iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Morten Bjerg Gregersen @mortengregersen.dk · 30/08/2026

Never seen before: 3 iMacs on a board 😜

Morten Bjerg Gregersen @mortengregersen.dk · 08/06/2026

Apple released a new Open API spec for the App Store Connect API (4.4), but haven't updated the docs and release notes 😬 This makes my automatic updater for Bagbutik fail, as it gets a 404 for the documentation. I will have to wait... 😅 #WWDC #WWDC26

Error log of the updater showing that the data in the downloaded JSON files (of the documentation site) is not valid JSON (as it is a 404 HTML site)

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Morten Bjerg Gregersen @mortengregersen.dk · 19/05/2026

Experimenting with .glassEffect, tinting and interactivity 😄 Not sure why the flickering happens when I drop it... If anybody has an idea, please give me a hint 🤔

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Morten Bjerg Gregersen @mortengregersen.dk · 19/05/2026

More and more people are using Miniotaur, and one request keeps coming up: a joystick for navigating mazes 🕹️ We get it — your finger can end up covering the path ahead 😅 So I’m giving it a shot 😊 I’ve never built something like this before 💙 #buildinpublic #indiedev #iosdev

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Morten Bjerg Gregersen @mortengregersen.dk · 17/05/2026

Seems like just a big bag of rubble… 🤔

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Morten Bjerg Gregersen @mortengregersen.dk · 17/05/2026

I think I found something in my garden, someone wanted to hide 😬

A thick black plastic bag buried in the garden

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Morten Bjerg Gregersen @mortengregersen.dk · 11/05/2026

It’s my birthday week 🇩🇰🎉 Celebrate with me! For the next week, all in-app purchases and subscriptions in @AppDabApp are around 38% off. No reason to talk about the age - it is just a number... 😉 #iOSDev #macOSDev #IndieDev

A festive birthday-themed graphic featuring a smiling man in a cap and gray sweater posing next to a white 3D stick-figure mascot making a peace sign. The background is bright blue with confetti and balloons, and large handwritten text reads “Happy Birthday!” in white with a cyan underline.

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Morten Bjerg Gregersen @mortengregersen.dk · 17/04/2026

My animated dancing stick figure in SwiftUI is finally coming together! 🕺 Custom animations are not what I do most 😅 What do you think?

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Morten Bjerg Gregersen @mortengregersen.dk · 12/04/2026

Sadly, I won’t be at @deepdishswift.com this year 😔 But I did update the official unofficial app with the new schedule and new style 🤩🩵 Have fun in Chicago 🍕 You can find the app in the App Store: apps.apple.com/app/id644835...

Screenshot of the app running on an iPhone

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Morten Bjerg Gregersen @mortengregersen.dk · 26/03/2026

A new version of the Unofficial app for deepdishswift.com is out with even more leather 😘 apps.apple.com/app/id644835...

Screenshot of Deep Dish Unofficial with a leather navigation bar

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Morten Bjerg Gregersen @mortengregersen.dk · 17/03/2026

When trying to access Apple's "Request a expedited review" site, I immediately gets redirected to a "We'll be back soon" page. It worked yesterday. Maybe they have gotten to many requests the last couple of weeks 😅

Screenshot of the "We'll be back soon" page.

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Morten Bjerg Gregersen @mortengregersen.dk · 16/03/2026

A 189,300% week over week jump in users is not something you expect to see in your inbox 🤩 I had to read that @telemetrydeck.com email a couple of times before it really sank in 😅 #IndieDev #iOSDev #ParentDev

Screenshot from a TelemetryDeck weekly email for Miniotaur showing 3,788 users for the week of 09/03/2026 and 304,862 signals, with a highlighted 189,300% increase in users compared to the previous week.

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Morten Bjerg Gregersen @mortengregersen.dk · 14/03/2026

My son and I just realized, that many people has started downloading our maze app, Miniotaur, the last 2 days 😅 Since launch, not many people had downloaded it, but maybe getting featured in "New games we love" in the App Store does something 🥰 #IndieDev #iOSDev #GameDev

Graph showing number of daily active users going from mostly 0 two days ago, to 1500 today.

Screenshot from App Store showing Miniotaur in the section "New games we love"

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Morten Bjerg Gregersen @mortengregersen.dk · 16/02/2026

Back from a week vacation with my wife and kids 🥰 Submitting new versions of @AppDab.app and Score Wonders for App Review, and continuing "work" on my FaceTime photo-sharing app "Sammen" - almost ready fo TestFlight 🚀 DM me if you want to help me test it out.

AppDab showing new version of AppDab waiting for App Review,

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Morten Bjerg Gregersen @mortengregersen.dk · 07/02/2026

Used the app since Dec 2023. Finally bought Premium Lifetime in Feb 2026. That’s not an impulse buy - that’s a considered relationship. 😄

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Morten Bjerg Gregersen @mortengregersen.dk · 06/02/2026

Next version of @appdab.app will get a "What's New" screen on updates 🎉 This is something I think has been missing, as it has been hard telling users through other channels, all of the changes - posts and App Store "What's new" is not long enough. #buildinpublic #iosdev #indiedev

Screenshot of the What's new screen in AppDab, telling what has changed in the latest versions.

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Morten Bjerg Gregersen @mortengregersen.dk · 03/02/2026

Prototype working! 🎉 My new vibe-coded app uses SharePlay and CloudKit to let a person in a FaceTime call show photos to the other participants 🏞️ Next thing to work on: speed of photo downloading 🚀 (Left Morten is showing photos to Right Morten) #buildinpublic #iosdev #indiedev

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Morten Bjerg Gregersen @mortengregersen.dk · 02/02/2026

While Codex has been working on features, I have been trying to design an icon 😅 Hand drawn and glassified with Icon composer.

Light mode icon (three dots above an image icon above a single dot)

Dark mode icon (three dots above an image icon above a single dot)

Non-tintet icon (three dots above an image icon above a single dot)

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Morten Bjerg Gregersen @mortengregersen.dk · 19/12/2025

Watch this update ship - literally 🚢⌚️🥸

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Morten Bjerg Gregersen @mortengregersen.dk · 22/11/2025

2024–2025 brought work I’m really proud of: 🤖 AppDab Intelligence 🏛️ Score Wonders with expansions 🍕 Deep Dish Unofficial on iOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS & visionOS And building Miniotaur with my son was incredibly meaningful ❤️

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Morten Bjerg Gregersen @mortengregersen.dk · 22/11/2025

Then competition arrived 😬 Someone started building an AppDab competitor 🚢 It hit me harder than expected — sleepless nights, anxiety, and some sessions with a psychologist. But eventually the fear turned into motivation 💪 I shipped some of my best updates.

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Morten Bjerg Gregersen @mortengregersen.dk · 22/11/2025

Then I tried chasing the iOS 17 launch with Akryla 🎨 I pushed myself too hard and completely burned out 😵‍💫 Almost nobody downloaded it. It taught me a big lesson: chasing Apple’s spotlight is not a healthy strategy for me.

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Morten Bjerg Gregersen @mortengregersen.dk · 22/11/2025

Community became my fuel. @DeepDishSwift 🍕, #WWDC23 🍏 — meeting people I’d only known online was transformative. These events gave me support, energy, and the feeling of belonging that I didn’t know I needed.

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Morten Bjerg Gregersen @mortengregersen.dk · 22/11/2025

So I coped the way many indies do: I built more apps. 🏛️ Score Wonders 💬 Talkasy 🍕 Deep Dish Lie 🌸 HeyAIku It became a burst of momentum — frustration turning into creativity.

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Morten Bjerg Gregersen @mortengregersen.dk · 22/11/2025

I had been building @AppDabApp, a fast native App Store Connect client 💻 Launch day was Nov 2022… the same moment Twitter collapsed. Engagement disappeared overnight. The launch fell flat — a huge emotional blow.

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Morten Bjerg Gregersen @mortengregersen.dk · 04/11/2025

I love how easy it is (for a non-designer like me) to create something like this with Icon Composer 🤩

A stack of rounded squares with an "App Store A" on top.

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Morten Bjerg Gregersen @mortengregersen.dk · 14/10/2025

Autumn break disco night in “grandpa’s water park” 🌊 (He works at the holiday resort ❤️) Kids splashing, lights flashing, music pumping – and my Apple Watch warns me it’s too loud 🎧😅

An Apple Watch shows a noise level warning reading “Too loud”. In the blurred background, kids are playing in the water park during a disco with flashing lights and loud music.

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Morten Bjerg Gregersen @mortengregersen.dk · 01/10/2025

Talk about symbolic! Inspired by Greek mythology… 🏛️ and our first transaction comes straight from Greece 🇬🇷😍

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Morten Bjerg Gregersen @mortengregersen.dk · 30/09/2025

And of course, we celebrated the launch — as we do in Denmark 🇩🇰 — with cake, licorice, sour wine gums, and soda, together with our two favorite girls ❤️

Andreas and I with the cake, candy and soda.

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Morten Bjerg Gregersen @mortengregersen.dk · 30/09/2025

It’s launch day! 🚀 Andreas (7yo) and I just released Miniotaur 🏛️ Our father–son app for #Shipaton where you can build, share & escape mazes is now live on the App Store 🤩 Andreas is so thrilled! 🥰 Have a look! ❤️ apps.apple.com/app/id675128... #iOSDev #IndieDev #Shipaton #ParentDev

A poster for the app with image of us, the app icon and screenshots of the app.

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Morten Bjerg Gregersen @mortengregersen.dk · 26/09/2025

Okay, maybe I spent a bit of time on the onboarding... 😅 #iOSDev #IndieDev #Shipaton #ParentDev

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Morten Bjerg Gregersen @mortengregersen.dk · 09/09/2025

Yesterday my son (also) spotted the corner wall glitch 😬 It was an issue with .overlay in SwiftUI, had to fix it today 😅 Walls now render correctly on top of the maze view. Beta sign-ups open in the coming days miniotaur.app #iOSDev #IndieDev #Shipaton #ParentDev

A maze showing walls not overlapping in bottom right corners.

A maze showing walls overlapping in all corners.

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Morten Bjerg Gregersen @mortengregersen.dk · 25/08/2025

I scored a @revenuecat.com’s #Shipaton bonus 🥰 While preparing my new app in @appdab.app, I was reminded that export-compliance was missing - so the latest version now lets you manage it smoothly 🤩 Plus, right now, AppDab Pro with Intelligence is free for your first 3 months! 🚀

Screenshot showing the "Add export compliance" sheet in AppDab

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Morten Bjerg Gregersen @mortengregersen.dk · 24/08/2025

This annoying root will be an offer for an “axe-ident” 🪓 (dad joke)

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Morten Bjerg Gregersen @mortengregersen.dk · 20/08/2025

After a few experiments with the maze data model, I wired it up to the UI — and boom: our first draft of drawing paths! 🤩 Watching my son hold the app for the first time and whisper “whoa” was everything ❤️ #shipaton #BuildInPublic #IndieDev #iOSDev #ParentDev

App screenshot showing drawn paths in the labyrinth

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Morten Bjerg Gregersen @mortengregersen.dk · 18/08/2025

@appdab.app for iOS 26 & macOS Tahoe is coming soon with Apple's beautiful Liquid Glass design! 🤩 Experience better navigation, enhanced reliability, and a beautiful new interface 🚀 Let me know what you think! #indiedev #iosdev #SwiftUI Join the beta: appdab.app/os26

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Morten Bjerg Gregersen @mortengregersen.dk · 18/08/2025

First pixels! Not pretty 😬 but we had a digital version of my son’s hand drawn UI with tools and dots ✍ That felt like magic to him 🪄 #shipaton #BuildInPublic #IndieDev #iOSDev #ParentDev

Early app screenshot with a simple grid and toolbar.

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Morten Bjerg Gregersen @mortengregersen.dk · 15/08/2025

It started with a grid notebook I got from @appfigures.com at @deepdishswift.com last year. My son filled it with mazes — I tried them... and we thought: what if we built an app to create and share mazes? That’s our project for @revenuecat.com #shipaton 😻 #BuildInPublic #IndieDev #iOSDev #ParentDev

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Morten Bjerg Gregersen @mortengregersen.dk · 12/08/2025

My son and I are working together this year on an app for @revenuecat.com’s #shipaton 😻 It’s based on something he’s spent many hours on during car rides over the past year 🚗 #BuildInPublic #IndieDev #iOSDev #ParentDev

My son drawing walls between dots on a grid page.

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Morten Bjerg Gregersen @mortengregersen.dk · 14/07/2025

Sweden 🇸🇪 has some weird restaurants…

A sign saying: “Pinchos - the app restaurant”

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Morten Bjerg Gregersen @mortengregersen.dk · 05/07/2025

With the kids at summer camp, it is time to assemble my new T-Rex #Lego set 🦖🧱 and watch some #WWDC25 videos 😊 And yes, I tore open all the bags and sorted them by color and size, like a mad man 😅

A bunch of boxes with Lego bricks and a computer showing a video in the background.

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Morten Bjerg Gregersen @mortengregersen.dk · 16/06/2025

I feel a bit sherlocked 😅 heyaiku.app Snippet from #WWDC25 session "Meet the Foundation Models framework" ❤️

Snippet from #WWDC25 session "Meet the Foundation Models framework"

let session = LanguageModelSession()

let firstHaiku = try await session.respond(to: "Write a haiku about fishing")
print(firstHaiku.content)
// Silent waters gleam,
// Casting lines in morning mist—
// Hope in every cast.

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Morten Bjerg Gregersen @mortengregersen.dk · 12/06/2025

Glass-Dab! 😍 Spent less than an hour retracing the stick figure in the @appdab.app icon, dropping it into Icon Composer and tweaked some settings 🚀 Any thoughts? #WWDC25 #iOS26 #macOSTahoe

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Morten Bjerg Gregersen @mortengregersen.dk · 17/05/2025

Love that the Eurovision has a song about @appdab.app 🥰

The stage of Eurovision 2025 showing a big "DAB" and some dancers doing a dab

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Morten Bjerg Gregersen @mortengregersen.dk · 14/05/2025

Just got the @helm-app.bsky.social iOS beta email, and I’m honored to see my name hardcoded into the app 🥰 But no worries, I always use @appdab.app to ship my apps on iOS too 🚀😉

Screenshot of Helm on iOS showing the text "Sorry Morten... Please use your own app 👋"

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Morten Bjerg Gregersen @mortengregersen.dk · 13/05/2025

Over night Apple broke the link to the OpenAPI Spec for the App Store Connect API so it redirects to the Sample Code Library... 😬 It breaks my automatic monitoring and regeneration of Bagbutik (bagbutik.dev). Reported as FB17592618, if anybody from Apple sees this 🙏

Screenshot of the feedback reported to Apple

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Morten Bjerg Gregersen @mortengregersen.dk · 11/05/2025

Celebrating my 37th trip around the sun! 🎉 To share the joy, grab 3 months of @appdab.app Pro (with Intelligence) on me 🎁 and ship apps faster! 🚀 Click the link to redeem and repost to spread the birthday magic! ❤️ apps.apple.com/redeem/?ctx=... Remember first app is always free 🥰

A cartoony image of me in my office in front of my old Macs and iPhones, with the AppDab icon in front, a big "37" and a badge with a layered cake and the text "3-month Pro gift"

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