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My new Mac app was just approved! π
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1. My new Mac app update was just approved. 2. Apple featured my Mac app on the App Store so I've had a massive boost in downloads, impressions, and ratings.
I'm now ranking for a ton of keywords because I localized with AscBuddy (Chrome extension). That was a big win for about 5 minutes of work. 3. OpenAI announced Sol is coming this Thursday. I'll share more details about it tomorrow. I have early access (today) and had it revamp my UI Testing and manual testing process with my 2nd Mac. -Paul P.S. I have a new marketing plan for my apps. I used Fable 5 for this plan, if you want to learn more, just reply (I may share more in a future email). |
Super Easy Apps Weekly - Paul Solt
Join 6,727+ iOS/macOS developers using Codex and Claude to build and ship apps. Expect practical tutorials, repeatable workflows, and hard-earned lessons from 7 shipped apps and time at Apple, Microsoft, and GoPro.
Hey Reader, I didn't sleep much last night. I was up pushing Sol to fix things that GPT-5.5 couldn't. I got early access to GPT-5.6 yesterday, and I had agents working on both macOS and iOS apps (and QA tooling). These models are super capable, but they have different strengths and weaknesses. I had them work on SwiftUI for an iPhone app today. Watch: GPT-5.6 vs Fable 5: 4 UIs, Judged Blind, 1 Winner Can you tell which model made each UI? Hint: one is not like the others. Now, we have access...
Hey Reader, This week, I woke up to 8 new features moving toward release in Super Easy Timer, including stopwatch, clock, pomodoro, and autocomplete. One Codex thread ran for 12 hours and 19 minutes. Part of that happened while I slept. Super Easy Timer can run pomodoros Apple recently featured my app on the homepage, so downloads are spiking (270+ downloads/day). If you show up and make something useful, Apple might feature your app. Back to my new Codex workflow: The setup is one Codex...
Hey Reader, I rebuilt the onboarding flow for Super Easy Timer, and my downloads started climbing. Three small changes around onboarding, localization, and reviews. Hereβs 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...