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3 Things I Learned from the GPT-5.5 Launch Party
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I flew out to San Francisco to visit OpenAI. It was a whirlwind and super fun to meet the team behind the Codex app. And I was able to chat with developers to learn about their own workflows. Read: 3 Things I Learned from the GPT-5.5 Launch Party I met Ray Fernando, Sam Altman, and many other great people at OpenAI and beyond. I was inspired by some of the discussions to start work on my Codex Librarian research tools and skills. This builds upon my DocSetQuery GitHub project. I'll share more details in a future email. Please take a peek at my demo here. 5 Links and Resources
Quick QuestionDo you want me to teardown your iOS or macOS app or App Store screenshots? Send me your App Store link. Talk soon, Paul Solt P.S. If you review my App Store app, Super Easy Timer, I'll write a review your app. Every review helps, thanks! I published my latest update with new App Store screenshots and added Full Screen quality of life improvements. I use this timer every day for writing or coding blocks. It's super useful to be able to type "5 minutes" + Enter or 3pm so I can pick up my daughter on-time from daycare. |
Super Easy Apps Weekly - Paul Solt
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Hey Reader, I rebuilt the onboarding flow for Super Easy Timer, and my downloads started climbing. Three small changes around onboarding, localization, and reviews. Here’s exactly what I did so you can copy it. Downloads trending up with my big 2.0 Update Onboarding My old onboarding showed five videos and didn't give users a chance to try the app. The new flow does one job: show someone how the timer works. One short video, then an interactive timer that they tap through themselves. No...
Hey Reader, Apple just approved Super Easy Timer 2.0 n the Mac App Store! 🎉 If you haven’t been following along, this app has made $7k over it’s lifetime (8 years, but was dying), so I spent the last two months fixing up deprecated code and revamping the UI. There is a lot of work that goes into everything around the launch. A new marketing website, the localizations, the screenshots, the preview video, and onboarding flow. Here’s everything that went into my latest launch (and how I avoided...
Hey Reader,My new TestFlight beta was just approved.Check it out on Mac. -Paul P.S. The new design is part of my app marketing plan to push this app higher in the charts. It's going to be a fun experiment.