iOS dev, ex Hardware engineer, and dad of 3 (2 girls and 1 cat). Creator of @LittleGreyBook7 and @EVEntifyAppy. Excited about IoT. Love Star Wars!
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Adversary is presented on a Huge billboard in Times Square 🤩
Adversary won Catvertising at Shipaton 2026. Next stop: Times Square 🗽
I'm demoing it at @RevenueCat's #Shipaton Demo Day on Oct 22, open
10am–6pm ET. Drop by and tell me what you think.
Niv Ben-Porath 👨🏻💻🏡 🇮🇱 retweeted
what a bangeeeerrrrrr feature! thank you @rayanabdulcader
From Manila to Times Square. 🇵🇭🗽
Adrian Abelarde and his team built Clucky, an alarm clock app with a chicken on it 🐔, and it won 1st place and $20K at RevenueCat's Shipaton. It's now on a billboard in Times Square.
No giant AI startup. A simple idea, a personality people remember, and the guts to ship it. 🔥
Got a "dumb" little app sitting in your drafts? Ship it.
This is @adrianabelarde!!
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From shipping apps to taking over Times Square.
Our #Shipaton winners got the billboards, the live demos, and a visit from Shippy.
Not your average hackathon prize.
What a way to close out #NewYorkAppWeek! 📷
Cool apps for Duo
After a long day playing my fake iPhone Duo accordion, I like to unwind with a fake grilled cheese sandwich made on my fake Duo panini press and have a cold fake beer from my fake Duo fridge. Then listen to my fake Walkman and play a little fake soccer and fake Battleship. All on a very real $2,000 phone.
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If you have an iPhone Duo, I’d really appreciate it if you could try Memories: Things We Keep and send me a few photos of how it looks! 🥹🫶🏻
apps.apple.com/ar/app/memori…
#iPhoneDuo #AppStore #Apple #BuildInPublic
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Shipaton 2026 winners, 8/20: Design Award 🎨
The award for the care you can feel when you use an app, and these three are full of small details.
Clucky: an alarm clock with a rooster that really wants you out of bed. You set the time by scrolling the rooster's eyes, with its yellow beak as the pointer, and to stop it you solve a problem, move around or find an object. My alarm only has a snooze button and zero personality :-)
Aweigh: Washington State ferry times on iPhone and Apple Watch, shown on a departure board that flips like the signs at the terminal, with haptics.
Buck: it identifies coins and banknotes, and every scan gets its own little celebration with animation, sound and haptics. The paywall shows the coin you just scanned, which is smart.
Pricing nerd note: both Clucky and Buck set their own price per country. Clucky's yearly plan is $19.99 in the US and ₹469 (about $5) in India, Buck's yearly is $39.99 in the US and ₹1,069 (about $11). Nice to see.
That's what PricePush does for every country at once: you set one price, it suggests a fair one per country and pushes them to the App Store and Google Play. Free for one app, pricepush[.]app
Congrats @adrianabelarde_ @tryclucky @zachcolem @jurree
#Shipaton #AppDesign #UIDesign #IndieDev #iOSDev
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Shipaton 2026 winners, 9/20: Catvertising Award 🐱
The award for putting ads inside an app in a creative way, where the ad connects to something the user already wants to do.
Adversary: a memory game with one unpaired Danger card. Reveal it and the ad becomes part of the board you're trying to remember. An ad that players actively try to avoid, which is maybe the most honest ad design I've seen :-) The judges called it the most creative integration of the whole judging.
WALLO: a live photo and sticker guestbook for parties. When one guest watches a rewarded ad as the "Room Hero", the posting cooldown drops for everyone in the room.
ate: snap your meal and it becomes a cut-out sticker in your food collection. When the free scans run out, a rewarded video unlocks one more, so you can still save the meal in front of you.
Congrats @nbpapps @egorkabantsov and Nurazim
#Shipaton #IndieDev #AppMonetization #MobileAds
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MY APP IS IN TIMES SQUARE! 🇺🇸🗽
Unreal to see this but my #shipaton app is currently advertised in the big apple!
Thank you #buildinpublic and @RevenueCat this is going to be a hard one to top!
Adversary presenting at Times Square Demo Day 🎉
Round 1 of Times Square Demo Day xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1yKAPwZoq…
Adversary won Catvertising at Shipaton 2026. Next stop: Times Square 🗽
I'm demoing it at @RevenueCat's #Shipaton Demo Day on Oct 22, open
10am–6pm ET. Drop by and tell me what you think.
I hope @letannacook won’t be too upset with me 🙃
This has gone in a very different direction than intended. Sorry @letannacook
@_chuckyc hope you like *my* Adversary app apps.apple.com/us/app/advers…
Had a blast at the Shippies!
Thank you @RevenueCat for an out of this world event! 🔥
Congratulations to all the winners 🎉
🐱 Catvertising winner: Adversary by @nbpapps|
What if avoiding an ad was the game? Adversary hides a Danger card in a memory game, so the ad becomes part of the board, with a one-time unlock for players who'd rather go ad-free.
Niv Ben-Porath 👨🏻💻🏡 🇮🇱 retweeted
🚨 Going out of business sale 🚨
iOS dev course sales plummeted due to AI. It costs a lot of money to host my courses online and with sales at basically $0, I've cancelled that hosting.
This closes down the site which unfortunately removes access to the courses.
I want you to have the courses you purchased forever, so I've added the ability to download my course videos so they are yours.
I've put my recent course on sale at a large discount so you can get it before it's gone and I've made old courses available for free if you want to grab those too.
The school will be online until November 24th so you have a few weeks to download these videos at seanallen.teachable.com
Thanks for learning with me and supporting my work over the years. I appreciate it.
Adversary moved to November 3rd!
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