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

(Abre numa nova janela)

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 (Abre numa nova janela).

Next Size (Abre numa nova janela) | iOS | Freemium → Download (Abre numa nova janela)

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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 (Abre numa nova janela) | AppStore (Abre numa nova janela)

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 (Abre numa nova janela) | AppStore (Abre numa nova janela) | Testflight (Abre numa nova janela)

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 (Abre numa nova janela) | AppStore (Abre numa nova janela)

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 (Abre numa nova janela) | Testflight (Abre numa nova janela)

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 (Abre numa nova janela) 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 (Abre numa nova janela) | Mastodon (Abre numa nova janela)

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 (Abre numa nova janela) 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 (Abre numa nova janela)

I just decided to send my application for the third (and last) time to the prototype fund (Abre numa nova janela). 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 (Abre numa nova janela)
Domains Domain Offensive (Abre numa nova janela)*
Bank N26 Business (Abre numa nova janela)* (Germany, free tier)
Mobile Operator fraenk (Abre numa nova janela)* (Germany)

IDE Xcode (Abre numa nova janela)
Git Github (Abre numa nova janela) and Git Tower (Abre numa nova janela)*
Texteditor Sublime Text (Abre numa nova janela)
SFTP Client FileZilla (Abre numa nova janela)
Local Webserver MAMP (Abre numa nova janela)/WorldWideWeb (Abre numa nova janela)

IAP Framework RevenueCat (Abre numa nova janela) – used for Next Size InApp purchases
Analytics TelemetryDeck (Abre numa nova janela)*
ASO appfigures (Abre numa nova janela)
Business Analytics Trendly (Abre numa nova janela)

Calendar Fantastical (Abre numa nova janela)
Mail Apple Mail
Notes Standard Notes (Abre numa nova janela)
Todo Things (Abre numa nova janela)
Online Storage Tresorit (Abre numa nova janela)*
Documentation Notion (Abre numa nova janela)*
Bookmarks pinboard.in (Abre numa nova janela)
Calculator Soulver (Abre numa nova janela)
Diskmanagement DaisyDisk (Abre numa nova janela)*

Messenger Signal (Abre numa nova janela)
Passwordmanager Bitwarden (Abre numa nova janela)
Security Little Snitch (Abre numa nova janela)
Translation ICanLocalize (Abre numa nova janela)*, Deepl (Abre numa nova janela)(web), dict.cc (Abre numa nova janela) (iOS)
Design Affinity Designer (Abre numa nova janela) (still use version 1), Sketch (Abre numa nova janela), Figma (Abre numa nova janela)*
Image Compression ImageOptim (Abre numa nova janela)

Music Doppler (Abre numa nova janela)
Podcasts Airshow (Abre numa nova janela)
News NetNewsWire (Abre numa nova janela) (iOS)
Mastodon Ivory (Abre numa nova janela) (iOS)
Visual Collection eagle (Abre numa nova janela)*

Do you have a tool or service suggestion for me? Let me know: feedback@simonbraun.eu (Abre numa nova janela)

SOCIAL MEDIA & PR

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

Official Website Website (Abre numa nova janela) / Blog (Abre numa nova janela) / RSS (Abre numa nova janela)
Newsletter Indie Developer Projects Insight (Abre numa nova janela)
Mastodon Indie developer (Abre numa nova janela) (English), personal (Abre numa nova janela) (German), Filmlog (Abre numa nova janela), Puinte.org (Abre numa nova janela) (English and German)
Instagram Indie developer (Abre numa nova janela) (English), personal (Abre numa nova janela) (German)
Linkedin Link (Abre numa nova janela)
Producthunt Auricula (Abre numa nova janela) / Next Size (Abre numa nova janela)

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