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hermes in RN 0.81 only ships 3 Intl constructors. Journal was crashing once you logged a symptom because ListFormat is missing
pure JS fallbacks for all 9 locales, OTA ready after 1.0.1 clears
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bought a warmed up tiktok account for GLPME and made a months worth of carousels
will keep yall posted lol
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GLP&ME 1.0.1 is waiting for review
8 in-app languages, localized screenshots, fixed the Notifcations/neveer typos that shipped in 1.0
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put up $0 MRR for GLP&ME today. documenting zero is the whole point
Build In Public turned into people obsessing about distribution and MRR. Learning from feedback and iterating publicly until your product is something worth using earns trust a lot quicker than pretending to be an overnight success and posting Stripe screenshots.
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GLP&ME is live and sitting at $0 MRR. Documenting the whole thing from zero here
Set up so far: ASO rewrite (new name + subtitle in 1.0.1), PostHog funnels, OTA updates, Search Ads attribution, screenshots in 34 languages, small capped ads test ready
What would you do first?
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2nd app after Plant Parenthood so trying not to repeat my mistakes. Also yes the live screenshots say "Notifcations" and "neveer", fixed in 1.0.1 apps.apple.com/us/app/glpme/…
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plant parenthood 1.5.1 is live
new screenshot set cleared review. waiting for review finally flipped
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opus just tossing the whole port and starting clean is so real. did this on plant parenthood reminders last week and the rewrite shipped faster than the patch. weird how often that happens
Update: I was wrong about how Opus fixed ts-rust (typescript compiler port to Rust).
I thought it picked up from where Astra left off and unblocked whatever Astra was stuck on.
It actually decided all of Astra's code was slop, and made an entirely new crate with a from-scratch rewrite.
It made more progress in 10 hours than Astra did in 2 weeks 😭
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plant parenthood 1.5.1 is sitting in "waiting for review" with a whole new screenshot set
spent way too long arguing with myself over leaf borders
monday in kc just means refreshing app store connect
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app store link if you wanna poke around
apps.apple.com/app/id6757963…
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been hitting this hard on plant parenthood. opus just keeps grinding while everything else taps out mid-feature. that 50% fable limit explains so much
Why does Opus 5.5 feel practically unlimited when Fable 5.1 was so heavily limited?
It's a combination of two things: Opus's efficiency, and the 50% limit on Fable.
Claude Code subs are very generous with their usage, but only half is allowed to be used by Fable.
Separately, Opus is way more gentle with costs. Opus 5.5 on High is over 2x cheaper than Fable 5.1 High.
The result is that, roughly, going from Fable 5.1 high to Opus 5.5 high is a 4.3x increase in limits.
Fable 5.1 xhigh to Opus 5.5 high (move I made) is a 6.6x increase 🤯
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redid the app store screenshots for Plant Parenthood this weekend 🌱
went hand-drawn / editorial instead of the usual gradient + floating phone. wanted it to feel like a plant journal, not a saas landing page
better or worse than the typical style? be honest
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also cut a little promo for it. sad plant, reminder pops up, gets watered, comes back
all code, no after effects
it's on the app store 👉 apps.apple.com/app/id6757963…
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packaged both into a template so you can do this for your own app: screenshot decks + code-rendered promo vids
screenshots built on Parth Jadhav's open source app-store-screenshots skill, motion on @twoclipping's template 🙏
x.ai/bot/D5sZiu0LI4a0Iy8b6ij…
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