7 episodes
Ship Fam - Indie Enterpeneurship, App Dev, Flutter and more! Luke Pighetti and Casey Rogers
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Luke is a professional frontend engineer building a portfolio of indie apps and developer tools. Casey is an ex Google/Firebase backend engineer breaking into indie app development with the viral sports trivia app "Dribble Game Trivia".
Each episode we bring on a new guest from the Build In Public community to learn from their bootstrap journey! We cover everything from TikTok content strategies to ASO to building an algorithmic newsfeed on serverless SAAS.
Join us on our journey and learn along with us as we bootstrap and ship our way to financial freedom with Flutter and friends!
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"eXtreme Go Horse" and Why Experienced Engineers Do Everything Wrong (TM)
Luke and I riff on "eXtreme Go Horse", a Brazilian coding style we discovered through a youtube video by the Primeagen.
We discuss how experienced engineers so often engage in "bad" practices that beginner engineers are trained to avoid and share instructive and entertaining stories from our respective careers in tech.
Extreme Go Horse:
https://medium.com/@dekaah/22-axioms-of-the-extreme-go-horse-methodology-xgh-9fa739ab55b4
theprimeagen on Sprints and XGH:
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Luke Solo Ep - Thenics Pro Status update
Casey is traveling back from Europe to the land of the free and the home of the brave so this week's episode is a solo episode with Luke giving a status update on his newly launched calisthenics app "Thenics Pro".
Hear about App Store app pre-orders, ads for ASO and gauging product-market fit.
https://thenicspro.com/
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Luke walks away from his six figure salary
Luke talks about: the solar eclipse, quitting his job at tonal, and the "Waffle House" top-of-funnel experiment that he's currently running with this new exercise app, Thenics Pro.
Download Thenics Pro:
https://thenicspro.com/
Follow Luke and Casey on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/luke_pighetti
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Dart Code Metrics - Monetizing Client Side Tools and The Downsides of Open Source Software
We brought on Dmitry Zhifarsky to talk about his premium Dart/Flutter analysis tool "Dart Code Metrics".
We focus on the downsides to open source software and the challenges of monetizing client-side software.
Check out DCM and Dmitry's Twitter here:
https://dcm.dev/
https://twitter.com/_incendial
Follow Luke and Casey on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/luke_pighetti
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Dribble Game and Financial Independence - pt 2.
This is a follow up to last week's episode on Dribble Game-Casey's viral NBA trivia app.
This week's episode focuses on ASO and paywall optimization strategies that Casey got from an app audit with Steve Young from the app consultant firm App Masters. Over the next month Casey intends to implement these ideas and 5-10x Dribble Game's revenue. We'll have a followup episode in May to discuss the results!
App Masters:
https://appmasters.com
Steve's youtube channel (great free content):
https://www.youtube.com/@AppMasters
Luke on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/luke_pighetti
Casey on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/caseycrogers -
A Viral Trivia App and Financial Independence - pt 1.
Casey talks about Dribble Game Trivia, the viral basketball trivia app he built in Flutter with Taylor Stein. The app reached #23 for Trivia on the App Store and has taken Casey 20% of the way to "ramen profitable".
Listen to this episode to hear about how he's gotten there and then tune in to part 2 next week to hear about the ASO and monetization audit AppMasters did on Dribble and the strategies they provided to 5-10x daily revenue!
https://dribblegame.com/install