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 (Opens in a new window) | macOS | Lifetime Purchase → Download (Opens in a new window)

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

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

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 (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 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 (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)

Infolge.org (Opens in a new window) 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 (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) – not in use yet (will be part of Filmlog 3.0.0)
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) – Castro did find a new home (Opens in a new window), but I switched anyhow.
News NetNewsWire (Opens in a new window) (iOS)
Mastodon Ivory (Opens in a new window) (iOS)

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 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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Date February 11, 2024

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