It also certainly helps to engage with other developers you find inspiring. In Pestle, these options show up as rows in the Settings section. Make it easy for your users to go straight from your app to Twitter, TikTok, Instagram, etc. Any recommendations for indie developers trying to grow their own audiences? That said, what did help was having a following of other like-minded developers. I found the crossover of people interested in Chirp to the people interested in my other work to be quite small. My large following comes from Chirp, my Twitter Apple Watch app. To be perfectly honest, I think it played little into the success of Pestle. How much of a role did your Twitter audience play in Pestle’s initial success? It's a slow process and with Pestle being my first iPhone app, I had some incredibly ugly prototypes early on. I start by creating a new iPhone artboard in Sketch, inserting some common UI like the home indicator, status bar, and navigation bar, and then iterating on the design until I'm happy with it. After verifying that it worked, I started working on the UI.
NYT MY RECIPES CODE
With Pestle, that was "Can I write code to pull recipes from websites?". I typically start purely in code, without any UI, simply to validate my idea. There's a bit of back and forth between code and Sketch. What’s your app design and development workflow like? I schedule tweets using TweetDeck and have an IFTTT integration set up to automatically share my Reddit posts to Twitter. In Australia, that is often around 3 a.m. Then, I use Later for Reddit to schedule a post on r/Apple that goes out when most people are active on the subreddit. I start by emailing 5-10 journalists who I know are likely to cover whatever I work on. With this time you should be emailing journalists, scheduling posts on Reddit with Later for Reddit, scheduling posts on ProductHunt, scheduling tweets, etc.
NYT MY RECIPES UPDATE
My first recommendation for anyone seeking help marketing an update or new app is to lock in a date at least two full weeks in advance. But after 4 years in this field, I've learned a few things. How did you market the app as an indie developer?įor me, marketing has always been a bit of a stab in the dark. Submit your app or reach out on Twitter 🐦 Having tried a few other recipe apps (more on that later), I decided to build Pestle to help guide me through more complex recipes and to give me a spot to store my changes to them. I had nowhere to store my changes to recipes.Recipe websites could be quite bloated with unrelated content.The prospect of being an adult unable to cook anything at all scared me, so I set out to "learn to cook". I quickly realized I was only capable of cooking dried pasta and heating up sauce from a jar. I was left in charge of more meals at home than ever before. Throughout 2020 as the world came to a standstill, it seemed my parents were the only ones able to travel, having perfectly timed Australia's interstate border closures. Outside of making apps I enjoy cooking (obviously) and more recently have been teaching myself guitar. When it comes to iOS, I'm entirely self-taught. I've been making apps since I was 16, and programming since I was 12/13. Available for iOS & iPadOS ( you tell us a little bit about yourself? Will Bishop ( Will, a 20-year-old developer from a city in South Australia called Adelaide. Whether you're a member of r/cookingforbeginners or an experienced home cook, Pestle is an essential tool in your culinary arsenal. Now that I've moved all of my recipes over to Pestle, I wish I had made the change sooner. Not only has Pestle been featured on the App Store, but it also made an appearance in this year's WWDC video:īefore getting in touch with Will, I kept all of my recipes in a Notion document.Īfter nearly 200 recipes, it was clear Notion was not the right tool for the job. Cook Together: with SharePlay in iOS 15+, Pestle enables you to cook with anybody from around the world.Meal Planning: helps you plan out your next 14-days by allowing you to assign recipes to each day.Pestle Households: allows you to easily share all of your recipes with your friends and family.Recipe Scanner: helps you to easily digitize physical recipes.
Import Recipes: import recipes from all of your favorite websites, including BBC Goodfood, NYT Cooking, Tasty, and thousands more.With Pestle, you can plan meals, save and edit recipes, discover new recipes, and easily share them with friends and family. Today, we're looking at Pestle by Will Bishop.
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