From Designer to Developer: Launching My First App Store App

From Designer to Developer: Launching My First App Store AppFrom Designer to Developer: Launching My First App Store App

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Ivo Ivanov

max

• Apr 15

Over the years I've designed many mobile apps for clients. This one is different. It's mine.

- Two weekends. - Figma for the design (it's hand-made) - Claude for the code, App Store research and strategy and everything related to the app submission. - 1 rejection from Apple, sorted out in a few minutes this morning, resubmitted for review and we're now live.

It's nothing world changing - just a kitchen timer. But it's on the App Store and I built it as a designer with zero coding skills. Gotta wrap up a case study for this soon.

P.S. Feels a bit odd to have "Developer" label above my name 🤣

iOS Claude Product Design

Ardian Shala

• 1d

Cool stuff Ivo, congrats on the lunch 😃 . You probably got this request before haha, do you mind sharing more behind the scenes of this project? For example, did you start first in Claude then doing visual refinements in Figma or the other way around? Thanks 🫡

Ivo Ivanov

max

• 1d

Thanks! I start every project in Claude for research, brainstorm, refine ideas, etc. After that I move to figma for the initial design and once I'm happy with it I'm bringing it Claude Code for the final implementation. That's the short version, but I'm gonna create a detailed case study for this one ;)

Ardian Shala

• 1d

Cool, thanks for sharing these 😃 .

kolawole Mordecai

• Apr 15

This is clean and very well executed. You made it look effortless, which usually means a lot of work happened behind the scenes. Can you walk us through how you approached it from start to finish?

Istiak Ahmed Khan

• Apr 16

great job👌

Ardian Shala

• Apr 16

Congrats Ivo!

Abi Bee

pro

• Apr 12

A commerce education platform. The biggest challenge was that it was the first of its kind, with no reference to guide me. So I learned commerce along the way, and built it.

Product Design UI Design UX Design ChatGPT Figma

kolawole Mordecai

• Apr 12

Wow, incredible

Yeasin Arafat

• Apr 13

AI Robot Assistant App UI/UX Design

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Rasel Alam Jubayed

pro

• Apr 13

Looks Good

Emmanuel Munteh

• Apr 12

Zircon "Njangi" Fintech Hero Section and Landing page Website.

Zircon is a Fintech App that blends both the traditional and modern ways of managing finances and contributing funds in order to achieve a well defined financial goal (Njangi).

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