Chris Raroque

@raroque • 18,255 subscribers

I build apps (solo dev) and document everything here and on youtube (100K+ subs) 🤠

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not your average calorie tracking app 😮‍💨

moonjar mascot 😮‍💨 100% code by the way (created with opus 5.5)

made an app for my assistant 👀 calling it Luna L1 being able to take my agent with me feels super different from having it on my computer even made a custom "lunagotchi" for it 🥹

adding a siri integration before ios 27 launches 👀 has anyone seen any other calorie tracking app implement it this well before?

making these beautiful screenshots/videos is actually kind of annoying (i chain 2-3 tools together sometimes) making a small app that connects to the simulator directly (floating button on the side) loaded with my presets 👀 should i publish this? (will polish design)

pro tip: you can ask claude code to use ascii art to prototype layouts for you 👀 here is me using it to find a good layout to display the caloric deficit/surplus to users had it prototype in ascii before actually building it

this video is gonna be insane 👀 (boris creator of claude code)

auto-summarize ✨ hopefully this makes room for some other stuff to fit on this page 👀

Amy paywall 👑 Added a little surprise when you scroll 👀

Adding "menu scanning" into Amy 👀 honestly have never seen a calorie tracking app do this before sometimes i just want to scan the menu because it has such a good description of the food (better than a photo)

this onboarding is going to hit different 👀 (all hand drawn in procreate by cecilia)

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2B+ tokens spent iterating on this landing page 😮‍💨

Mistake no. 4 / 10 I should have added caching and optimized my AI bill earlier 🤦‍♂️

I'm sorry but screenshot apps feel stuck in 2018 😮‍💨 so i made one that's actually agent-first (literally no buttons 👀) oh and it uses your existing claude + codex sub hello moonjar 🌙

i really should gatekeep this bc I’m worried it’ll get overused buuuuut these are the two tools im using to create (and animate) my app mascots 👀 genuinely surprised NOBODY is talking about midjourney anymore, so good for animations 😮‍💨

I'm surprised that NOBODY is talking about the anthropic agent sdk 👀 I spent a week building a custom agent using the framework and really think people are sleeping on how powerful it is went a bit more technical on this one but this stuff is so cool i thought it was worth it

YOU GUYS WIN Boop (my custom AI agent) is now OPEN SOURCE 🥳 I built this just for me but 700+ people commented on my last 3 videos asking me to open source it so here we are :) This is my first major open-source library so please forgive any rough edges or bad code 😅

Getting closer to release working on little details like offline mode 😮‍💨

I have never seen so much praise for an apps onboarding in my life 👀 Totally worth the extra 3 days and Cecilia absolutely hit a home run with the illustrations 🤌

A breakdown of how much it cost to launch my latest app 😮 Amy was the most expensive app ive built so far (youll see why) but thankfully we broke even already 👏

this was worth spending 3 days on 😮‍💨 onboarding flow for Amy

A few weeks ago I built a SUPER powerful custom agent this week I decided to scrap it 😮 I rebuilt it from the ground up with a completely different form factor (iMessage) / architecture and for fun I added a powerful memory system that costs me $50/day to run 🫠 here is everything i learned

let’s normalize bringing craft and surprise into app building ✨ one small detail like this might not matter, but combine 10+ of these into your app and users can tell 👀

I asked Boris Cherny what his favorite claude code feature was he said it’s remote control BUT not using “/remote-control” 👀 Learned something new!

Good design can be the difference between 2K views and 1M views 👀 Luck/algorithms do play a part, but this has happened 10+ times to me over the last few years 😮‍💨

I didnt think anyone would use this feature but 90% use it daily 😮‍💨 This is exactly why I LOVE talking to users

We NEED more financial transparency in the app building space especially when it comes to COSTS 🫠 Everyone talks about MRR and revenue but nobody talks about margins so here were mine last month 👀

i think fable 5 is coming back soon so wanted to make a quick video on my extensive 48 hours with it unlike other videos, ill show you what i ACTUALLY shipped with it in those 48 hours that make it worth paying nearly $1K per feature 👀 hope this helps for when its back

finally met Marc Lou 😮 vlog coming soon but little preview of the meetup he hosted in sf :)

i feel like i should gatekeep this but... i think consumers are about to start prioritizing apps that have good connectors into AI assistants mainly bc of the new siri update coming soon 👀 here is what i did this month to "future proof" my app to stay ahead

Noticing a surge in copycats recently (like ripping off my app UI 1:1) 😮‍💨 am i bothered? i mean it’s annoying for sure but I’m NEVER gonna stop posting or gatekeeping and here’s why 😤 this is for anyone scared to build in public bc of copycats