Shareshot’s Launch Week
On August 12th we launched our app Shareshot which makes it easy to add frames and backgrounds to screenshots or other images. Finally. Our fourth released indie app actually does some numbers.
Author: Marc
Confused by appintentsmetadataprocessor errors in Xcode 16?
If you're building App Intents and start seeing weird ` appintentsmetadataprocessor` build errors with Xcode 16 this might help you.
My Mac History
Everybody posting their 40th Anniversary of the Mac stories obviously prompted me to write this, which is a roundabout Mac journey. In hindsight the Mac clearly had its effect on me even when I wasn’t using it… I grew up in Kingston, South West London. Very popular at the time for its affordable/renovatable semi-detached Victorian houses which are now largely unaffordable to normal people. I didn’t know it at the time but I saw what […]
iPad Pros Podcast Ep.177 — Tim and I talk subtitling videos on iPad
Tim Chaten was kind enough to invite me to chat about my app Captionista, iPad and Mac on episode #177 of iPad Pros podcast where we talk about the app’s origins and the challenges with social video captions and subtitles in general
We tried using video ads for Indie App user acquisition. Are TikTok ads a scam?
Back in late August 2022 we launched version 1.0 of our social video subtitling app Captionista into a crowded segment dominated by huge players including CapCut which is owned by the company behind TikTok. This makes App Store Search ads way too expensive for the keywords we need. As we were just this week posting videos as part of the marketing, we tried paid video ads to see if that might move the needle. We’ve experimented […]