No 4. | February 2024 | Indie Developer Projects Insight
Released on Tuesday March 12th in 2024 by Simon Braun
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FOTM – Finding of the month
(Öffnet in neuem Fenster)This finding wasn’t to hard to find and please forgive me this shameless plug. I just released my latest app “Next Size – Kids Clothing“. If you want to forecast your children clothes sizes, this is for you. Buying clothes overseas? Don't worry! Switch between EU, UK, US and Japanese sizesa with a single tap. I’m very grateful for how the app turned out. Read more about my launch experience on → my blog (Öffnet in neuem Fenster).
Next Size (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) | iOS | Freemium → Download (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)
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VALUES AND UNIVERSAL SELLING POINTS
No advertising, no registration, no tracking of personal data and no investors – just an authentic person who loves making software.
No changes this month. Still my beloved and current tagline.
RELEASED PROJECTS
Auricula | App | 2.1.3 | Since 2014
Auricula is an interval ear trainer to practice your sense of hearing and to learn the skill to identify intervals.
Available for iOS, iPadOS and macOS, supports 9 languages: German, English, French, Brazilian Portuguese, Korean, Spanish, Italian as well as traditional and simplified Chinese
Website (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) | AppStore (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)
After several bug reports I decided to publish a quick bug fix release with some pending changes:
• New: explanation added to endless mode
• Changed: unlimited interval replays possible
• Changed: interval selection is not available for endless mode
• Fixed: clipped intervals on interval selection // Thanks Adrienne
Filmlog | App | 2.1.1 → 3.0.0 | Since 2013
Filmlog is a first-class private movie tracker and best in class iPhone and iPad appsince 2013.
Available for iOS and iPadOS, supports 15 languages: Arabic, German, English, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, traditional and simplified Chinese as well as Turkish
Website (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) | AppStore (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) | Testflight (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)
The Testflight version has been received quite well. Still a lot of edges, at least from my perspective. Getting the beta out just helps so much to verify your features and keeping the motivation up. Looking forward to chasing the next major release!
Next Size | App | 1.0.1 | Since 2013
Children clothes size forecast. It's that easy: Next Size estimates the body height of your kids and tells you which clothing sizes will fit when.
Available for iOS, supports 4 languages: German, English, French, Italian and Spanish
Website (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) | AppStore (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)
It was a pleasure to finish the app and finally release it! Unfortunately there were no AppStore features and press coverage was not happening. When I got a mail from John Voorhees that he will include Next Size in the next Club MacStories Newsletter. That was great. Thank you, John!
ALPHA/BETA PROJECTS
Next Size | App | 1.0.0 | Release on February 23, 2024 9:00 AM GMT
‘Next Size’ is an app for kids clothing to forecast your children clothing sizes.
Will be available for iOS, supports 4 languages: German, English, French, and Spanish.
Website (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) | Testflight (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)
The beta test for ‘Next Size’ is going well and the release is planned for February 23rd. There is already a build ready on AppStore Connect to be released, but I will use the coming weeks to prepare the launch.
PROTOTYPE PROJECTS
Puinte.org | Website | Since 2022
Puinte.org (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) is a website for a community financed effort to create better software for the general public: privacy-friendly, open-source, fully reusable and financed in solidarity.
Available for Web, supports 2 language: German, English.
Website (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) | Mastodon (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)
I always do have so many ideas. So it is very important to focus. Last month I did to release the ‘Filmlog’ beta and release ‘Next Size’. Therefore no improvements on ‘Puinte’.
Infolge.org | Website | Since 2015
Infolge.org (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) is a web service for following current affairs, comparing points of view and forming a differentiated opinion.
Available for Web, supports 1 language: German.
Website (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)
I just decided to send my application for the third (and last) time to the prototype fund (Öffnet in neuem Fenster). They fund public interest technology. It will take about 6 months until I will get some feedback, if I made it. So, I can focus on my other projects until then.
TOOLS AND SERVICES I USE
In this section you will get an overview of tools and services. I use them to develop and keep my projects up and running.
Hosting and E-Mail hosting Mittwald (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)
Domains Domain Offensive (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)*
Bank N26 Business (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)* (Germany, free tier)
Mobile Operator fraenk (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)* (Germany)
IDE Xcode (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)
Git Github (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) and Git Tower (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)*
Texteditor Sublime Text (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)
SFTP Client FileZilla (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)
Local Webserver MAMP (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)/WorldWideWeb (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)
IAP Framework RevenueCat (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) – used for Next Size InApp purchases
Analytics TelemetryDeck (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)*
ASO appfigures (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)
Business Analytics Trendly (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)
Calendar Fantastical (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)
Mail Apple Mail
Notes Standard Notes (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)
Todo Things (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)
Online Storage Tresorit (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)*
Documentation Notion (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)*
Bookmarks pinboard.in (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)
Calculator Soulver (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)
Diskmanagement DaisyDisk (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)*
Messenger Signal (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)
Passwordmanager Bitwarden (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)
Security Little Snitch (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)
Translation ICanLocalize (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)*, Deepl (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)(web), dict.cc (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) (iOS)
Design Affinity Designer (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) (still use version 1), Sketch (Öffnet in neuem Fenster), Figma (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)*
Image Compression ImageOptim (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)
Music Doppler (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)
Podcasts Airshow (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)
News NetNewsWire (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) (iOS)
Mastodon Ivory (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) (iOS)
Visual Collection eagle (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)*
Do you have a tool or service suggestion for me? Let me know: feedback@simonbraun.eu (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)
SOCIAL MEDIA & PR
I prefer my own website with a blog and posting to Mastodon … it is what it is.
Official Website Website (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) / Blog (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) / RSS (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)
Newsletter Indie Developer Projects Insight (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)
Mastodon Indie developer (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) (English), personal (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) (German), Filmlog (Öffnet in neuem Fenster), Puinte.org (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) (English and German)
Instagram Indie developer (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) (English), personal (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) (German)
Linkedin Link (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)
Producthunt Auricula (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) / Next Size (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)
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