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by joshuakcockrell 20d ago
I agree with this. I had a production Play Store submission approved within 4 hours last week. It feels so random.
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by joshuakcockrell 1mo ago
It’s also about friction. No one wants to troubleshoot a card decline by logging into their mobile browser bank account in checkout at the grocery store.
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by joshuakcockrell 1mo ago
This is like saying, “teens shouldn’t learn how to make their own game engine because no one is hiring for that.” You’re missing the point. Understanding how Unity works fundamentally makes you a better Unity dev.
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by joshuakcockrell 2mo ago
Ah yes, the glory days when you had to sift through 200+ lines of NSLayoutConstraint just to fix a simple layout bug.
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by joshuakcockrell 2mo ago
Complaining about needing special code to support iOS 15 definitely weakened the argument.
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by joshuakcockrell 3mo ago
I’m working on Envelope. https://envelopebudgeting.com It’s a budgeting app that comes with a built in checking account and debit cards. Because your budget can actually decline card transactions it’s a very effective system for
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by joshuakcockrell 3mo ago
They have the same movement as their equivalent chess pieces.
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by joshuakcockrell 4mo ago
Why not? Just because the screen is so small? I’m sure the right mount could hold this on your dashboard without issue.
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by joshuakcockrell 4mo ago
To save others the click: the article is just saying minimalism.com is for sale.
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by joshuakcockrell 4mo ago
Existing discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48554215
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by joshuakcockrell 5mo ago
I'm working on Envelope. It's a budgeting app that comes with a checking account built in. https://envelopebudgeting.com Because the checking account is built in, you can assign real money to digital envelopes for bill
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by joshuakcockrell 6mo ago
I'm building Envelope, which is a checking account with built-in budgeting: https://envelopebudgeting.com It's like if Mint, YNAB, or Copilot was built into a bank account. The goal is to help people budget, spend, and
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by joshuakcockrell 6mo ago
Someone needs to solve barbecue. The entire industry is based on feel and experience. Why can't a beginner replicate Franklin's brisket by following a recipe online? It's probably because the main measuring instrument (a prob
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by joshuakcockrell 7mo ago
Cofounder at Envelope here. Yes, a well polished banking app is much easier to use for many tasks - Push notifications within seconds of swiping your card - Frictionless to check your balance/budget/cards with bio auth - Mobile ch
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by joshuakcockrell 7mo ago
Envelope https://envelopebudgeting.com It's a budgeting app I'm building for iOS and Android. It's an alternative to YNAB, Goodbudget, or Monarch, but the checking account and debit cards are built-in, so it avoid
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by joshuakcockrell 7mo ago
> Maybe there are some cool AI-centric games that I’m overlooking? The enemy locomotion in Arc Raiders was almost entirely created with reinforcement learning. It’s a very impressive modern example (the game has been out for less than 6
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by joshuakcockrell 8mo ago
Lately I’ve been interested in how budgeting apps model cash flow over time. A lot of tools are either expense trackers or monthly budgets that assume clean month boundaries, which breaks down quickly if you’re paid biweekly or irregularly.
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by joshuakcockrell 9mo ago
https://joshcockrell.com
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by joshuakcockrell 9mo ago
I’m building a budgeting app called Envelope, it’s like the envelope budgeting concept but has the checking account built in. https://envelopebudgeting.com
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by joshuakcockrell 11mo ago
I'm building Envelope — a banking product purpose-built for envelope-style budgeting. Most “budgeting banks” (Ally Buckets, Wells Fargo Budget Watch, etc.) bolt budgeting on after the fact. Envelope was designed from day one as an inte
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by joshuakcockrell 1y ago
I’m currently 4 years in to doing everything possible to build the best budgeting app https://envelopebudgeting.com This week I’ve been working on predicting upcoming paychecks with Nodejs so we can automatically decide how much
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by joshuakcockrell 2y ago
A budgeting app that comes with a built-in checking account https://envelopebudgeting.com/ Currently trying to convert the SwiftUI app to Compose using Skip.
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by joshuakcockrell 2y ago
Have you scrolled through the Switch store? The UI freezes for seconds at a time while network requests lock up the main thread.
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by joshuakcockrell 2y ago
I worked on the Twitter iOS app. Can confirm my kid isn’t allowed a phone until they’re a teen. Once they get one, I’ll be spending hours figuring out how to MDM brick the thing so they can’t get anywhere near social media. Having said that
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by joshuakcockrell 2y ago
This is my biggest issue with Prime Video. You never know what's included and what costs extra.
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by joshuakcockrell 2y ago
I bought a used Apple Watch for sleep tracking for $230. It took a few days to get used to sleeping with a watch on but I have a 1.5 yr old daughter and it’s been a game changer to quantify how much I’m waking up for her and how my nightly
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by joshuakcockrell 2y ago
JavaScript needs a Python 2->3 moment, but like 100x the damage
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by joshuakcockrell 2y ago
> Sure there's more money in the Western app ecosystem for iOS apps, but that doesn't mean your app should inherently cater for iOS first That's exactly what it means. When I was at Twitter, the Android app generated 1&#x2
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by joshuakcockrell 3y ago
What’s wrong with making cosmetic changes solely to improve low self esteem?
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by joshuakcockrell 3y ago
I just already had a graphql backend, which uses the gql schema to codegen the networking layer. Probably not much different from an open-api schema + codegen, I just had it set up so it was an easy choice for me shrug

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