Marketing 101 for software companies

1. Lure people in with free food and energy drinks
2. Tell them they could win a prize if they use your API
3. Congratulations, you have people trying your API

if they coded it in c++ instead of javascript it would have been faster

coding another crud application with a straight face

having a code formatter automatically run on save has altered my brain

it now sees:

unformatted code === syntax error some where

TikTok blocks links to the App Store on regular accounts

You can get around it by changing https:// to itms-apps://

Haven’t found any work around for the Play store though

Tried market:// and url shorteners but no luck

Anyone know the trick?

Every time I use AI autocomplete in my code I have to decide whether I’m in the mood to type it out or fix the extra curly braces after the fact

While you’re transitioning to a VPS don’t forget to roll your own auth too

I don’t keep a bug backlog, I either fix it immediately or wait for another person to complain about it

I didn't have time to write concise code, so I wrote a massive uncommented function instead

I’m starting to realize when hiring if you want someone really good, creating a job board posting isn’t going to cut it

network + outreach is required

Voidpet is half game, half mental health app

We picked the health & fitness category thinking it would be less competitive/easier to rank

This turned out to be true on Android and false on iOS

For several months we've gotten 10x more downloads from random people finding the…

My new rubber duck debugging buddies are on sale now!

shop.voidpet.com

Voidpet won the best personal growth app of 2023 🤯

darn, looks like I’m destined for jail