More sticker experimentation. This time on the roller 😍 #BuildInPublic #IndieApp #software #design #iOS
Matt
@mattmoss.me
🛖 professional hermit 🚀 product dude 🎮 beat godrick in elden ring once 📻 Making getCOPY.app (skinnable, private walkie-talkie) - find it on the App Store! (Android coming soon) https://apps.apple.com/us/app/copy-private-walkie-talkie/id6758922962
OK WAT this is sofa king cool. In our skin complier, we'll have an auto-mapping capability so any skin can tell the stickers what to do based on where they stick. Let’s us do freeform sticker placement. Stickers are coming soon as part of our (optional) COPY Club sub #BuildInPublic #IndieApp #iOS
COPY got it's first support ticket tonight! Feels like a badge of honor 🤩 #BuildInPublic #iOS #IndieApp
This was a fun find on Youtube last night. Command Line media player with it's own version of 'winamp-like skins'. www.cliamp.stream #indiesoftware #opensource
CLIAMP — Terminal Music Player
A retro terminal music player inspired by Winamp 2.x. Play YouTube, Spotify, Qobuz, Plex, Jellyfin, Emby, SoundCloud, NetEase, and 30,000+ radio stations from your terminal with a spectrum visualizer ...
cliamp.stream
one thing i’m learning about indie dev: it takes conviction to do the boring stuff that pays dividends. i keep wanting to work on the next shiny thing, but this early, the small, unheroic work usually produces more consistent returns. #BuildInPublic #IndieApp #software #design #iOS
getting closer to testing skin creation with the community. this is gonna be a slow roll for us, but if you have any interest in helping us bring COPY to the good 'ol 'winamp' skinning days, let us know! #BuildInPublic #IndieApp #software #design #iOS
Alan@atippins.bsky.social · 4w agoEvery Copy walkie talkie reacts when you record or play a message. Ghostline turns that shared behavior into a sci-fi receiver-style waterfall. It builds as you talk, then fills from left to right during playback. Ghostline is coming in the next release of Copy. #buildinpublic #skeumorphism
Found a really great fork of Excalidraw called Excalidash. It adds board persistence that isn't tied to just local browser storage, better multi-user management and easier multi-board organization. Plus, you can self-host it! github.com/ZimengXiong/...
GitHub - ZimengXiong/ExcaliDash: A self-hosted dashboard and organizer for Excalidraw with multi-user collaboration and scoped sharing.
A self-hosted dashboard and organizer for Excalidraw with multi-user collaboration and scoped sharing. - ZimengXiong/ExcaliDash
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COPY for Android. Finally. In closed testing. Seriously this time :) #BuildInPublic #IndieApp #software #design #android
the vision for COPY was to always open up the skinning engine “winamp style”, so that anyone could create their own walkie talkie. #BuildInPublic #IndieApp #software #design #iOS
Alan’s been cooking 👨🏻🍳 on Ghostline the past few weeks, and it comes with some fun backstory and lore. Keep an eye out for more about Ghostline and release 1.0.4 over the coming week. #BuildInPublic #IndieApp #software #design #iOS
gearing up for a big week. we’re in the home stretch of finalizing release 1.0.4, featuring: • Ghostline, a new tactical themed skin from @atippins.bsky.social. #BuildInPublic #IndieApp #software #design #iOS
still trying to learn a good balance to managing all the things as an indie dev. @atippins.bsky.social and i have ramped up some big projects over the last few weeks, and as a result our social posting seems to be the first thing that falls off. #BuildInPublic #IndieApp #software #design #iOS
COPY passed 5,000 messages sent since launch! Been pleased with the steady growth. Analytics are pointing towards where we have room for optimization: the invite sent → accepted → first message sent/responded funnel. #BuildInPublic #IndieApp #software #design #iOS
Been following @cameron.stream forever and finally had some time this weekend to sit down with @letta.com to really give it a go. Setting up Steve, my first coding agent specifically for COPY. Going to use it this week to see how it differs, how i like working with it, etc... Open to tips/ideas!
one thing I love about COPY’s sound design: they're a key part of the ux. Static means the channel is empty. A press sound says the button worked. The send chime only plays after your message actually sends. #BuildInPublic #IndieApp #software #design #iOS
early in COPY development, we built an OpenClaw plugin that let an agent join a channel and answer in voice. You could carry your robot around like a strange little walkie-talkie friend. It was kinda magical. #BuildInPublic #IndieApp #software #design #iOS
Channel renaming ended up being one of those deceptively complex COPY features. It sounds simple: type a name, hit Save, done. Underneath, it turned into a tiny distributed systems project. #BuildInPublic #IndieApp #software #design #iOS
Pushed out COPY 1.0.3 to TestFlight tonight! 1.0.2 was mostly Android readiness (just waiting on the Play Store) 1.0.3 is polish: new Learn COPY onboarding segments, a few skin management refinements, and much faster channel renames. Another post on that one, soon :) #BuildInPublic #IndieApp #iOS
Working on an import pipeline for Copy, our walkie-talkie app. It makes it easier for me and @mattmoss.me (and soon other creators) to submit skins. First test: an HTML version I built in Claude Design. As I learn what makes importing hard, I revise the pipeline. Figma is next. #buildinpublic
This week, @atippins.bsky.social and I have been rethinking how COPY teaches you to use it. The constraint: no new ui or unfamiliar patterns. The walkie itself should do the teaching. Simplicity is tough 😉 Wdyt? Too cheesy 😅(sound on!) #BuildInPublic #IndieApp #software #design #iOS
We tried a little App Store advertising to learn what drives downloads and where our listing needs work. About half the people who tapped through installed COPY. I feel like that’s pretty good? #BuildInPublic #IndieApp #software #design #iOS
hey! we're still looking for a few brave souls to help us test COPY on android! Instructions below :) 🙏🏻
Matt@mattmoss.me · 2mo agoJoin us and become a COPY Test Pilot™️ for #android 1. Join this Google Group. Anyone you invite needs to join too: groups.google.com/g/copy-andro... 2. After you've joined the group, opt into the Play test: play.google.com/apps/testing... #BuildInPublic #IndieApp #software #design
We’ve spent a lot of time refining COPY’s analytics since launch. The goal isn’t to make the app nag you more. It’s to learn where people get stuck, then make the thing they already wanted to do easier. #BuildInPublic #IndieApp #software #design #iOS
@atippins.bsky.social and I got our first write-up for COPY! Thanks for the kind words, @rolfebox.bsky.social - means a ton that you called out the little details we sweated. Audio design was probably the part we enjoyed the most :) www.tapsmart.com/apps/copy-wa... #BuildInPublic #iOS #design
COPY turns your iPhone into a vintage walkie-talkie
COPY is a charming take on voice notes that wants you to remember the joys of the walkie-talkie.
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pretty excited about how the COPY roadmap is shaping up. New releases are fun on their own, but I’m also curious to see whether each one gives us a little bump in usage or engagement. See what’s coming next: getcopy.app/roadmap #BuildInPublic #IndieApp #software #design #iOS
We spent a lot of time making COPY private by design. Voice messages are encrypted on your device before they ever touch our servers. We can deliver them, but we can’t listen to them. #BuildInPublic #IndieApp #software #design #iOS
Pretty fun week for COPY 📻 🎉 One month on the App Store 🕹️ First update shipped: 1.0.2, featuring RX-80, a fancy new retro skin 🤖 Closed Android beta is out 💅🏻 First blogger/writer inquiry came in Keep having to remind ourselves that this is a marathon, not a sprint :) #BuildInPublic #android