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- Updated the App Store screenshots — English and Japanese. This has been on the list for a while. - Onboarding used to show up as cards. Made a dedicated onboarding view that walks through the features on first launch. - Some design work on Mac — trying to get things more consistent. - Bug fixes and localization updates. The more I work on the app, the smaller I feel. I mean — yes, I know I'm improving. But how much further until I'm at the level everyone else is at? Does it just happen if you keep going? It might not. No matter how hard you try, it might just not happen. Growth is progress, sure. But being satisfied with growth alone feels dangerously close to self-improvement addiction — and I keep catching myself leaning that way. If it's not going to work, I should quit. But if I start enjoying the feeling of getting a little better each time, I could end up stuck somewhere without realizing it. Anyway, as I wrote in another post — the goal is to make $99 from the app ...

mar 5, 2026 — apr 3, 2026 impressions: 1,089 (last month: 1,164) product page views: 34 (last month: 45) downloads: 8 (last month: 4) in-app purchases: 0 (last month: 0) revenue: US$0 (last month: US$0) active devices: 0 (last month: 1) deletions: 1 (last month: 2) my best guess Downloads doubled — from 4 to 8. But revenue is still $0, active devices is 0, and there was 1 deletion. People download it and then stop using it. Last month I had no words. This month I have numbers, but they're not saying much either. next month's delusions I'm working on ASO for Requote right now — screenshots, descriptions, keywords — and that'll probably take a while. Also bringing some Mac-only features over to iOS and iPadOS, and cleaning up the design overall. Honestly, I'm scared that none of this will change anything. But it's what I can do right now, so I'm doing it.

mar 5, 2026 — apr 3, 2026 views: 734 (last month: 589) watch hours: 47.5 (last month: 49.5) subscribers: 7 (last month: 5) average view duration: 3:53 (last month: 6:41) impressions: 9,987 (last month: 16,505) average click-through rate: 4.4% (last month: 1.7%) top 3 in views -  work with me | $4.24 revenue, 31 downloads, 75 videos | no talking -  read with me | keyboard typing & mouse clicking | no talking -  work with me | keyboard typing & mouse clicking | no talking top 3 in watch hours -  work with me | keyboard typing & mouse clicking | no talking -  work with me | $4.24 revenue, 31 downloads, 75 videos | no talking -  work with me | $0 revenue, 72 videos, 27 downloads | no talking top 3 in avg. view duration -  read with me | keyboard typing & mouse clicking | no talking -  work with me | claude told me to quit youtube | indie dev | subtitles | no music -  work with me | keyboard typing & mouse clicking | no talking...

I got curious and looked it up — my Apple developer account renewal is July 29th. Which means I first registered around the same time last year. I didn't actually launch Requote until early November, so even after deciding I was ready, it took another three months. But that aside — the thought I had when I saw that date: I want to at least earn back the developer account fee from my apps by then. It's $99 in the US. In Korea it's ₩129,000. It's late March now — exactly four months to go. After fees, I've made $4.24 so far. 4.24 out of 99. Just need to fill $99 in four months. Not looking promising, to put it gently. So I set a target for apps — might as well set one for YouTube too. Subscribers and watch time are the first things that come to mind. I started the channel on December 5th last year, so a one-year mark feels like a natural deadline. What should I aim for by December 5th, 2026? Subscribers are completely unpredictable, so I feel like I can't set any ...

Updated the App Store description and keywords — trying to find ones that actually work. But that alone isn't really enough to call an update, so I added German and French localization too, and updated the screenshots for both languages. Claude suggested that once impressions hit a certain level, the conversion rate data would start to mean something. But if impressions go up and conversion stays low, that's depressing. And if impressions don't go up at all, that's also depressing. At this point I'm just hoping to get struck by a money lightning. There was also a little incident. The review team flagged my app for "designated hardware pairing" and asked me to send a demo video. I don't have anything like that in my app. I replied saying so, and it got resolved pretty quickly — but still. Not the end of the world, but it did eat up some time and energy for nothing. Goes without saying it didn't help my trust in the review team, either.

- We've squashed some bugs and polished up the design so everything feels a bit smoother. - We've added Japanese language support. - You can now edit item counts and details right from your search results. This is the first time I've gone as far as adding screenshots and App Store descriptions in a language other than English. With Requote, I was too busy wanting everything at once to get around to it. It didn't help that I couldn't bring myself to trust AI translations. Japan has a strong culture around decluttering — danshari and all that — so maybe, just maybe, it could help with sales. Anyway, the tricky thing about an app with no users is that you can't really tell which direction to take it.

- 'All Highlights' was slow — noticeably so on Mac, especially when scrolling. Removed some unnecessary visual elements, and it's faster now. - Dashboard for Mac was slow too. Items are cached now, so it doesn't reload everything every time. - Settings on iOS got a design update. Brought it in line with sumof's look. I'm starting to think design isn't really a button size or font kind of problem. It might be more about how the app feels to use. And if that's the case, what feels natural probably depends on the era and what people are used to — what apps they use daily, how far they push their devices. That makes it hard to know where to set the standard. Maybe how an app looks is the design, in a way. How users interact with it, how they perceive it — that all comes down to the UI. Of course it should look good. But good-looking, comfortable, intuitive, and worth the money? I don't even know if I can make that.

sumof, the app I wrote about last time , is now live on the App Store. This time around, I knew a little more than I did with Requote — which made some parts easier and other parts harder, in ways I didn't expect. I made this for myself, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't want people to use it. If you try it out, I'd love to hear what you think. https://apps.apple.com/app/sumof/id6758943332

feb 3, 2026 — mar 4, 2026 views: 589 (last month: 233) watch hours: 49.5 (last month: 16.5) subscribers: 5 (last month: 2) average view duration: 6:41 (last month: 4:16) impressions: 16,505 (last month: 9,613) average click-through rate: 1.7% (last month: 1.7%) top 3 in views -  pulling myself together, again #shorts #workwithme -  a person who will be first to go when the AI uprising happens #shorts #workwithme -  writing — feb 9 top 3 in watch hours -  work with me | 5.5 hours of "is it fixed yet" | indie dev | subtitles | no music | no talking -  writing — feb 9 -  writing — feb 11 top 3 in avg. view duration -  work with me | The Art of Pretending to Be Productive | no talking -  work with me | 5.5 hours of "is it fixed yet" | indie dev | subtitles | no music | no talking -  work with me | it's called multitasking (it's called denial) | indie dev | subtitles | no talking top 3 in CTR -  writing — jan 7 -  pulling myself together...

feb 3, 2026 — mar 4, 2026 impressions: 1,164 (last month: 1,459) product page views: 45 (last month: 84) downloads: 4 (last month: 11) in-app purchases: 0 (last month: 0) revenue: US$0 (last month: US$0) active devices: 1 (last month: 1) deletions: 2 (last month: 2) my best guess No words. No words. Last month I called it. This month the numbers called it too. We're in agreement. next month's delusions Sumof is coming out next week — this is the "another app idea" I mentioned last time. I'm excited, but I also know myself at this point, so I'm trying not to get too ahead of it. Also want to revisit the ASO on Requote — screenshots, description, keywords. I'm not sure it'll make a difference, but I want to do it anyway. A developer's first app is like a first love — you just can't let go of the name.