Personally I really don’t like the RTK API - I find it not very readable. Plain redux is heavy on boilerplate, so I’d generally choose something other than redux in a new project. I don’t hate it enough to rip it out of existing projects though.

Given redux pre-dates functional components and hooks, this seems a bit backwards.

I think most apps don’t need redux or similar. Tanstack Query and some contexts for specific bits of shared local state is often enough.

Sometimes you want redux or one of the newer alternatives.

China is just such a big market. I once worked with a Chinese iOS developer who had built two 50+ million user social networks no-one outside China has heard of.

Twitter/X only has outsized influence because it’s where news breaks first. If it loses that it’s nothing special.

Did you ever see App.net? Don’t follow that URL, the thing I’m talking about is long dead. Someone tried to make a paid Twitter alternative focussed on being a protocol rather than another algorithmic ad feed. Did not work at VC-backed scale. This one could be different though as X is so bad now.

I couldn’t find one, but I’m finding the “Popular with friends” feed good for this kind of discovery.

This is tough. Until he’s able to understand why it’s wrong I’d recommend having some things he really likes to distract him with while returning whatever was taken to his younger sibling.

Also remember it’s a phase and it won’t last forever.

In the US only, back in January… but Apple still charges a commission on the earnings, which developers have to report.

There’s a whole other set of rules for the EU with a similar (but different) outcome. Not worth it for most devs.

You can use Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 3.5 in Cursor if you’re already paying for that.

Or try it in the free Windsurf trial to see if it works for you.

No need to pay for a separate Anthropic subscription.

Oh yes, this is me. Please add me.

Let me know what aspects of the process you’d like to know about? Or if you’re in the market for a translation SaaS, what features you want me to build?

This is a slow-mo build as those 2.5 hours have been across 2 weekends of free time so far. All these makers on BlueSky are inspiring me to make some more time for it though.

It just couldn’t get the config right so I had to check the docs and fix it manually. I suspect Cursor would have been able to do it with the appropriate docs page added to context, but otherwise Windsurf has been a big step up from previous experiments with cursor.

Next up, login & auth.

It’s fun! I’m ~2.5 hours in, have 3 pages a couple of tables and a whole load of endpoints hooked up. I can create project, add/remove languages, add/remove strings to translate and translations for each. UX needs a lot of work.

So far the only thing the AI couldn’t do was connect to the local DB.

Let me know what features you’d want from the localisation SaaS!

Braze replacement I think needs targeted push first. Probably then in-app messages with event triggers, and for most also email.

You need to be able to have drip-style campaigns for those, maybe across all of them.

The dream would be something to replace marketing comms tools. The likes of Airship & Braze are insanely expensive and really not good either. That’s a lot of work though, probably its own startup.

Thanks!

First is just scratching an itch for localisation. SaaS tools to manage translations are generally either very limited or crazy expensive.

If that’s not too much hard work, probably some analytics you can self-host on Cloudflare. The good ones are crazy expensive when you scale a bit…

I’m not currently indie hacking on mobile, I’m building a React Native app for a startup. However, my side projects are some tools for app devs… working towards building my own app that uses them.

Would love to be added, but also being transparent in case not a fit.

Looks like you’re mostly in a couple of states in the US. The majority of our activity is currently in the UK, which is also where I am.

I tried to search where there was stuff though and it didn’t seem to work.