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> developers need to ship iOS 26 apps without AI support. oh noes! the tragedy! the horror! /s But in all seriousness, if you are trying to say "buy my book",
by codingdave 1y ago
> developers need to ship iOS 26 apps without AI support.
oh noes! the tragedy! the horror! /s
But in all seriousness, if you are trying to say "buy my book", just say it. This post is clearly marketing for your gumroad content. Self-promotion is allowed on HN, once in a while, within reason. Your posting history shows you aren't really falling within that "once in a while" guideline. But even if you were... if you are going to self-promote, step up and do it. The only thing more annoying than someone who does nothing but self-promote is when they do so without transparency.
- rileygersh 1y agoYou're right about the transparency. I am selling training data for iOS 26 - $19.99 for the bundle. The post demonstrates a real problem (LLMs don't know iOS 26 exists) and offers a solution I created. The urgency is genuine - iOS 26 releases September 15 and developers are finding their AI tools useless for Foundation Models work. Some dev somewhere is praying they don't have to work through Labor Day weekend debugging Foundation Models without AI help. We're all now used to AI assistance - losing it for new frameworks hurts. Regarding posting frequency - I posted about this in July when I first created it, now again 6 weeks later because the landscape paradoxically hasn't changed: Claude 4.1 and GPT-5 both released post-WWDC yet still don't know iOS 26. The value proposition is straightforward: Aggregating and structuring iOS 26 documentation saves developers countless hours of searching and piecing together fragments. At $19.99, it's less than 15 minutes of developer time. I appreciate the direct feedback. The post could have been more upfront about the commercial aspect while still demonstrating the technical problem.