Hacker NewsSigning in to App Store Connect just to check downloads or MRR is a friction. I wanted a simpler way. Ideally, just to look at a widget on my iPhone. There are some apps, but the design and implementation made me think here's a gap that I can potentially fill it with a new polished product. So I've built this app.
It took me several months to start beta testing. But then I got feedback from users that they don't really want to share their App Store key credentials with a third-party app that uses a backend and collects data. So, I spent one more month pivoting to a private app by dropping a backend and storing credentials on a user's device in a keychain. So, now the app directly talks to Apple's API and there's no account registration. You add a team key - the app fetches data. App also uses background tasks to fetch most recent data so you don't need to open it every day to keep the data fresh. And as a final point - I added widgets to both home and lock screens.
Please let me know what you think. Not sure how big this opportunity with the current market is but I wanted this experiment to happen with a polished project.
P.S. If you don't have apps on App Store, I've made a preview data onboarding screen where you can play with dummy data. The charts are smooth, so hope you can take some inspiration as well :D
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