Sometimes I forget I’m writing mobile apps. I open the simulator. Tap around. And it feels like I...

Sometimes I forget I’m writing mobile apps. I open the simulator. Tap around. And it feels like I...Sometimes I forget I’m writing mobile apps. I open the simulator. Tap around. And it feels like I...

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Muhammad Azhar Iqbal

pro

• Jan 23

Sometimes I forget I’m writing mobile apps. I open the simulator. Tap around. And it feels like I’m just playing with toys… Until I remember… People actually use this for real money, real data, real life. PS: Have you ever caught yourself playing with your app like it’s a game?

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Ivo Ivanov

max

• Mar 30

I built my first native iOS app this weekend. The client? My wife. The budget? $0 😅 She's a home pastry chef and needed a kitchen timer. Simple brief. Zero negotiation room. Spent most of the weekend designing it by hand in Figma - Dieter Rams vibes, minimalist with a touch of skeuomorphic texture that just feels right on a physical device. Then handed it off to Claude Code to implement in Xcode. Accuracy? Kind of wild. 99% pixel-perfect from my Figma file. A lot of prompting, but it delivered. App's live on TestFlight. Client tested it. Client approved it. Client is still not paying. Next up: multi-step timers - which was actually the feature she asked for in the first place.