Declan
@declandadev
Integration dev by day | Building Apps | Currently: Duolingo for Sign Language
We’re living in a time where it’s easier than ever to hide behind AI-generated photos or anonymous profiles. But I think authenticity still matters, and putting a face to the name builds trust. So in the name of practicing what I preach here are some photos of my life :)
Me when my X is popping off: Ain’t no one grinding like me Me when my X is dead as: All these people posting when they should be building smh
Another week of steady growth. Hoping retention improves once this update is approved. The additional content should keep users more engaged for longer.
Another End of Week stats update: Growth staying constant. Focussing on retention now. Interestingly conversion popped up this week. I don’t think we’re struggling with converting pages views to users hence why I want to focus on keeping the users once they download the app.…
*note to self* Don’t submit app to appstore right before the weekend Still waiting
V 1.0.11 in for review. Hopefully review is completed over the weekend. - Added over 100 new signs in this update Hoping this will help with user retention.
Friend studying Design said I needed to get on pinterest for inspo. Valid?
I’m contemplating giving shipaton a go. Have been chatting to friends to see if I can get a goated team together. It would mean I would have to slow my progress on auslan Islands. Would be pretty fun and good content too though. Going to give it some thought…
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I love the look of grainy gradients. Would love to incorporate them into an app in the future. Here was a little concept page I whipped up with react native. What kind of app would go with this vibe?
I’ve really been enjoying drawing on things if you couldn’t tell lmao do we like the vibe?
I’m training my fiancee to be my ghostwriter. Havent told her yet though
Found this concept art ai generated for my app a couple months back. I actually love the clouds in this image. Might try and refactor the app to incorporate this style a bit more. Thoughts?
The number of times I’ve heard people say,”I’ve always wanted to learn some sign lanaguage”. When they find out I know some. Major validation for why I’m building this app.
Curious. When building iOS apps do people purchase multiple developer accounts under their brand name for each app or is there a way to use your personal developer account?
Made some awesome tweaks to the lessons flow this week - Added an extra quiz style to mix it up so that it’s not always the 4 videos - Added pre-polling for videos so that they almost instantly laid when the user changes page - Added a small change for how lessons were batching…
One week of posting on Medium check in. Nothing Crazy to report. I think the results will come with consistency. I have 4 posts ready in drafts. Will easily be able to crank a couple more out this weekend so sticking to the one post per day for now.
I’m now posting every day on Medium for a week. I think I have enough content for a month to get away with posting every day for this first week and then 3 times the following weeks. I might even up this in the following weeks but we’ll see how we’re tracking. 3 days. 3 Posts.…
For anyone wondering what you get out of a paid expo subscription. Here are my numbers. $2 per build with $30 of credit. 15 builds per month. Probably a bit overkill at the moment.
Building aint cheap These subscriptions are starting to stack up :/