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

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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 (Si apre in una nuova finestra).

Next Size (Si apre in una nuova finestra) | iOS | Freemium → Download (Si apre in una nuova finestra)

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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 (Si apre in una nuova finestra) | AppStore (Si apre in una nuova finestra)

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 (Si apre in una nuova finestra) | AppStore (Si apre in una nuova finestra) | Testflight (Si apre in una nuova finestra)

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 (Si apre in una nuova finestra) | AppStore (Si apre in una nuova finestra)

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 (Si apre in una nuova finestra) | Testflight (Si apre in una nuova finestra)

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 (Si apre in una nuova finestra) 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 (Si apre in una nuova finestra) | Mastodon (Si apre in una nuova finestra)

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 (Si apre in una nuova finestra) 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 (Si apre in una nuova finestra)

I just decided to send my application for the third (and last) time to the prototype fund (Si apre in una nuova finestra). 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 (Si apre in una nuova finestra)
Domains Domain Offensive (Si apre in una nuova finestra)*
Bank N26 Business (Si apre in una nuova finestra)* (Germany, free tier)
Mobile Operator fraenk (Si apre in una nuova finestra)* (Germany)

IDE Xcode (Si apre in una nuova finestra)
Git Github (Si apre in una nuova finestra) and Git Tower (Si apre in una nuova finestra)*
Texteditor Sublime Text (Si apre in una nuova finestra)
SFTP Client FileZilla (Si apre in una nuova finestra)
Local Webserver MAMP (Si apre in una nuova finestra)/WorldWideWeb (Si apre in una nuova finestra)

IAP Framework RevenueCat (Si apre in una nuova finestra) – used for Next Size InApp purchases
Analytics TelemetryDeck (Si apre in una nuova finestra)*
ASO appfigures (Si apre in una nuova finestra)
Business Analytics Trendly (Si apre in una nuova finestra)

Calendar Fantastical (Si apre in una nuova finestra)
Mail Apple Mail
Notes Standard Notes (Si apre in una nuova finestra)
Todo Things (Si apre in una nuova finestra)
Online Storage Tresorit (Si apre in una nuova finestra)*
Documentation Notion (Si apre in una nuova finestra)*
Bookmarks pinboard.in (Si apre in una nuova finestra)
Calculator Soulver (Si apre in una nuova finestra)
Diskmanagement DaisyDisk (Si apre in una nuova finestra)*

Messenger Signal (Si apre in una nuova finestra)
Passwordmanager Bitwarden (Si apre in una nuova finestra)
Security Little Snitch (Si apre in una nuova finestra)
Translation ICanLocalize (Si apre in una nuova finestra)*, Deepl (Si apre in una nuova finestra)(web), dict.cc (Si apre in una nuova finestra) (iOS)
Design Affinity Designer (Si apre in una nuova finestra) (still use version 1), Sketch (Si apre in una nuova finestra), Figma (Si apre in una nuova finestra)*
Image Compression ImageOptim (Si apre in una nuova finestra)

Music Doppler (Si apre in una nuova finestra)
Podcasts Airshow (Si apre in una nuova finestra)
News NetNewsWire (Si apre in una nuova finestra) (iOS)
Mastodon Ivory (Si apre in una nuova finestra) (iOS)
Visual Collection eagle (Si apre in una nuova finestra)*

Do you have a tool or service suggestion for me? Let me know: feedback@simonbraun.eu (Si apre in una nuova finestra)

SOCIAL MEDIA & PR

I prefer my own website with a blog and posting to Mastodon … it is what it is.

Official Website Website (Si apre in una nuova finestra) / Blog (Si apre in una nuova finestra) / RSS (Si apre in una nuova finestra)
Newsletter Indie Developer Projects Insight (Si apre in una nuova finestra)
Mastodon Indie developer (Si apre in una nuova finestra) (English), personal (Si apre in una nuova finestra) (German), Filmlog (Si apre in una nuova finestra), Puinte.org (Si apre in una nuova finestra) (English and German)
Instagram Indie developer (Si apre in una nuova finestra) (English), personal (Si apre in una nuova finestra) (German)
Linkedin Link (Si apre in una nuova finestra)
Producthunt Auricula (Si apre in una nuova finestra) / Next Size (Si apre in una nuova finestra)

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