Indie. Apple Design Award Winner. Designing & Developing Apps for Platforms. Made Lumy ( Keynote ‘20), Calzy (ADA ‘18), Currenzy (AppStore Best of 2015 🇨🇳)
When I started this journey 5 years back, I had no contacts, zero experience selling software, no college degree on programming & UI/UX designing. The only assets I had was - an understandable family & a friend, a MacBook Pro, an iPhone & some passion to do apps. 1/3
Today people across 150+ countries use my apps and I just received an Apple Design Award 🥇. Thanks to Apple’s
@AppStore
and huge shout out to Apple community for being passionate, inspiring and helpful. Still can’t believe it happened 🤩 2/3
New version of Lumy is now available
@AppStore
with update for iOS 17 & watchOS 10 🚀 🎉
iOS 17
- Added support for Interactive Widget - Schedule notifications for sun events directly from the home screen 🌅
- Added support for Standby Mode support.
watchOS 10 ⌚️
- A fresh app
Calzy 3.8 is now available on the AppStore 🚀
It introduces two interactive widgets - Calculator & History/Bookmarks Widget 🔢
Also, the calculator widget can be customized with 3 new themes and keyboard styles 🎨✍️
Ever since I received the Apple Design Award, many have asked: “Without any college degree in programming or designing, How you went on to make your first app?” This blog post is myself trying to answer that 👉
#iOS
Excited to share the preview of fully independent Lumy for Watch. Completely written on SwiftUI. It shows golden hour info for diff location along with weather info, so u can plan ur photographic trip ahead. Will post the feature videos and public beta link below...
Currenzy is now available on the
@appstore
🎉
Along with the all-new design, It comes with the Safari extension that lets you convert prices in web pages. It also enables you to convert currencies in other apps like mail, notes, etc., 😊
1/3
After months of hesitation, overcame my inhibitions to deliver my first ever talk. Shd thank
@ishanvaish
, it all started from him pushing me to come out of my shell &
@giridharvc7
who kept persuading me for long to deliver this talk. Day well spent
@swiftindiagroup
Thx everyone🙏
Calzy 3.7 is now available on the AppStore 🎉
Stay on top of your calculation while moving across different apps with Dynamic Island and Live Activity support 😊
@atpganesh
@rajinikanth
என்ன மச்சி.. போராளிகள் கூட சவகாகமா? 😂
நேத்து சொன்ன இந்த ஒரு statement போதும். குடும்ப மொத்தமும் ஓட்டு போட ரெடியாயிட்டானுங்க 👉
‘ஏற்கெனவே தண்ணி இல்ல, விவசாயம் இல்ல. இப்போ போராட்டங்கள் தேவையில்லாம அதிகமானா தொழில் வளர்ச்சியும் பாதிக்கப்படும், இளைஞர்களுக்கு வேலை இருக்காது’
So happy 🎉 to see Calzy and Currenzy featured on the US 🇺🇸 AppStore under Utility, Apple Watch, and Travel - Essential App! Thanks a lot,
@AppStore
🙌 team!
Visited the beautiful Hong Kong 🇭🇰Apple Store and finally bought the new 12.9 inch iPad Pro 😍 I plan to switch my photographic workflow to iPad Pro completely.
Lumy for Apple TV is now available on the
@AppStore
😍🥳🚀 Experimented with an idea to use Apple TV beyond watching TV or playing games. Now, Mount Sun and Moon information as an art-like photo frame 🖼
Thanks to everyone who took time out of your life to beta test these apps and gave feedback 🙏
Calzy 3.5 - Releasing tomorrow 🎉
Lumy 4.6 - Hoping for tomorrow 🤞
Stacks 4.0 - Very Very Soon 🔜
Wow 🤩 Calzy is featured as one of the “13 Great apps for iOS 13”. Both Lumy & Calzy is featured in “Great on watchOS 6” and “See It in Dark Mode” section of US
@AppStore
🍾 🎉
FWIW, Just found that this feature on Today’s tab of US AppStore let to more downloads than the day Calzy got apple design award 😳
P.S., The award was covered on most tech sites where as this feature was just on the US AppStore.
#ios
#app
#business
Lumy is ranked
#2
in UK AppStore🤩 And I didn’t know bundles also will be ranked.
For all these years, I hesitated to make this three-app bundle (Since they are unrelated). I just created one a few months back as an experiment. Seeing a big uptrend with this bundle 😍
I feel journey of creating “something” will always be filled with happiness, frustration, over confidence, self doubt, learning, unlearning. Mixed of everything. If u love the destination, u will ignore the hardship of the journey. Don’t afraid also don’t fantasise
#code
#design
2020 was good. Spent more time with my family & less time on social media. SwiftUI helped me drop all my preconceived ideas about app making and see things with an open mind & fresh eyes, just like a beginner. May the year 2021 bring much more fresh mindset.
#HappyNew2021
🥳
Lumy 4.5 is now available on the
@AppStore
🥳
It’s the most significant update yet: It brings in design changes, moon information, customizable widgets, new watch complications, repeat notification, support for Siri Shortcut, and a lot more 🎉
#SwiftUI
Going to WWDC for the first time this year. With no leaks & rumours floating around, I’m very much excited to get blown away by the keynote.
Hope
@markgurman
doesn’t get any “scoop” in the meantime 😂
#WWDC18
#iOS12
Currenzy is now available on the
@appstore
🎉
Along with the all-new design, It comes with the Safari extension that lets you convert prices in web pages. It also enables you to convert currencies in other apps like mail, notes, etc., 😊
1/3
Localizing my apps was one of the best decisions I've made. Downloads from Europe and Asia Pacific regions have been almost on par with the US for the past few months.
#Lumy
#Calzy
#Currenzy
Photoshop coming to iPad is excellent news 👏 Should try moving my photographic workflow entirely to the iPad and see how far things have changed in the iPad landscape.
For everyone trying out the new Apple TV…
I like to introduce Lumy for Apple TV, available on the
@AppStore
😊 It lets you showcase Sun and Moon information as a beautiful photo frame 🖼
I love my new Apple TV 4K! It is the perfect way to bring the best and easiest-to-use video and audio to the biggest screen in my home. It also works seamlessly with my other Apple products. It's available today!
Beyond the tech circle, most ppl I know hv no idea that they can configure the lock screen widget.
What’s the better way to educate them?
A better description, better SF symbol, or educate them with the screen when they open the app with the unconfigured widget?
True. SwiftUI changed things better & easier😍 The single view I designed for watch complication is used for iOS widgets and tvOS with no extra work. It is so much easier to iterate & use it across all the apple platforms. Happy I jumped earlier and Rewrote Lumy with SwiftUI ❤️
@CraigGrannell
I believe, Lumy has beautiful widgets for both iPhone and iPad that can be customised to everyone needs. Website has a press kit with more information 😊
Until WWDC week gets over, no matter how excited you are about a new feature, don’t jump in to try them in your app.
I got so excited with the SwiftUI Canvas on day one and did nothing but rewriting these Lumy views with Canvas since then. Yet to watch other sessions
#WWDC21
True. SwiftUI changed things better & easier😍 The single view I designed for watch complication is used for iOS widgets and tvOS with no extra work. It is so much easier to iterate & use it across all the apple platforms. Happy I jumped earlier and Rewrote Lumy with SwiftUI ❤️
With XCTestCase,
@sketch
Data sets, and
@FastlaneTools
‘Deliver’ - Able to process 700+ screenshots (4 devices, 8 languages, 2 themes) and submitted Currenzy to
@AppStore
🥳
Wondering whether Apple would carry this new flat hardware design style to their next year’s iPhone or its just exclusive to the new iPad Pro to accommodate the magnetic connector for Apple Pencil 🤔
#AppleEvent
Calzy 3.8 is now available on the AppStore 🚀
It introduces two interactive widgets - Calculator & History/Bookmarks Widget 🔢
Also, the calculator widget can be customized with 3 new themes and keyboard styles 🎨✍️
Lumy is just few spots below Streaks and Things 😍 Ranked
#20
at the US AppStore Overall Paid Category 🤩
Never thought this is possible for such a niche app 🎉🎊