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Chris Raroque
Добавлен 8 сен 2011
Solo app developer 📱👨💻
Taking you behind the scenes of building a productivity apps (Ellie 🐹 and Luna 🐶)
Taking you behind the scenes of building a productivity apps (Ellie 🐹 and Luna 🐶)
My Budgeting App Got Its First Paying User 🥳 1 Month Update (Improving App Retention / New Features)
Hi my name is Chris and I build productivity apps (Mogul, Ellie and Luna) 👋
In this video I talk about the first month since going live on the app store. Making our first dollar and the features I've launched over the last few weeks (analytics/charts and recurring transactions for the budgeting app) :)
Download Luna: dub.sh/luna-budgeting
Android Waitlist: lunabudgeting.com/android-waitlist
Luna playlist: ruclips.net/video/76VPbr1RifM/видео.html
Check out my Twitter, Instagram and Tiktok where I post way more frequently and build in public 👇
Twitter/X: raroque
Instagram: chris.raroque
TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@chris.raroque
My apps / Startup ✌️
Ellie (daily planning app): e...
In this video I talk about the first month since going live on the app store. Making our first dollar and the features I've launched over the last few weeks (analytics/charts and recurring transactions for the budgeting app) :)
Download Luna: dub.sh/luna-budgeting
Android Waitlist: lunabudgeting.com/android-waitlist
Luna playlist: ruclips.net/video/76VPbr1RifM/видео.html
Check out my Twitter, Instagram and Tiktok where I post way more frequently and build in public 👇
Twitter/X: raroque
Instagram: chris.raroque
TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@chris.raroque
My apps / Startup ✌️
Ellie (daily planning app): e...
Просмотров: 5 021
Видео
My app analytics process (real numbers 👀+ quick tutorial)
Просмотров 5 тыс.14 дней назад
Hi my name is Chris and I build productivity apps (Mogul, Ellie and Luna) 👋 In this video, I talk about how I approach app analytics for my early stage apps. We look at some real data for my app Ellie, how I interpret and use data to make product decisions and how to implement analytics in your app :) Posthog (the tool i use for analytics): dub.sh/chris-posthog (please tell them I sent you 🙏) C...
Finally launching my new budgeting app! (pricing, getting rejected 3 times, growth plans)
Просмотров 19 тыс.28 дней назад
Hi my name is Chris and I build productivity apps (Mogul, Ellie and Luna) 👋 In this video I talk about the process of launching my app on the app store (pricing, retention, rejections, etc...) and my future plans for iteration and growth :) Download Luna: apps.apple.com/us/app/luna-budgeting-app/id6504741176 Check out my Twitter, Instagram and Tiktok where I post way more frequently and build i...
500 users tested my new app: Lessons learned & changes I'm making
Просмотров 14 тыс.Месяц назад
Hi my name is Chris and I build productivity apps (Mogul, Ellie and Luna) 👋 In this video I go through the lessons learned and changes I'm making based on feedback and usage of the first 500 beta users for my new budgeting app. I talk about analytics and trying to improve retention and a few other tips to improve retention in an iOS app :) Download Luna: lunabudgeting.com Check out my Twitter, ...
Launching the beta of my new budgeting app (and how I structure beta tests)
Просмотров 45 тыс.2 месяца назад
Hi my name is Chris and I build productivity apps (Mogul, Ellie and Luna) 👋 In this video I walk through the process of launching the first beta version of my new budgeting app. I sped run this in 48 hours and walk through some of the features I ended up shipping and how i structure beta tests for all my apps. Download Luna: lunabudgeting.com Check out my Twitter, Instagram and Tiktok where I p...
My approach to experimental features (and why they don't make it into the product)
Просмотров 4,5 тыс.3 месяца назад
Hi my name is Chris and I build productivity apps (Mogul, Ellie and Luna) 👋 In this video I walk through the process of building an AI feature for my app, why I decided to pull the feature last minute and how I think about AI features in general. Hope you guys find it interesting! Check out my Twitter, Instagram and Tiktok where I post way more frequently and build in public 👇 Twitter/X: twitte...
Speed coding a new feature for my app (with my friend) - Mini Hackathon + learning AWS S3
Просмотров 13 тыс.3 месяца назад
Hi my name is Chris and I build productivity apps (Mogul, Ellie and Luna) 👋 In this video my friend and I work on the new task attachments feature for Ellie. We show the behind the scenes of one of our "mini hackathon" nights, talk about learnings from working with S3 and more :) Check out my Twitter, Instagram and Tiktok where I post way more frequently and build in public 👇 Twitter/X: twitter...
My rapid app iteration process (also budgeting apps are hard) | Building Luna ep.4
Просмотров 16 тыс.3 месяца назад
Hi my name is Chris and I build productivity apps (Mogul, Ellie and Luna) 👋 In this video I go over all the iterations I made on Luna in the last 2 months. Its a pretty good insight into my early iteration process :) WAITLIST FOR LUNA: lunabudgeting.com Check out my Twitter, Instagram and Tiktok where I post way more frequently and build in public 👇 Twitter/X: raroque TikTok: www.ti...
Step by step of creating a new feature for my productivity app (a floating timer) - Ellie ep. 9
Просмотров 6 тыс.5 месяцев назад
Hi my name is Chris and I build productivity apps (Mogul, Ellie and Luna) 👋 In this video I'll be showing you how I build features. The feature we're building is a floating timer for Ellie. How you enjoy this more in-depth video video! Check out my Twitter, Instagram and Tiktok where I post way more frequently and build in public 👇 Twitter/X: raroque TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@chris.ra...
The tech stack I'm using to build my new budgeting app | Building Luna ep.3
Просмотров 6 тыс.6 месяцев назад
Hi my name is Chris and I build productivity apps (Mogul, Ellie and Luna) 👋 In this video I go over the tech stack I'm using to build Luna (budgeting app). Spoiler: its Swift and Supabase :) WAITLIST FOR LUNA: lunabudgeting.com Check out my Twitter, Instagram and Tiktok where I post way more frequently and build in public 👇 Twitter/X: raroque TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@chris.raroque In...
How I keep my app stable - Day in the life of a software developer (Building Ellie ep.6)
Просмотров 2,4 тыс.6 месяцев назад
Hi my name is Chris and I build productivity apps (Mogul, Ellie and Luna) 👋 In this video I take you through a day of "spring cleaning" for the app. This is a super important thing I do to make sure that app is stable as I release new/bigger features to the app Check out my Twitter, Instagram and Tiktok where I post way more frequently and build in public 👇 Twitter/X: raroque TikTok...
Building a new app - what I got done in the first 2 weeks (Building Luna ep.2)
Просмотров 6 тыс.6 месяцев назад
Hi my name is Chris and I build productivity apps (Mogul, Ellie and now Luna) 👋 In this video I go over what I did in the first 2 weeks of building my app. A lot of people ask me what the starting process looks like (Do I just design everything? Do I do marketing?) so I thought this would be cool to document! LUNA WAITLIST NOW OPEN 👉 lunabudgeting.com Check out my Twitter, Instagram and Tiktok ...
I'm building a budgeting app (and naming it after my dog)
Просмотров 6 тыс.7 месяцев назад
Hi my name is Chris and I build productivity apps (Mogul, Ellie and now Luna) 👋 In this video I go over the new budgeting app I'm building and answer some of the common questions I think I'm going to get :) LUNA WAITLIST NOW OPEN 👉 lunabudgeting.com Check out my Twitter, Instagram and Tiktok where I post way more frequently and build in public 👇 Twitter/X: raroque TikTok: www.tiktok...
Building an Outlook calendar integration for my app (spoiler: it was hard) | Building Ellie ep. 5
Просмотров 3 тыс.7 месяцев назад
Hi my name is Chris and I'm documenting my experience building a productivity app called Ellie 👋 In this video I take you guys through some of the challenges launching the new Outlook calendar integration for the app / what I do for a feature launch :) Check out my Twitter, Instagram and Tiktok where I post way more frequently and build in public 👇 Twitter/X: raroque TikTok: www.tik...
Building and launching an iOS widget for my productivity app (beta launch vlog!)
Просмотров 1,9 тыс.7 месяцев назад
Building and launching an iOS widget for my productivity app (beta launch vlog!)
Building a Duolingo style iOS widget for my productivity app
Просмотров 2,5 тыс.8 месяцев назад
Building a Duolingo style iOS widget for my productivity app
Building a todo/calendar iOS widget for my app (coding day in the life)
Просмотров 3,6 тыс.8 месяцев назад
Building a todo/calendar iOS widget for my app (coding day in the life)
Day in the life of a software developer (realistic) - meetings, gym, working on my side project
Просмотров 1,6 тыс.8 месяцев назад
Day in the life of a software developer (realistic) - meetings, gym, working on my side project
The tech stack I used to build my productivity app (Firebase, React and Swift)
Просмотров 2,1 тыс.8 месяцев назад
The tech stack I used to build my productivity app (Firebase, React and Swift)
Building a slack integration for my productivity app (and lessons learned)
Просмотров 1,1 тыс.9 месяцев назад
Building a slack integration for my productivity app (and lessons learned)
Search for tasks in Ellie (ellieplanner.com)
Просмотров 206Год назад
Search for tasks in Ellie (ellieplanner.com)
Timebox on Google calendar with Ellie (ellieplanner.com)
Просмотров 997Год назад
Timebox on Google calendar with Ellie (ellieplanner.com)
Email forwarding into ellieplanner.com 🤯
Просмотров 774Год назад
Email forwarding into ellieplanner.com 🤯
How I use my own app (ellieplanner.com) to timebox my day
Просмотров 7 тыс.2 года назад
How I use my own app (ellieplanner.com) to timebox my day
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@@raroque your app only works on iOS 17. When I upgrade my phone I will try it
Congratulations on the first paying customer! Great to see all the new features in the app. It would be nice to have some sort of window sliding up from the bottom with a quick summary of new features once they are added. I didn't know the recurring feature was available until i watched this video today. It's a really nice feature which adds a lot of value to the app. It would be a shame to miss out on that if i didn't see this video. Also are you planning on adding some localization? Would be nice to be able to switch the language from english to dutch in my case. As a developer i know this might be a lot of work but i think this would add a lot of value as well. Looking forward to the positive transactions. Keep up the good work 😁
i'm not sure if you have a video about the following topic, but would be nice if you would make a short video on how you use Luna throughout the day, just to see how you use it.
This is a really good idea, will be filming one soon once I get a few more features out :)
Amazing app! Do you use the ios emojis for android users too?
Thank you! It will convert to the Android equivalent automatically :)
Hi Chris, loving the content as always ❤. Still waiting on that video where you tell us more about yourself and how you made it this far as a Dev. Any ETA on it?
Thank you for watching! 🫶 This is a great idea, no ETA but I’ll try to film something in the next few weeks :)
I think this is an app that I'll be using (especially after Mint shut down), but man if I saw this in the app store, I'd probably skip over it due to the app icon. I wouldn't think it's a budgeting app at all 😅
Haha I get it As crazy as it sounds, its a tradeoff I'm willing to live with 😂 for some reason seeing the icon always reminds me not to take the app too seriously and just have fun building it
@@raroque love that ngl 🙏🏽
Hey Chris! As a fellow mobile app developer (React Native), I'd love to see a breakdown of how you built the backend-like the services you used, the database (SQL or NoSQL), payment integration, and how everything connects. A video on that would be super helpful and interesting for many developers like myself. 😊
Good idea! Until the video here is the summary: Firebase for most backend services (Auth, database) and using Firestore which is NoSQL (but honestly this is an app that should be using SQL, might change to Supabase or something in the future) Payments using Revenuecat (bc iOS doesn't allow stripe) and there is a small node server running on Render.com just for a few endpoints (the AI onboarding endpoint and small things) The stack is super simple tbh :)
CRM review yo.
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I would like to use the app but for me the major feature missing is import and export so that is why I am not using it. I have added same in feature request as well.
Will be doing export very soon! What type of import would you primarily use? CSV? :)
@@raroque yeah csv. It is easy to use and many other apps support that export format.
Hey chris , really nice video ! I was wondering if I could help you with more Quality Editing in your videos and also make a highly engaging Thumbnail and also help you with the overall youtube strategy and growth ! Pls let me know what do you think ?
Appreciate the offer man, but keeping it solo so i can get the hang of editing :)
you should make for android so we can use
On the roadmap, learning react native to do it :)
@@raroque better if you do with kotlin.
Would have been nice if it was for android
Will be learning react native to do this :)
Amazing to see the whole progress of the app on your channel! Great work man! Would love to see a multiple account option for those who spend money from more than one account :)
Thanks for following along! 🙏 on the roadmap and coming soon :)
Thanks for the cool insights!
Glad you found it helpful! :)
Can tools did you build the landing page with? And what email program do you use to collect emails?
Built with Framer and also using Framer forms :)
Hey man, best way for me to reach out to you to drop a portfolio / to chat more? :)
chris@aloa.co :)
Congrats, Chris! Happy for you and your progress!!
Appreciate it! Thank you so much for watching :)
Yayy!! Love these video updates ❤❤
Thanks so much for watching! 🫶
Quick question on acquisition of the customer. Do you know how they found out about the app? Was it through this video series?
need to double check but last I checked it was 80% from this video series, 10% twitter, 10% app store
@@raroque I would assume the 10% from the App Store are also from your video? I know when I installed it, I searching for it in the app store, not going through the link in your description. Unless you're running ads on the App Store, there's no way anyone is finding it organically - too many players at the top, right?
I think you should add Apple Sign In. It would be interesting to see if it would decrease the drop-off rate on the registration screen.
a few people have requested this! might have to do it 👀
Does your App Store the users data on your server? Or is it all held locally on the device and backed up via iCloud?
On a server (firebase firestore), but I also store a copy locally on device to power the widgets (and possibly support offline mode fully in the future!)
I do like the bar chat that shows you your daily purchases, like history and what you did. Can you add that back at the bottom of the page?
Actually made that the new transactions page :) I also loved it haha
This really great! Im curious, whats the most used feature in the app ? And how do you talk to users do they respond or ignore it most of the time ?
Thank you! Right now there aren't many features in the app yet but the most used is creating transactions (which is the main one haha) but a close second is starting to be the graphs and charts, a lot of people have been opening and checking them 👀 mainly talk through email/feedback board but its usually them reaching out to me so i never have much problem with responses!
@@raroque I've sent out about 30 emails or texts asking for feedback and I only got a couple so far :D The next thing I'm going to try is a survey. I think I would personally have trouble coming up with a response to an open-ended question like "what is your feedback?, which is what I've been subjecting my users to the whole time A structured, easy to answer, survey will likely do wonders for my feedback responses.
Congratulations!! I want to try the app however I do not have an iPhone. I will let my iPhone friends know about this!
Will be working hard to bring this to Android/web! And really appreciate you spreading the word 🙏🙏
Huge milestone bro!
Yoo thank you 🙏
Need this on Androiddddd
Will be learning react native just for this! 🤞
same haha
I love this thing.. I have tried many budgeting apps but this is the only one Ive consisntely used
Wow that means a lot to hear 🙏 thanks for giving it a chance and let me know if there is anything I can improve for you in the future!
Congrats! As a dev, I’d be curious to hear about the complexity of building repeating features.
Soooooo complex, will make a video 😅 Thanks for watching!
Actually would be interesting to know how you approach this. I never had to do it for my projects, what I would do is to create a table on db for recurrent transaction and use them as a “template” for actual transactions. The with a cron every night check which recurring transactions need to happen and create the necessary records on the actual transactions table
Love your series, learning so much! I know you said it in past videos but I couldn’t find which app you using for your feedback forum?
Nvm I just found it! Seriously don’t stop making videos
Thank you so much for watching! Comments like this really motivate me 🙏 (posting link in case anyone else wanted to see: canny.io/register?referral=OWkgir)
congrats! Love seeing the progress. I have been watching it as a dev but one way I would actually pay for it is if it had zero based budgeting like you mentioned, that's something I use and I cant live without it, seeing my available income go down after I allocate money and see how much I used? Curious how long it will take to add plaid (or anything like that) and import transactions from bank account and let users select a category for those imported transactions
Thank you! 0 based will 100% will be coming soon, I actually tried to implement it a few weeks ago and quickly realized that I was missing so many little features that make it possible that I had to go back to the drawing board 😅 Foundation is almost complete, so you can expect it soon! Holding off on plaid as long as possible, but already have a branch where I am testing this 👀👀
@@raroque Cant wai't! You will def have another customer but make sure it has Canadian institutions haha
When is the android app coming out?
Unfortunately no timeline, this is a very hard one bc of how complex the app is :( Im going to learn react native though for my other app and if things go well, will try to port Ellie over too!
Hi Chris, the video was super cool and detailed💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾😎. I liked it a lot. What stood out to me was how you had a roadmap and how you were keeping track of features that your users wanted to be implemented. Each of the features had a number before it and that would show you how much a feature is needed by users. I was just wondering how did you implement that? Is that like a software or.....?
Thank you so much for watching! :) Using Canny for the feedback board: canny.io/register?referral=OWkgir Highlight recommend!
Congrats
thank you! :)
Super inspiring. I also build product for my own so I know the feeling. Congratulations bro
Thank you! Would love to hear what you are building :)
Beautiful app. S/o to Luna.
Appreciate that! Lots of energy poured into the design of this one🐶
Congrats! May i know how did you learn how to code?
Thank you! Self taught! just a LOT of youtube videos and tutorials biggest advice is to start very small so you don't get burnt out, there are a ton of good free tutorials out there might make a video on this 👀
@@raroque that’s a.very good idea of you making a video on your coding journey! Definitely looking forward to it!
@@matthewchiang282 will be sure to comment back here once thats up :)
@@raroque Please, I would love to watch it!
This was a huge milestone, thank you to everyone for following along and being part of the journey so far 🙏 If you have any questions let me know, happy to share anything I can :)
Congrats!
Thank you :)
This is so impressive. Congratulations!!
Appreciate that! Thanks for following along Evan 🙌
Congrats bud. All your hard work, starting to pay off 🎉
Took some time but finally feeing the effects 🙌 Thanks for following along :)
Great video, what do you use for in app payments. Something like reveneucat?
Thank you! Yes using Revenuecat :)
@@raroque thx for your reaction, is this the best Option ? Because we wan t use stripe right?
@@joshbleijenberg4000 so far this is the best option I’ve found. Unfortunately Stripe not possible for iOS :(
Congrats !!
Thank you :) let me know if there is anything you want to see in the future!
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I've been a product designer for a decade. I'd love to work with you to solve some stuff man :)
Appreciate the offer! Keeping it solo for now but would love to see some of your stuff, got a portfolio? :)
@@raroque happy to do so :) Wheres the best place to reach you
Hi, how do you communicate to your users?
Mainly email and the feedback boards :)
When it comes to android?
No ETA sadly but will be learning react native to ship this!
I've predominantly used mixpanel but oh man that sidebar UI of PostHog looks so sleek
Hello may you please advise me on launching my app. The application includes a rasa server, also rasa actions. It has 2 flask apps. All of these have been containerized using Docker. I used Docker Compose because I have 5 containers. The frontend is built using React Native. For its functionality there are about 21 MySQL databases. I want to deploy this app. I want to publish it on Google Play Store and Apple app store. I was hoping to spend little to no money on all of this since its a hobby project. I know I have to pay for a google console account and an apple developer account. My dilemma is with deploying/hosting. I was hoping to host my backend and database on one platform, however any cost effective methods would be fine. I will kindly await your response.
Thank you❤
Absolutely :)
What do you use to power your contact form? Where does it go?
Using Framer forms (built into Framer) and it goes directly to email :)
@@raroque ahh! makes sense. Thank you. Since im using raw next.js for my landing. Do you have any suggestions towards any libraries I could use to accomplish the same thing?