Chris Raroque
Solo app developer 📱👨💻
Taking you behind the scenes of building a productivity apps (Ellie 🐹 and Luna 🐶)
I built an app and nobody used it
How I Built a Full App in ONE Week Using AI (My Actual Workflow + Advice)
I Accidentally Built Another App (And Learned A Lot)
My App Design Process: What Took Me 5 Years to Learn in 10 Minutes
Why I'm Building App Features Nobody Wants (Yet 👀)
This 'Simple' Feature Almost Broke My App (1 Month Later...)
I Turned My 13-Hour Road Trip Into a Coding Sprint (& Actually Shipped)
I built 3 apps - Here’s how I pick winning ideas
I launched a budgeting app 3 months ago - quick update
Speed coding a Notion integration for my productivity app (mini weekend hackathon w/ friends 👨💻)
How I improved my app's performance 10x (lessons learned and code walkthrough)
My Budgeting App Got Its First Paying User 🥳 1 Month Update (Improving App Retention / New Features)
My app analytics process (real numbers 👀+ quick tutorial)
Finally launching my new budgeting app! (pricing, getting rejected 3 times, growth plans)
500 users tested my new app: Lessons learned & changes I'm making
Launching the beta of my new budgeting app (and how I structure beta tests)
My approach to experimental features (and why they don't make it into the product)
Speed coding a new feature for my app (with my friend) - Mini Hackathon + learning AWS S3
My rapid app iteration process (also budgeting apps are hard) | Building Luna ep.4
Step by step of creating a new feature for my productivity app (a floating timer) - Ellie ep. 9
The tech stack I'm using to build my new budgeting app | Building Luna ep.3
How I keep my app stable - Day in the life of a software developer (Building Ellie ep.6)
Building a new app - what I got done in the first 2 weeks (Building Luna ep.2)
I'm building a budgeting app (and naming it after my dog)
Building an Outlook calendar integration for my app (spoiler: it was hard) | Building Ellie ep. 5
Building and launching an iOS widget for my productivity app (beta launch vlog!)
Building a Duolingo style iOS widget for my productivity app
Building a todo/calendar iOS widget for my app (coding day in the life)
Day in the life of a software developer (realistic) - meetings, gym, working on my side project
The tech stack I used to build my productivity app (Firebase, React and Swift)