day 103 building in public

a seemingly controversial take these days: flutter is so underrated.

from me totally ignoring Android for 100 dev days, within a few hours, Chaos is blazing fast and already (mostly) working.

curious if anyone else is using it?

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day 100 building in public.

started with a goal to clear my cal of messy reminders. a few months later, Chaos has hit PMF for me.

thanks to everyone who has tried it and shared feedback so far. now to hit PMF for everyone.

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day 99 building in public

as promised, improved a key blocker to me using my app - poor deadline management.

also added a celebration animation because why not 🤷

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day 92 building in public.

had some people affected by a race condition bug which led to Chaos sending out the same reminder just a slightly unhelpful number of times. huge thanks to Ed for spotting it first!

testing out the fix...

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day 89 building in public.

first sale of Chaos Pro! SUPER pumped to have reached this milestone.

particularly as users signing up during these first two weeks already get 5x higher limits than the normal free tier.

still lots of work to get it to PMF. let's go!

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day 80 building in public. it's out of beta!

as a thank you for being one of the first, all new users over the next two weeks will receive Founder Tier, with 5x higher usage limits.

iOS: apps.apple.com/gb/app/chaos...
Android (waitlist): downloadchaos.com

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day 56 building in public.

sneak peak at the public release!

taking the feedback from the alpha, and trying to answer the question "what should a personal assistant tool feel like if I truly strip away all assumptions?", this is where I landed.

signup link below 👇

Day 39 building in public.

For me, the tile grid homescreen has always been a foundation.

Based on feedback, building a new approach to how users engage, so they can get value by opening the app (not just from notifications and widgets).

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Day 31 building in public.

How do you demonstrate that AI is thinking? This is what I’ve got so far, but feedback says it’s not intuitive enough yet.

That’s what I’ll be thinking on today. Any thoughts very welcome 🙏

Day 28 building in public.

Shipped my first update!

Nothing quite like the feeling of getting feedback from real people and then fixing their issues.

If you’re on the alpha, send feedback via the idea icon. I’d love to hear your take 👀

Day 26 building in public.

It's here! The side-project I've been working on, Chaos, is in alpha.

In my first post, I described the "chaos" trying to remember everything, so it only made sense to name it the same ;)

Want to try it now? Link in this thread 👇

What it does... 🧵

Day 17 building in public.

Illustrations are the new icons. Personalised flows are the new layouts. With Apple announcing on-device LLM access, I believe we're on the precipice of a whole new approach to app design.

Orig post: bsky.app/profile/maxe...

Day 11 building in public.

Excited to share a first look! Would love any feedback you have.

What this is:
✅ A good representation of the info architecture I envision (tree-like hierarchy).
✅ A sense of what content I envision users adding.

🧵...

Day 8 building in public.

Should Snapchat be your camera? The photographer in me screams heresy, but it's quicker to take a Snap than it is to open the camera app 🤯

It's why Snapchat is the default for many of its users. For my product to be the go-to for brain dumping, it's got to be that fast.

Day 6 of building in public.

Yesterday, OpenAI dropped the price of o3 by 80%. The day before, Apple announced free on-device model access.

The trend is clear, but what will model price drops unlock?

From the start, I’ve designed without model costs in mind. Here’s why:

Day 1. Here we go.

I’m pretty organised, but this calendar chaos is what it takes to run my life.

We haven't solved this. Just look at the graveyard of reminder apps.

My hunch is AI can unlock a personal life tool that works. Follow my build journey here and let's find out.

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