Thanks so much for watching! 🙏 This is my first real general advice type video so any feedback is appreciated. Still trying to figure out how in-depth to go with these so please let me know if you want longer versions of these (maybe even a multi-part series) :)
Love the approach of getting the basics working first before worrying about complex and in-depth analytics. You've uploaded this video at the perfect time for me as I'm just about to start implementing analytics in preparation for my first beta test
One thing I believe is essential in Luna is the ability to work with multiple currencies simultaneously. In my case (and for most developers working remotely while living outside the U.S.), my salary is in U.S. dollars, but I live in Uruguay, so my expenses are in both UYU and USD. In many countries like Uruguay, the local currency is used for everyday expenses, while U.S. dollars are typically used for larger purchases like appliances or furniture. This makes it a bit difficult to keep track of my expenses in Luna.
Appreciate the feedback here! One things that is hard with this is the totals, it would probably require currency conversion in the calculation. Would you expect the exchange rate to be calculated at the time of transaction? Or updated on a more real time basis?
appreciate that :) I need to make a video on this, but the high-level advice is to expose yourself to a lot of different designs constantly. So I’m always browsing design Twitter, dribbble and a ton of other places looking for new elements/colors/patterns that I can use in my apps
For sure! Will definitely make an update video, but so far $0 sales but this was expected haha Today is actually the 14 day mark so free trials are finally ending so if anyone is interested in upgrading, today would be the first day. But I also think the feature set isn't good enough yet for people to commit, but in a few weeks it will be 👀
Thanks for the solid actionable tips! You said you reached out to users to see why they dropped off. How did you go about doing that? Did you have a flow that automatically emailed users?
For sure! Pure manual outreach for now, I think almost every person who signed up knew I was the one developing it so the response rate was 100% too :)
Glad you found it helpful! As a solo dev I would recommend actually picking what you move the fastest with (in my case, native was actually faster bc im faster with Swift haha) but also i would factor in how important cross platform is. if its a big deal for your app, i would go RN I'll be learning RN to try to ship the Android version of this (still prefer swift so will actually maintain 2 codebases for mobile)
I am working on a teleprompter app with some friends and we have around 600 users. Haven't been looking at data on week 1 retention or sign up to feature use, so this is very helpful! I will get back to you if we see any improvements because of this :) Question: What do you use to monitor subscriptions and app purchases (ex: Store Kit 1, Store Kit 2, Revenuecat or other option)?
@@raroque Got our app to 10% monthly retention and have definitely seen more conversions. Thanks for the help. Curious to hear: What don't you know that you wish you did about your app users?
@@alexkubbinga842 Thats so awesome to hear! Congrats on that :) I wish i knew where they came from, this would help me figure out how to improve funnel/marketing. Huge blindspot for me right now
Ah ya wish I recorded that 😅 Posthog has a premade chart actually called a retention chart that will do this for you but basically you feed in your "key" metric (in my app that would be creating a task) and then it will automatically give you the week 1, week 2, week 3, etc... retention on average
New here, are you a solo dev full time or still working a dev job? Im a new indie dev and these videos are great, im looking forward to seeing your progress 👍
All front end, for my react apps I do it in JS and then I do direct calls in Swift for the iOS apps :) (App in example is Ellie, which is on both web and iOS)
Just curious - for your app dev are you using Flutter, React Native, Swift, etc? Working on an app myself and trying to decide. Leaning towards React Native.
Swift! But I’m probably going to have to learn react native to do the android version. Sounds crazy, but I’m probably going to maintain the swift version for iOS and RN purely for android My advice is to pick the one that you lean more towards, even if it’s just a little bit :)
@@robertorufino3852 The jump to RN is a bit easier for me coming from a React background but in the end I might end up doing Kotlin if RN doesn't feel right!
Absolutely! Aside from talking to users to figure out which critical features are missing, finding the magic moment feature and cutting down every step to get there is #2 👀
The cost for google play account developer is 25$ for one time and the cost of apple store account developer is 100$ and renew every new year so what's make you develop for ios devices while the development for android is cheaper than ios ? And where are you from ?
Cost is much higher (and also considering you need a Mac to do swift development specifically, even higher cost overall haha) but the main reason is I use an iPhone personally and the apps I build the apps with myself as the primary user in mind :) If i swapped to an Android phone, that would probably change and I would probably focus more on Android dev but for now iPhone!
Thanks so much for watching! 🙏
This is my first real general advice type video so any feedback is appreciated. Still trying to figure out how in-depth to go with these so please let me know if you want longer versions of these (maybe even a multi-part series) :)
Love the approach of getting the basics working first before worrying about complex and in-depth analytics. You've uploaded this video at the perfect time for me as I'm just about to start implementing analytics in preparation for my first beta test
Good to hear!
Let me know if you have any specific questions, and good luck! :)
loved your journey so far, im also working on my own app, you have given me so much advices that I took into account.
Thanks!, love your channel.
Thank you so much for watching and good luck on your journey! 🙌
This is exceptional stuffff🎉
🙏🙏 appreciate that! Lmk if there is anything else you wanna see in the future :)
One thing I believe is essential in Luna is the ability to work with multiple currencies simultaneously. In my case (and for most developers working remotely while living outside the U.S.), my salary is in U.S. dollars, but I live in Uruguay, so my expenses are in both UYU and USD. In many countries like Uruguay, the local currency is used for everyday expenses, while U.S. dollars are typically used for larger purchases like appliances or furniture. This makes it a bit difficult to keep track of my expenses in Luna.
Appreciate the feedback here!
One things that is hard with this is the totals, it would probably require currency conversion in the calculation. Would you expect the exchange rate to be calculated at the time of transaction? Or updated on a more real time basis?
OMG thank you very much. This is sooooo clarifying ❤
Glad you found it useful :)
Yo loving the build in public series!
Thanks so much for following along! 🙇♂️
This is sooo good!!
Thank you! 🙏
one thing i really like about your design is how they make the app feel comfy . curious if you have tips on on someone can improve his design ?
appreciate that :)
I need to make a video on this, but the high-level advice is to expose yourself to a lot of different designs constantly. So I’m always browsing design Twitter, dribbble and a ton of other places looking for new elements/colors/patterns that I can use in my apps
Amazing! Thank you so much 🙌
For sure :)
Thanks for watching and lmk if you have any specific questions!
Valuable content. Thank you very much for sharing it.
Absolutely! Let me know if there is anything else you want to see :)
Thanks very much for the video. Would be curious to see a video on how Luna launch pricing went
For sure!
Will definitely make an update video, but so far $0 sales but this was expected haha
Today is actually the 14 day mark so free trials are finally ending so if anyone is interested in upgrading, today would be the first day. But I also think the feature set isn't good enough yet for people to commit, but in a few weeks it will be 👀
Thank you so much
For sure! Thanks for watching :)
Thanks for the solid actionable tips! You said you reached out to users to see why they dropped off. How did you go about doing that? Did you have a flow that automatically emailed users?
For sure! Pure manual outreach for now, I think almost every person who signed up knew I was the one developing it so the response rate was 100% too :)
Nice video! Can you also make a video about your CI/CD pipeline and hosting your backend and database and their costs
CI/CD is actually just Vercel’s built in pipeline!
But will likely make a video on my tech stack/cost :)
This is pure gold, but how did you get users to use the app ?
Will make a separate video!
But almost all build in public + some cross promotion through my other app :)
Such an insightful video! What are your thoughts on making native iOS apps vs using React Native or expo, especially as a solo dev?
Glad you found it helpful!
As a solo dev I would recommend actually picking what you move the fastest with (in my case, native was actually faster bc im faster with Swift haha)
but also i would factor in how important cross platform is. if its a big deal for your app, i would go RN
I'll be learning RN to try to ship the Android version of this (still prefer swift so will actually maintain 2 codebases for mobile)
I am working on a teleprompter app with some friends and we have around 600 users. Haven't been looking at data on week 1 retention or sign up to feature use, so this is very helpful! I will get back to you if we see any improvements because of this :)
Question: What do you use to monitor subscriptions and app purchases (ex: Store Kit 1, Store Kit 2, Revenuecat or other option)?
Yes please let me know!
And revenuecat :)
@@raroque Got our app to 10% monthly retention and have definitely seen more conversions. Thanks for the help.
Curious to hear:
What don't you know that you wish you did about your app users?
@@alexkubbinga842 Thats so awesome to hear! Congrats on that :)
I wish i knew where they came from, this would help me figure out how to improve funnel/marketing. Huge blindspot for me right now
Would have loved to see how you actually track the week one retention in your code. Could you explain the logic in simple terms?
Ah ya wish I recorded that 😅
Posthog has a premade chart actually called a retention chart that will do this for you but basically you feed in your "key" metric (in my app that would be creating a task) and then it will automatically give you the week 1, week 2, week 3, etc... retention on average
@@raroqueAwesome. Will definitely try PostHog.
Thanks for sharing.
Can you make a video explaining how you did marketing for your app?
tbh all marketing has been building in public like this video :)
But will definitely make a video about marketing!
Congrats on your work, pretty inspiring! Are any of your apps brining in any income?
Thank you!
Ellie and Mogul both do :)
Luna is at a cool $0 right now haha
@@raroque thats really awesome!
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
🤝
🫡 good to see you
New here, are you a solo dev full time or still working a dev job? Im a new indie dev and these videos are great, im looking forward to seeing your progress 👍
Thank you for following along!
Working full time at (aloa.co), but will likely never go full indie bc I love it :)
Have you implemented analytics in the backend which is written in js. Or am I missing something?
All front end, for my react apps I do it in JS and then I do direct calls in Swift for the iOS apps :)
(App in example is Ellie, which is on both web and iOS)
While you were talking I kept looking at your house..... May be a house tour won't be a bad idea
I never thought anyone would ask for this haha
I’m down though, also doing a
Hackathon vlog style video soon so you’ll see a bit more of it :)
Just curious - for your app dev are you using Flutter, React Native, Swift, etc? Working on an app myself and trying to decide. Leaning towards React Native.
Swift!
But I’m probably going to have to learn react native to do the android version. Sounds crazy, but I’m probably going to maintain the swift version for iOS and RN purely for android
My advice is to pick the one that you lean more towards, even if it’s just a little bit :)
@@raroque why don't you stick to native for Android as well and pick kotlin?
@@robertorufino3852 The jump to RN is a bit easier for me coming from a React background
but in the end I might end up doing Kotlin if RN doesn't feel right!
How do you set up week one retention?
Actually super easy on post hog, there is a built in retention graph that just needs to know your “core action” and automatically calculates this :)
Hi, how do you communicate to your users?
Mainly email and the feedback boards :)
Thanks a lot for these videos! Would you share your tips for improving the 1st week's retention?
Absolutely!
Aside from talking to users to figure out which critical features are missing, finding the magic moment feature and cutting down every step to get there is #2 👀
@@raroque thank you!
You may want to have a feature for offline access.
Soon, built the infrastructure to handle it starting day 1 👀 just need to iron out edge cases and test
The cost for google play account developer is 25$ for one time and the cost of apple store account developer is 100$ and renew every new year so what's make you develop for ios devices while the development for android is cheaper than ios ? And where are you from ?
Cost is much higher (and also considering you need a Mac to do swift development specifically, even higher cost overall haha) but the main reason is I use an iPhone personally and the apps I build the apps with myself as the primary user in mind :)
If i swapped to an Android phone, that would probably change and I would probably focus more on Android dev but for now iPhone!
iOS users pay for subscriptions, android users don't
@@numb980 100% this is a big reason most companies choose to focus on iOS as well, spend is a lot higher on average 👆