Matthew Pierce

@lookwhatmattmade.com

iOS dev 📱 | Senior engineer @ Intercom 👷‍♂️ | Building apps on the side while my children sleep 😴 📱🚫 https://trytimeout.com

I did a "fail fast" thing that makes me feel like I'm shipping fast.... while I joke by using the terminology baked all over the internet, I actually did do these things and it was pretty cool. A 🧵

Ugh, the only good thing about the update to AppStore Connect analytics is now it lives in the app tab. The overview having no way to change the time series makes no sense. Why does it default to last 90 days?? Saved views are gone. Active sessions are gone. Hour by hour view is gone. #iosdev

It's great that Xcode can now work with Claude, but is it somehow dumber? There's no plan mode, which is annoying and it seems to be going in circles with Opus - I think I might be switching back to command line Claude Code for iOS, this somehow seems poor.

I played with www.pencil.dev to see if it could be my AI designer and it's awesome. It uses your current Claude Code subscription and gets to work. I asked it to design a site I want to build to allow iOS devs to dump keywords in and it organises them into title, subtitle and keywords

Bluesky in the last couple months has really started to feel like the bird site 10 years ago. Awesome people building awesome things and I want to use all of them. Can’t remember the last time I’ve started this many git repos. More of this please, I’m here for it. #buildinpublic #indiedev

There’s so many tools out there for ASO keywords research, but I want a tool that will build me title, subtitle and keywords in the best possible way given a list of keywords with some data on them, such as where I rank, difficulty and volume. Does this exist?

I’ve started to build up a bit of a cash reserve from the few months of Time Out’s revenue and want to figure out the best way to deploy it. We’re talking a couple hundred €’s not thousands.