https://apps.apple.com/us/app/skyscraper-for-bluesky/id67541...

Been a side project for a few months, as I wasn't enjoying the official client, and wanted something that fit my particular tastes (scroll position permanence, greater emphasis on hashtags, support for Shortcuts, and a more iOS-native look and feel).

Launched 3 weeks today, and already nearing 100 subscribers (nearly all annual, but month-to-month also available). Been very fun seeing users start using the app each and every day!

I've been working in the mobile space since 2009, though primarily as a designer and then product manager. I work in kinda a hybrid engineering/PM job now, and have never been a particularly strong programmer. I definitely wouldn't have thought I could make something with that polish, let alone in 3 months.

That code base is ~98% Claude code.

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I've been hanging around Bluesky for the past year, but the standard experience wasn't doing it for me. I wanted something native on my iPhone, with a Liquid Glass design.

So this is my initial release. On top of the standard Bluesky experience you would expect of a client, I also have the following features I'm excited about:

• Post Drafts — Save ideas for later • Account Backup — Export and archive your data • OAuth Support - Login without creating an app password • Thread Archival - Share popular threads with friends off Bluesky • Safari Extension — Open bsky.social links directly in Skyscraper • Trending Hashtags — See what's buzzing right now • Unified Timeline — See replies in your following feed • Mute Reposts — Silence repost-happy users without unfollowing • Post Translation — Read posts in any language

Would be appreciative of any feedback if you are a Bluesky user. As a launch promo/thank you, I'm offering 50% off for the first year ($9.99 USD), for subscription membership that includes multiple account support, some app theme customization, account archival, and more. This URL should allow you to subscribe via the App Store on your device: https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=6754198379&c...

The app is going live globally right now, so if not available in your region, it should be within the next few hours. There's a ton to use for free, so give it a try and if you like it, feel free to use that promo code!

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- Skyscraper, an iOS native app for Bluesky with focus on Liquid Glass UI. Launching hopefully in a ~week, and TestFlight available at https://testflight.apple.com/join/RRvk14ks

Then also working on a website/web tool that does the following: - A keyword/term notification service that observes the Bluesky Jetstream for usages of the term and sends email alerts.

- Provides an HTML/JSON backup archive of any Bluesky account. Quick way to archive popular accounts, politicians, public figures, etc.

- Trending Hashtag lists, to see what is trending the last hour, day, week, and month.

The web services all are available at: https://api.getskyscraper.com/tools/

It seems much more likely that the driver here was to produce a UI that was resource intensive and hard to replicate unless you control the processors that go into your devices as well as the entire graphics processing stack that sits above that as well. It seems created to flaunt the concept of "go ahead and try to copy this" to Google and Microsoft.

Another constraint of a technical book that I didn't see mentioned here was that time almost has to be very limited during the writing process. I worked on a couple mobile development/design books, and an iOS 18 programming and design guide is worthless after Apple announced Liquid Glass last summer. At 2+ years into the project and seemingly only 1/3rd complete, the publisher really needs to be sure the content will still be relevant after released.

Primary goal with the project was to create a Bluesky client that I wanted to to use. While the standard Bluesky app is fine, I wanted something more reminiscent of Tweetie, Tweetbot, Twitteriffic, etc. Something that feels at home on the iPhone. With the transition to Liquid Glass, felt like a good time to practice and get to experience the new UI with a new project.

Still in what I call "alpha", but pretty feature rich. Support push notifications, lots of discovery/feed following features, search tools, moderation setting management, post translation, and much more.

If you use Bluesky and are an iOS user, there's still space on my TestFlight and would appreciate any feedback or comments!

Been posting some screenshots to my feed, if you want to see what it currently looks like: https://bsky.app/profile/cameronbanga.com

Have about 100 spots left on my current TestFlight if anyone is interested: https://testflight.apple.com/join/RRvk14ks

Wanted to share a new iOS app released today called Freezy Transcribe. It uses iOS 26's new Apple Intelligence frameworks to transcribe MP3s, videos, and microphone recordings. An in-app podcast lookup can transcribe the latest episode of your favorite podcast. You can also connect to a Broadcastify account and transcribe first-responder audio feeds. Would appreciate any feedback!

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At first I thought Yoink was making a new AI tool, not that this was a brand new thing.

https://www.reddit.com/r/androidafterlife/comments/zpya9p/i_...

Just released a new iOS app called Compress-san. It's an easy-to-use utility to compress videos taken on iPhone, and then generate SRT files with transcriptions of any spoken word inside of the clip.

Had a friend who was creating work instructions and using videos to insert clips into the work instructions. This app allowed him to generate on-device subtitle SRT files to pass along into another LLM for creation of the general work instructions. He can then use the compressed video to create small video clips of key processes and throw on a shared drive.

Some additional nice features include batch processing of up to 10 videos at once, iPad UI support, local on-device translation of SRT files into 23 languages, and native support of the UI for Spanish and Japanese languages.

Welcome to any feedback or additional ideas.

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