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111 sats \ 0 replies \ @felipe OP 8 Nov 2023 \ parent \ on: Ask SN: Anyone interested in funding the development of the unofficial SN app? meta

Hey, @Michelson_Morley!

Thank you for your kind words, man! Also, thank you for the heads up about the current Apple development situation.

Yeah, I'm pretty familiar with the Damus shut down and zap problems and I'm aware of the arbitrarities imposed by Apple on developers. I've a few apps in production on the App Store and it's always a pain when I have to send new versions.

I know it's not going to be possible to zap posts so I was thinking on following Damus steps and implement it on the creator's profile only.

Secondly, Christian Selig worked at Apple before he made the app that became so popular... He was extremely good at design, his app was a hundred times better than the official reddit native app.

Yeah, it's going to take a lot of work to make a good app. I'm an experienced developer (not bragging), programming professionally since 2010 and developing for Android since 2014 so I know it's not easy at all to deliver good software.

When I was doing mobile apps, it was usually never worth developing for Android over Apple because android users don't spend money on apps.

Sad but true :(. But, fortunately, my plan is to make the app free as in freedom and as in beer and fund the development with the help of the community.

Thanks again, @Michelson_Morley!

ps: The app is already in development. I just didn't put much time on it the past 2 or 3 months.

https://github.com/felipebueno/stacker_news/