No 3. | January 2024 | Indie Developer Projects Insight

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Indie Developer Projects Insight – Number 3, January 2024 by Simon Braun

Released on Sunday February 11th in 2024 by Simon Braun

Follow me on my journey as an indie developer, software nerd and product enthusiast. Regular content of the newsletter will be my finding of the month, learn more about my products and updates, as well as how everything is going for me. The basic version of the projects insight newsletter is free.

FOTM – Finding of the month

Presenting the 'Finding of the month' – eagle showing a blue round icon with a white abstract eagle on it. Showing the domain http://eagle.cool at the bottom.

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I did study design. They did call it communication design and so I do love collecting visual ideas, interesting images, funny pics and informative graphics. To the point that my photo library gets totally filled up next to my day to day photos and videos of my life. Last month I found a solution: the mac app is called ‘eagle’ and it’s perfect for me. My photo library is uncluttered now and ‘eagle’ is just perfect to collect, tag, search and find images.

eagle (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) | macOS | Lifetime Purchase → Download (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)

COLOUR CODES

Following markers are used in this insight:

UPCOMING – this is going to happen in the future!

NEW/UPDATED – newly added or updated since my last newsletter

UP – this number is increased since last newsletter

DOWN – this number is decreased since last newsletter

~~REMOVED~~ – this has been removed and will be deleted in the next newsletter

* – this asterisk is identifying an affiliate link

I. Basic Insights – free

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 current tagline.

RELEASED PROJECTS

Auricula | App | 2.1.2 | 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)

January was slow for Auricula, I focused on ‘Next Size’ and ‘Filmlog’.

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 app since 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 wait is over. Filmlog 3.0 is available on Testflight. It is so thankful to release the beta version, after working on this update for over a year. Finally people can get their hands on a version of Filmlog that I am proud. Looking forward to valuable feedback and lots of improvements, before I am planning the launch.

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 wanted to release the ‘Filmlog’ beta and finish ‘Next Size’ for its release. 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)

Infolge.org (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) did start as my diploma project and I still could not let it go. But if I can buy me some more time in the future, I would love to give it a spin as a working prototype with daily published new data.

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) – not in use yet (will be part of Filmlog 3.0.0)
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)

Music Doppler (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)
Podcasts Airshow (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) – Castro did find a new home (Öffnet in neuem Fenster), but I switched anyhow.
News NetNewsWire (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) (iOS)
Mastodon Ivory (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) (iOS)

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 blog and Mastodon … it is what it is.

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Thank you for reading my newsletter! Until next month and stay safe, Simon

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Datum 11.02.2024

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