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Show HN: I built a release tracker for my indie apps (drobinin.com)
3 points by valzevul 44 days ago | hide | past | favorite
Over the past year I shipped a bunch of iOS and visionOS apps, and the messy part was often not the code but everything around the release - future plans, bug and feature requests buried in reviews, App Store in-app events, featuring nominations, blog drafts, launch posts, and random ideas I got when scrolling HN.

I tried using general-purpose tools for this (Notes, Obsidian, Trello, and Jira to name a few), but they were either built around sprints, story points, team workflows, and tickets, or did only a part of what I needed well. What I actually wanted was a single place to track releases and all the admin/marketing/store work that comes with them.

I ended up building a wee app for that purpose specifically. Today it is mainly aimed at indie Apple-platform devs. It syncs with App Store Connect, pulls in apps, events and nominations, lets me track launch content alongside releases, and has a CLI/MCP server for terminal/AI-driven workflows. It runs natively on macOS, iOS and iPadOS.

It is still early and a bit mobile-dev-specific, but that focus is also the point - I wanted something that fits the way solo app shipping works rather than another generic project board, but I am open to making it more universal in the future.

Would love feedback, especially from people shipping their own apps.



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