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 (Opens in a new window).

Next Size (Opens in a new window) | iOS | Freemium → Download (Opens in a new window)

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DOWN – this number is decreased since last newsletter

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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 (Opens in a new window) | AppStore (Opens in a new window)

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 (Opens in a new window) | AppStore (Opens in a new window) | Testflight (Opens in a new window)

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 (Opens in a new window) | AppStore (Opens in a new window)

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 (Opens in a new window) | Testflight (Opens in a new window)

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 (Opens in a new window) 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 (Opens in a new window) | Mastodon (Opens in a new window)

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 (Opens in a new window) 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 (Opens in a new window)

I just decided to send my application for the third (and last) time to the prototype fund (Opens in a new window). 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 (Opens in a new window)
Domains Domain Offensive (Opens in a new window)*
Bank N26 Business (Opens in a new window)* (Germany, free tier)
Mobile Operator fraenk (Opens in a new window)* (Germany)

IDE Xcode (Opens in a new window)
Git Github (Opens in a new window) and Git Tower (Opens in a new window)*
Texteditor Sublime Text (Opens in a new window)
SFTP Client FileZilla (Opens in a new window)
Local Webserver MAMP (Opens in a new window)/WorldWideWeb (Opens in a new window)

IAP Framework RevenueCat (Opens in a new window) – used for Next Size InApp purchases
Analytics TelemetryDeck (Opens in a new window)*
ASO appfigures (Opens in a new window)
Business Analytics Trendly (Opens in a new window)

Calendar Fantastical (Opens in a new window)
Mail Apple Mail
Notes Standard Notes (Opens in a new window)
Todo Things (Opens in a new window)
Online Storage Tresorit (Opens in a new window)*
Documentation Notion (Opens in a new window)*
Bookmarks pinboard.in (Opens in a new window)
Calculator Soulver (Opens in a new window)
Diskmanagement DaisyDisk (Opens in a new window)*

Messenger Signal (Opens in a new window)
Passwordmanager Bitwarden (Opens in a new window)
Security Little Snitch (Opens in a new window)
Translation ICanLocalize (Opens in a new window)*, Deepl (Opens in a new window)(web), dict.cc (Opens in a new window) (iOS)
Design Affinity Designer (Opens in a new window) (still use version 1), Sketch (Opens in a new window), Figma (Opens in a new window)*
Image Compression ImageOptim (Opens in a new window)

Music Doppler (Opens in a new window)
Podcasts Airshow (Opens in a new window)
News NetNewsWire (Opens in a new window) (iOS)
Mastodon Ivory (Opens in a new window) (iOS)
Visual Collection eagle (Opens in a new window)*

Do you have a tool or service suggestion for me? Let me know: feedback@simonbraun.eu (Opens in a new window)

SOCIAL MEDIA & PR

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

Official Website Website (Opens in a new window) / Blog (Opens in a new window) / RSS (Opens in a new window)
Newsletter Indie Developer Projects Insight (Opens in a new window)
Mastodon Indie developer (Opens in a new window) (English), personal (Opens in a new window) (German), Filmlog (Opens in a new window), Puinte.org (Opens in a new window) (English and German)
Instagram Indie developer (Opens in a new window) (English), personal (Opens in a new window) (German)
Linkedin Link (Opens in a new window)
Producthunt Auricula (Opens in a new window) / Next Size (Opens in a new window)

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

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