I also have Halo for MacOS, but I need to dust it off to see what's up. Been a while since I looked at it.

Fixing bugs already lol... oh boy

I did not replace the concept of keys with accounts. This is the only thing I left that indicates it's not a normal account flow. I personally find this to be a unique and nice differentiator from traditional social media that makes you plug in emails and such. From earlier testing I did not see much confusion about keys, but who knows, maybe with a greater sample it becomes an issue. I'm open to changing if need be.

A quick heads up on Halo: The goal is / was to create a normie friendly client. You won't find any mentions of nostr, nsec, relays (if you do, I have failed). Also, there are no wallets and never will be. So if that's your thing, prob not for you, but I'd still appreciate some test feedback 🙏 View quoted note →

Halo public TestFlight:

Join the Halo: Better Social beta

Available on iOS

Expect bugs. I haven’t spent as much time on it as I’d like to. Appreciate your reports 🙏 I’ll be fixing a bunch of things soon too.

GM nostr ☕️

Made a simple app to take a photo of your food and it'll inform you regarding the glycemic load. Nothing special, but might be interesting. Cleaning up right now, want to make it nice.

Halo pending test flight approval ⏱️

My new flow to build apps is to start by generating a master prompt. I will pull up ChatGPT pro extended and explain the desired goal/ outcome. I tell it to plan for the most simple UX possible where the user doesn’t have to do anything. I’ll describe specific things I want if there are any and specific things I don’t want if there are any. Also tell it to spawn subagents. I make sure to tell it it’s a real app, production ready, not a mock, no placeholders. Full functionality. This creates a big prompt to feed to codex or Claude. I review the prompt, follow up with any feedback I might have. Sometimes it wants a web app and I might say I want a Mac app. Sometimes it wants a specified database type and I might say we don’t want that. Then I feed that prompt to codex and watch it build the thing - usually super fast with subagents. From there I test it, ask what’s next and do another round of sweeping changes, usually to simplify UX further. Sometimes it doesn’t finish the app and I’ll say build out the rest of it. For UI I’ll also use ChatGPT images 2.0 When I see something I really like I’ll say “what will {x} view look like?” Usually it does a decent job and I can cover all the views this way. A lot of times I’ll have to ask it to radically simplify the UI and UX. Codex absolutely sucks at design. I have to tell it to avoid text labels where an icon is obvious enough, avoid all caps titles, avoid excess verbiage. I’ll give it a design skill and it turns up an OK ui. Not amazing but ok. And after that I start refining the UI. Meanwhile I spawn an SEO strategy and ask it to design viral loops for sharing etc … refine. That’s it. That’s the flow.

I hated dealing with Apple app submission process so I automated it. Refining rough edges atm but it seems to be working. We about to build a gazillion apps!!

Making an app to automate the entire App Store Connect process.

I wish OpenAi created something similar to Claude design. Feels like OpenAI is always behind on design side of things, requires constant hacking.

Are there any tools that will handle the entire App Store process for you?

Michio Kaku: robots can’t plan, direct other people Bro, have you heard of agentic AI? 🤣 He’s so behind on these things.