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Building brandtnew apps with React Native, Expo, and Supabase. Built & sold WeBurn 💪 Now working on @roamwise.app
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Thank you! 😊
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But great apps like Instagram, Phantom, Tesla are also done with React Native and they lead their markets.
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Thank you! Just sprinkled in a little bit of playfulness there 🎮
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Weird. Sollte aber. Ich check das mal 😁
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Why not? 👀
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8/ Over the next weeks, I'll share more insights on design, development, ASO, marketing, and the realities of being a solopreneur juggling multiple roles 👀
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7/ I'm happy to have finally released Roamwise for iOS this week! It's been a tough few days making Apple happy (the good old reviews).
But hey, it's now live on the App Store! Check it out and let me know what you think 🙏
apps.apple.com/app/id67436...
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6/ Roamwise combines three simple, privacy-first methods: 📸 Photos Analysis (timestamps & GPS data) 📍 GPS Check-ins (daily logging) ✍️ Manual Logging (easy adjustments)
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5/ Admittedly, I spent way too much time perfecting the user experience. I even built my own animation system based on Reanimated—which I'll be using for future apps, too (right? 😅)
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4/ After selling my previous app, WeBurn, I wanted to put everything I'd learned into practice: from UX excellence to technical reliability. Roamwise was the perfect small-but-polished project.
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3/ As a frequent traveler myself, I needed a tool that simplified compliance tracking—especially spending significant time between Germany and the UK. So, I decided to build Roamwise myself.
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2/ I saw an Instagram ad from a competitor promoting a travel compliance app. The idea seemed great, but I knew the UX could be WAY better. Plus, if someone was advertising, there had to be a real need, right?
I went from "wireframes" on my iPad directly into code 👇
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🔥🔥🔥
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Thought I‘d be the only one, lol 😂
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I‘d be interested to know how you set up your tailwind themes for dark mode. I don’t want to write two styles for each component, and rather use bg-background-primary once.
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No more mysterious Xcode and Android Studio errors thanks to @expo.dev 👀
I once had to use reanimated 1 for a math learning app with drag & drop, etc. - that was a real pain!
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Yes, definitely something I learned the hard way today 😊
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Will you open-source it or publish to the stores?
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Oh, and it looks amazing by the way! Look at you doing better AI image editing before Apple did 😂🥳
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Didn’t know about Galeria! 👀 Thank you!
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Maybe a Nothing Phone?
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I love that! 😍
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👋👋👋
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Ended up using expo-SQLite with @drizzle.team ❤️
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I built exactly the same logic for tracking the user‘s current location in @roamwise.app 😊
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Shout-out to you for sharing this EXACTLY when I need it! 😄
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Didn’t know about expo atlas before. Thanks 😊
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I'll go with a privacy-first & local-first approach. Keeping the user's location data on their device. The app might feel creepy otherwise. Might add optional iCloud sync later.
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I just don’t want to risk having to migrate data storage later on. I‘d rather not touch that again so I don’t risk deleting the user‘s travel data for tax and visa compliance.
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Saving thousands of key-value pairs where the key is a date string and the value is an array of strings (country codes) with logic like no duplicate country codes allowed per date might become pretty slow on older devices, I‘m afraid. Especially when I do more advanced query operations 😅
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😍😍😍 React Native clearly loves YOU!
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Smart move though! Thank you for explaining 😊 Maybe it would work to rotate the numbers in and out like in a slot machine. There are LayoutAnimations you can use for that I think. Scale In Bottom etc. You‘d put the last number in the Animated View to the right. Might fix the wobbliness.
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Thank you! Aiming for a release next week 🚀🌕
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👀
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I wonder where that feeling comes from. Because we certainly don’t feel it on Instagram, right?