Shipping an app in one month (With a full time job.)
This past weekend I launched my latest indie iOS app - Capit. It is a social media caption generator that writes creative captions directly from your images or video - no prompting required. My first commit to the project was on November 8th.
The idea was simple - my wife runs a small retail business and gets good traction on social media...but to maintain that traction, you need a constant feed of new content. And when you have been in business for two years, you just kind of feel like you are repeating yourself over and over. So once OpenAI announced the release of the GPT4-Vision model, I knew I could throw something together to help her out. She runs the account entirely on her iPhone, so that is the platform I focused on first (Also doesn't hurt that I am an iOS developer by trade 😄)
I chose my tech stack to try and compliment my skills - I'm primarily a mobile developer, focused on Swift, with only light backend experience. I chose firebase as an all-in-one solution, using Auth to get setup quickly with user accounts, Firestore for storing user data, and Cloud Functions to quickly put together a simple API. I used RevenueCat as my subscription management tool so that I have nice charts and graphs, and a simple tool for testing paywall designs (The current paywall was built with their new Paywalls feature.) ChatGPT was also invaluable for giving me the basis for my node functions, saving a ton of time since I don't write JS on a regular basis.
To find time to build in the day, I took advantage of the fact that I'm a morning person. I would get up at 5am to have at least an hour or so of coding time every day, and a few hours on the weekends. Just a small bit of progress every day kept the momentum going. And now I've reached the launch and already have my first two subscribers!
If you want to check out the app, it can be found here: https://capit.app
Also, I am live on product hunt today if you'd like to show some support, all feedback is greatly appreciated! https://www.producthunt.com/posts/capit
Nice app, do you have any ideas for the future roadmap already?
Thanks! Yeah, already in the works is a "profile" system so that you can save default profiles for different social accounts with specific settings (Tone, length, account description), and then filter your history by profile. In addition, the caption editor is coming as well with some cool features (Hashtag groupings, default footers, etc), so that you don't have to leave the app to adjust your captions. Then after those, text based caption generation.
Well done, Jason! You have achieved something remarkable in such a small period of time.
It must have taken a great deal of dedication and hard work to see your project come to fruition.
Your accomplishment serves to inspire others like myself to pursue their own goals and I'm certain your app will be a great success!
Its a great simple, neat & useful.
It's a good app for social media captions. I use this and outclass experienced.