruit Stand friends, can anyone help out Martin? I kind of rely on In Your Face to get myself to meetings, and it’s obnoxious to have a critical bug fix get hung up on a copy issue

Martin Höller @martinhoeller.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/05/2026

I made an oopsie in the latest In Your Face release. There were some issues which caused the app to silently crash, which in turn resulted in people missing meetings. The last two days were incredibly stressful, trying to fix the issues, answer support emails and waiting for Apple to approve […]

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Martin Höller @martinhoeller.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/04/2026

BETA TESTERS WANTED. Pls boost and share! I've now officially launched the public beta of @inyourface for #Windows. It's available on the Microsoft Store here: apps.microsoft.com/detail/9P0SXW4LC… If you have meetings and are on Windows, please give it a try. Bonus points if you have […]

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Martin Höller @martinhoeller.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/04/2026

Finally after almost 2 months (5 months considering all other issues I had), Microsoft managed to sort out my developer account and I could upload the first version of @inyourface for #Windows for store certification 🤞 #buildinpublic #indiedev #windowsdev

screenshot from Microsoft Partner Portal of In Your Face waiting for certification

Martin Höller @martinhoeller.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/04/2026

Great job, Microsoft 🤦

Microsoft's captcha. I have to prove I'm human by pressing and holding a button. But instead of the button there is just a placeholder "missing image"

Martin Höller @martinhoeller.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/03/2026

I've got the funniest feature request ever for @inyourface 😂 Of course I'm already on it. #indiedev #buildinpublic

Feature request: I'd like to set custom sounds for the reminders; specifically, the BBC News intro. It will please me and annoy my
coworkers, which in turn would only please me further.

Martin Höller @martinhoeller.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/03/2026

So here’s how I fell for that scam 🧵 A couple of days ago I received an email, seemingly from Stephen Robles (www.youtube.com/@beardfm), proposing to include my app in his upcoming Top Apps video. It looked completely legit, written in perfect […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Martin Höller @martinhoeller.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/03/2026

Just a warning to all app #devs: I’ve just been scammed for a PayPal gift card by someone impersonating Stephen Robles @stephenrobles (beard.fm) through very legit looking emails. In hindsight it was very stupid and there were clear warning signs, but luckily the damage was limited to […]

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Martin Höller @martinhoeller.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/03/2026

#Codex usage limit weirdness continues. Now I'm back on a weekly usage quota and it reset again to 100% today cc @stroughtonsmith

Martin Höller @martinhoeller.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/03/2026

Huh… did I miss something? Instead of a 1W limit, #Codex now shows a 2W limit.

Martin Höller @martinhoeller.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/03/2026

Experimenting with a new micro animation for @inyourface #buildinpublic #indiedev #design

Martin Höller @martinhoeller.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/03/2026

Oh no, is #Codex threatening me? 😱

A screenshot of Codex output, saying
open my $fh, "<: encoding (UTF-8)",$p or die$!

Martin Höller @martinhoeller.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/02/2026

Last week's John Romero interview inspired me to finally make that very long overdue media coverage page: www.inyourface.app/media-coverage #indiedev

Articles, videos, podcasts, and blog posts covering In Your Face.

Martin Höller @martinhoeller.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/02/2026

🚨 Testers wanted! I'm currently adding direct support for Google & Microsoft accounts into @inyourface and it needs to be tested in the wild. Requirements - you are on Mac - you have meetings you need alerts for - you use Microsoft (365, Hotmail, Live etc) or Google calendars Bonus points if […]

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Martin Höller @martinhoeller.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/02/2026

While I'm having some fun building for #Windows, I still hate the system with the heat of a thousand suns. Today it randomly started dropping the WiFi connection every now and then, and sometimes it forgets about external screen connected via USB-C.