Engineer building small iOS apps & games. → Respira: 2k users, pollen allergy tracker → storewake.com: ASO growth for your iOS apps DM for collabs
Madrid, Comunidad de Madrid
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I'm one engineer from Spain.
Today my pollen app goes live in the US, UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy and Portugal.
6 languages, 2 data sources, 11 US species.
Built nights and weekends.
Live now for 330M more people.
apps.apple.com/app/675920656…
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posted this at 3,200 followers.
12 hours later: 4,181. 🤯
almost 1,000 new people in one night, most of them from Spain after @alvarombt quoted it.
gracias Álvaro, y bienvenidos a todos los que habéis llegado 👋
I'm Pablo. I'm 30. From Madrid.
Senior backend engineer by day, indie dev at night.
Respira, an iOS pollen tracker.
Storewake, ASO and Apple Ads for indie devs, with its own MCP.
Listry, an iOS app for collaborative wishlists.
3.2K followers in 55 days, all of it built in public.
Looking to connect with more builders!
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Pablo retweeted
I'm Pablo. I'm 30. From Madrid.
Senior backend engineer by day, indie dev at night.
Respira, an iOS pollen tracker.
Storewake, ASO and Apple Ads for indie devs, with its own MCP.
Listry, an iOS app for collaborative wishlists.
3.2K followers in 55 days, all of it built in public.
Looking to connect with more builders!
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As a spanish builder, I believe that create a PAID app just to calculate a few hours and minutes is shameless
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Just created this video for my app about the last update using this prompt with Opus 5.5
Really impressive, it's a first shot, if you know someone with pollen allergy, give it a try 👇
apps.apple.com/app/apple-sto…
WTF?
Made with claude OPUS 5.5
Prompt
"make a dynamic 15-second motion graphics video that shows what an incredible motion designer you are, like it's your showreel for a résumé. go all out."
That's it..
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Bookmark this if you have an iOS app live.
The App Store Connect fields most indie devs never touch:
Subtitle: it is indexed. 30 extra characters of ranking, so stop using it as a slogan.
In-app events: they show up in search results with their own card. Free extra surface.
Custom product pages: up to 35 of them. Point each Apple Ads ad group at a page that matches the ad.
Promotional text: 170 characters you can change any time with no review. It is not indexed, so use it for news and offers.
Keyword localization: extra locales for the same market give you extra keyword fields to rank on.
Which of these have you been ignoring?
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Already tested @superx_so, trial cancelled, no affiliate. Honest verdict:
What worked for me:
• "Trending in your niche" gave me 2 angles I wouldn't have found.
• Reply from a pasted link, no tab switching.
What didn't:
• Feeds only shows people I already follow. Zero discovery.
• Signals matched "ASO" to fantasy baseball writers and the White House press pool, huge mistake.
• AI drafts had my account numbers wrong and invented free tier limits.
The growth still came from the same place: 40+ manual replies a day. No tool does that for you.
Worth $49/mo? Not for me. Maybe if Signals finds real leads for your SaaS. It didn't for mine.
Been offline last week from X for 3 days and my impressions dropped 62%. Ouch.
So I've just started an experiment: 3-day trial of @superx_so, squeezing every feature and coming back to you with honest feedback, let's see if you guys can convert this trial to a real sub @robj3d3 @tibo_maker
Baseline (last 7 days): 100K impressions, 1.9% engagement, 409 profile visits.
Will post the numbers on day 3. No affiliate, just curious if these tools actually move anything.
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Pablo retweeted
I'm one engineer from Spain.
Today my pollen app goes live in the US, UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy and Portugal.
6 languages, 2 data sources, 11 US species.
Built nights and weekends.
Live now for 330M more people.
apps.apple.com/app/675920656…
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More free tiers I keep coming back to:
• Neon — 0.5GB/project, 100 projects
• Turso — 100 DBs, 5GB
• Upstash Redis — 500K commands/mo
• Cloudflare R2 — 10GB, no egress fees
• Loops — 4K emails/mo
• Vercel — 100GB transfer/mo
• Crisp (live chat) — 2 seats
Which one am I missing?
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Just check this exponential curve
Idk if I'm missing something or if it's just the 100k audience, but holy shit.. his app is only 1 month old
Anyway I will keep building and try to iterate over GTM strategies for my apps
And Pix, if you read this, big congrats🥂 you're doing a wonderful job
first $1k revenue achieved
time to scale this baby up
p.s. finally cracked the upper funnel, half of these trials were started in the last 12h
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Most indie apps do not have a marketing problem.
They have a 100 character keyword field that has not changed since launch.
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I'm starting to think they take Codex down on purpose just to make @thsottiaux happy lol
o yes… we’re back in action and we’ll reset usage limits for all paid users across codex and ChatGPT work
sorry about the brief disruption!
(and yes we have a special spare codex when things are down to help us out)
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The part of ASO nobody talks about: localization.
I'm adapting Respira's App Store listings to every storefront I target. Spain, US, UK, France, Germany, Portugal, Italy.
Each one needs a full screenshot set with its own localized captions. Each one needs its own keywords, subtitle and description.
Then the maintenance. Watching which keywords work in each market and swapping out the ones that don't.
Most guides do English and little else. Usually there's a company behind the apps that do more.
Indie devs: how do you handle this?
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Everyone is posting about the content rewards program, so here's what I came back to after 3 days disconnected.
Small builders, take notes on these graphs.
Hitting 500k soon 🚀
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App Store reviews are the cheapest ranking lever most indie devs never touch.
Where the prompt converts:
• right after the user completes something
• 3rd session, never the 1st
• never mid-onboarding, Apple rejects it
Ratings → conversion → ranking.
When do you trigger yours?
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Back to back!!!
Lfg guys!!
(I was busy to post w my 9-5🥲)
Looking for more🚀🚀
Third one landed tonight. The first annual trial Respira has ever had.
Today: 1 lifetime, 1 monthly trial, 1 annual trial.
Before the paywall change: 166 days of RevenueCat data and never more than 2 in a single day.
One day isn't a trend. Still, what a day.
SO @DonToliver
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Pablo retweeted
Vitals 1.0.9 is out
A license that never gets lost. Uptime, memory pressure and disk % at a glance. Your units, your way. And a UI that finally moves.
92 of the $5 launch licenses left. Then it's $29.
> vitalsmac.com
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hot take:
your App Store screenshots matter more than your first 3 months of code.
nobody reads your feature list. they look at 2 screenshots and decide.
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