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Romain @romains.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

After spending most of the time building the gameplay on the server, I needed to test that everything works correctly. Asked Cursor to make me a quick screen, it's ugly but hey it works ! Next step is making this look like a game 😅 #buildinpublic

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Romain @romains.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

I spent last week mostly working on the API part of my game, since I'm going to build a Multiplayer Idle RPG, API is the cumberstone of the game and it's also where I have the least experience 😅 Good thing AI is there to guide me ! Not much to show for the #shipaton yet ! #buildinpublic

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Romain @romains.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

For my #shipaton game I mainly use Gemini to brainstorm and discuss how I should create the game's architecture. The context size is perfect for these kind of tasks. It knows most of the gameplay and helps me write the prompts for cursor. #buildinpublic

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Romain @romains.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

For the #shipaton, I'm making a game ! I was always a fan of Idle games and MMOs, and for years i wanted to make my own idle game, I started a few times, but always abandoned. This time i'm sharing my journey to building my dream idle game ! #buildinpublic

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Romain @romains.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

New app waiting for review, tried to go back to fixing my own problems. The only app I have that makes money is the one I built for myself and that I use pretty often. Same philosophy will apply to my #shipaton app ! #buildinpublic

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Romain @romains.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Renewed my App Store membership, just in time for the #shipaton ! #buildinpublic

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Romain @romains.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

I have one week of vacation from my 9-5 starting this evening. Hoping to release two new apps 💪 All the features are almost done, but the most important parts aren't done yet: Onboarding & Paywall ! #buildinpublic

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Romain @romains.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Apple Payday 🎉 First month where I pass the 100€ mark, not much compared to a lot of people here but I'm pretty happy with it ! And next month should be even more. #buildinpublic

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Romain @romains.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

I'm trying to code in the train but my internet connection though otherwise Having to code myself is so slow... #buidlinpublic

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Romain @romains.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Google is way faster to do reviews than Apple, shipped an update during lunch break, it got approved during the afternoon. Hoping I get it approved on the App Store before tomorrow 🤞 #buildinpublic

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Romain @romains.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

My experience with cursor and custom rules 😥 #buildinpublic

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Romain @romains.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Remade my screenshots experiments saturday morning, hoping for them to be approved quickly to immediately get feedback during the weekend (when I get the most downloads) and Apple took 2 days to approve them... The joy of App Building 😥 #buildinpublic

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Romain @romains.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

A lot of people are sleeping on Android, but for me it bring much more revenue per download than iOS. I get 1/2 of my revenue from Android for only a 1/10 of the downloads. Lifetime offers seem to work much better there (no subscriptions) #buildinpublic

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Romain @romains.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Last week I've made new App Store Screenshots and started an experiment to see if they convert better or not. They do not ! Back to design again ! #buildinpublic

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Romain @romains.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Finally managed to change my developer account on the Play Store to an Organization ! No more finding 12 testers and waiting 14 days to release an app ! #buildinpublic

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Romain @romains.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Last week I had a small bug in my app and two people reached out to me about it, fixed their issue and asked them for a review if they had a few minutes to spare. They both left a one praising my reactivity 🔥 Is this a new stategy to get reviews ?! #buildinpublic

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Romain @romains.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Finally reached 1000$ of revenue across my apps 🔥 Might not be more for a lot of people here, but for my small side projects I'm pretty happy with it ! No life changing money, but hey at least I'm not loosing money anymore 😅

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Romain @romains.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Working on two projects at the same time, sending the wrong instruction to Cursor got him confused 😅 #buildinpublic

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Romain @romains.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Been avoid the AI trend for months, guess it's time to finally build some AI wrapper 👀 I never did because I thought I wouldn't use them myself but after having another plant die in my house, having a Plant Identifier / Care app can't hurt 😅 #buildinpublic

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Romain @romains.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

After reading @arielmichaeli.bsky.social's article on the new ASO change regarding App Store Screenshots I decided to redo all the screenshots for Scory ! Localized them using Picasso, let's see if his really boosts ASO, but i'm confident it'll boost at least the conversion rate. #buildinpublic

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Romain @romains.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Been a month since my last post 😥 Still shipping tho, my DeskHub has never been so green. I just didn't find the time and motivation to post, I'll try to schedule some post from now on and keep a streak ! 🔥 #buildinpublic

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Romain @romains.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

New version of Scory is out ! New features, new onboarding and new pricing, let's hope it converts better ! Still waiting for Apple's approval though, but available on Android ! #buildinpublic

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Romain @romains.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Google Play downloads start going up in the last weeks ! Didn't change anything, didn't push an update for two months so no real explanation but hey i'll take it ! Do you know any ASO tools that also handle Play Store ? #buildinpublic

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Romain @romains.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

How do you know you had a productive month, you start reaching your cursor limit 😅 I've never reached it before, because I still do a lot of coding manually, but this time I had a lot of refactor to do 😅 #buildinpublic

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Romain @romains.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

App Showcase is still on Tiny Launch this week ! Dropped a few places back to 5th, but not to far away from a top 3 ! Would love some support if you didn't already 🙏 #buildinpublic

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Romain @romains.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

I'm reworking Scory's pricing model, moving from a "pay what you want to support us" model to 2 real offers: remove ads or unlock premium. Also adding a custom paywall for existing users so they can still access the old pricing and maybe convert better. Let's see how it goes ! #buildinpublic

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Romain @romains.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Tied for third place 👀 Would love some support before the launch ends to help me secure this place 🔥 #buildinpublic

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Romain @romains.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Someone left a feedback on Scory saying he had an issue, I emailed him to get some information and tell him I'll work on it and try to fix it asap. Got a nice german response 😅 Classic B2C 😂 #buildinpublic

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Romain @romains.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Top 3 for now ! Let's hope we can keep it, top 2 seems already far ahead though. www.tinylaun.ch/launch/1871 #buildinpublic

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Romain @romains.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

App Showcase is live on Tiny Launch ! Would love it if you could help me out with an upvote ! 🙏 www.tinylaun.ch/launch/1871 #buildinpublic

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Romain @romains.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Tomorrow I launch App Showcase on Tiny Launch ! Hope to get some feedbacks and some votes, let's see how this goes ! #buildinpublic

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Romain @romains.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Migrated my app from Tamagui to Nativewind and the output Cursor gave me improved drastically. It took some time and I probably would have finished what I was building if I just coded it myself instead of relying too much on AI, but I think it's worth it for the future ! #buildinpublic

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Romain @romains.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

I use Tailwind for all my projects now, but my first one, Scory, uses Tamagui. Tamagui itself is great, but when I ask Cursor to generate a screen or tweak some UI, the result is ugly and the code mostly spaghetti... Feels like LLMs only really know how to handle Tailwind 😅 #buildinpublic

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Romain @romains.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

April 4$ short from being my most profitable month, still a day left though. I hope next month will be more, I plan to change my pricing and I'm also redoing my onboarding which was really bad. Just need to finish that update first! 😅 #buildinpublic

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Romain @romains.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Haven't updated my mobile apps in a few weeks😲 New update is out for Hibi, quite small but needed to start with something. I'm preparing a big update on Scory, new onboarding, new pricing, new features. I get downloads, but conversion is still really bad 😔 #buildinpublic

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Romain @romains.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Scory was in @arielmichaeli.bsky.social's Product Page Breakdown today ! Couldn't watch it live because of job, meetings & stuff 😅 But thanks a lot for the feedback, I'll start working on it soon 🔥 #buildinpublic

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Level Up Your Conversion Rates - Live Product Page Teardown #ASO

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Romain @romains.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Was about to start cursing iOS builds again, I spent 30 minutes debugging a RevenueCat issue. Only to realize I just forgot to save my package.json 😅 #buildinpublic

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Romain @romains.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Updated the free App Page of appshowca.se ! You can now have your free linktree alternative with markdown description ! Create your app and secure your page name now ! #buildinpublic

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Romain @romains.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

I think I finally figured out this work-life balance thing, all thanks to vibe coding ✨ Working on two projects at once, preparing some solid prompts for Cursor & GPT-4.1, sending them and then doing chores while they cook. Efficiency unlocked 😄 #buildinpublic

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Romain @romains.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

It’s live! 🎉 You can now display your Play Store stats on your appshowca.se page! Also started reworking the landing page to better highlight the App Page feature, which is free for everyone to use! 🚀 #buildinpublic

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Romain @romains.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

The setup to fetch Play Store data for appshowca.se is nearly done! Just need to write up the docs so others can set it up too, and we’re good to go ✅ #buildinpublic

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Romain @romains.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Been using GPT-4.1 since it dropped and it’s definitely my favorite. Gemini wastes too many requests on Cursor just explaining what it will do without doing it. Claude hallucinates a lot and rewrites half my codebase if I don’t tell him not to 😅 4.1 feels much more reliable! #buildinpublic

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Romain @romains.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

I also need to finish the Google Play & Admob setup on appshowca.se! It’s been live for my own app for a while, but I still haven’t finished the Google OAuth validation process 🙈 #buildinpublic

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Romain @romains.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Since doing the App Gone Free weekend last month, downloads for my app Scory have doubled! 📈 Revenue went up too, but not by much, probably because of my monetization strategy. Right now I have a small ad banner + a paywall where users choose how much to pay ($3–$10) to remove ads. #buildinpublic

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Romain @romains.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Let’s start here posting again! 😄 Been busy with a paid project lately so didn’t ship much for my own apps. But with a 4-day weekend ahead, I’m aiming to drop a new update for Scory! The app gets ~2k downloads/month but only brings in $100... time to rethink monetization 💸 #buildinpublic

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Romain @romains.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I'm at @reactnativeconnect.bsky.social today in Paris ! Excited for the talks 🔥

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Romain @romains.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Haven’t been active lately, but still shipping! 🚀 Finally working on a game project I’ve had in mind for years, the whole vibe coding trend motivated me. Also, Scory landed me a project with a small board game editor. Never expected indie hacking to give me these opportunities🔥 #buildinpublic

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Romain @romains.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Arnaud's app BeginTrips is on Uneed today ! Show him your support to help him keep the first position 🔥

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Romain @romains.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Made good progress on appshowca.se 🚀 I finally managed to pull data from the Play Store & AdMob! You can check it out on appshowca.se/romain Still need to clean things up & send the Google OAuth to prod (they require a YouTube demo video... 😅). #buildinpublic

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