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  New #BuildInPublic #IndieHackers reporting this week! I'm trying to re-establish focus and figure out what is most important. Sales were fine last week. Crashes are looking not-great, especially now I have them on a chart...

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  This week's numbers: Not thrilled with the sales but so many people are signing up to the mailing list! Haven't started cracking on with all the crash fixes yet, but will start soon. #BuildInPublic #IndieHackers

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  This is getting a bit grim - another 20% since last week. #BuildInPublic #IndieHackers I'm working on getting some advertising going but it's a lot to figure out. Hopefully then things will start picking up. Also as the mailing list approaches 3,000 subscribers, it's a good time to start making better use of it. But still, this one hurts!

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  Fucker of a #BuildInPublic week last week. I was "sort of" on holiday but still mostly working, and then I shipped a version of Shoot which crashed on startup for some users. Stressful panic while I fixed it as quickly as I possibly could, but Apple delayed it all by an extra day by picking up on a tangential problem so I had to implement a new feature just to get it through App review. Going through an #IndieHackers slump at the moment, but I'll turn it around soon.

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  The irony of ChatGPT is that it understands people better than I do. It's really putting me in a position to blow my business wide open. #BuildInPublic

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  this is huge! The fact they use JSON files had let me create apps for the ecosystem, but this is next level.

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  Sitting here going "Ugh, GPT4 is so slow". How quickly we get used to new things...

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  @davidgarywood i could take a look (iOS dev and someone with live visuals apps of my own)

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  SQL UPDATE commands are terrifying to type by hand. ``` update users set email='michael@squares.tv' where email='michael@somewhereelse.com'; ``` Change one user ✅ ``` update users set email=michael@squares.tv'; where email='michael@somewehreelse.com' ``` Change EVERY user 💣💥

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  Oh shit, why did I think ChatGPT wasn't able to provide citations?? I never ask! Now I think of it, it wasn't that it couldn't, it's that it often makes them up. But damn, this changes my whole relationship with it. Instead of jumping off to Google (with its spammy, mostly useless results) when it starts hallucinating, I can get a couple of links directly.

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  @kslazinski there was a time when waiting up to ten days was normal…

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  @kslazinski this week I’m sitting here worried about App Store Connect - I haven’t seen any new numbers since the 30th June - such a flakey platform sometimes. Anyway yeah I’m glad they sorted out the review process - when I worked on the MUBI app I was the sole developer, working with no testers serving thousands of users - one wrong move and it could take more than a week to get the app back online 😫submitting for review was terrifying!

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  New header bar in #VisualStudioCode, with navigation and search, is going to mitigate a LOT of confusion for new users! I got used to the weird keyboard shortcuts long ago, but this puts key functionality front and centre, where it should be. What took them so long! 😅

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  If you're using #ChatGPT for coding, you should definitely add this to your Custom Instructions:

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  Goodbye London!

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  @jonkit Hi Jon, are you on a Mac?

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  @jonkit Ok cool that gives us some wiggle room (the App Store doesn't support individual discounts). CueCam Presenter is my new Mac app that works with Video Pencil (and also lets you load up video files or play YouTube videos). I can offer bespoke pricing on CueCam and this will automatically unlock Video Pencil (and Shoot!). If you drop me an email at michael@squares.tv we can figure out what sort of pricing might work for you.

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  @jonkit note that the only difference between free and paid Video Pencil is the watermark though - will the kids mind? :)