Indie dev sharing the journey. Creator of tinyharvest.app 🌱 Exploring React Native, AI & game dev
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5 days into the Tiny Hospital open beta 🏥
58 of you joined already, and we've already ironed out a TON of bugs.
Thank you! There's still room on TestFlight 👇
After Tiny Harvest, we made a second game.
Tiny Hospital is a cozy hospital sim for iPhone. Nobody dies, nobody goes broke, and the worst disease is a personal raincloud.
The open beta starts today. Come cure some patients 🩹
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I turned my internal AI art tool into a real SaaS that people can pay for 💸
Cut it down to one loop, added PayPal subscriptions with the @paypaldev AI Toolkit and webhooks, tested in the sandbox, then went live.
Full tutorial + source code 👇
piped.video/watch?v=qCHkXa1A…
#PayPal #PayPalDeveloper #coding
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The virtual @paypaldev AI Hackathon is open until Nov 12 with $60k+ in prizes 🏆
Register: bit.ly/paypalaihackathon-sim…
#payment #paymentgateway #acceptpayments #softwareengineer
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5 days into the Tiny Hospital open beta 🏥
58 of you joined already, and we've already ironed out a TON of bugs.
Thank you! There's still room on TestFlight 👇
After Tiny Harvest, we made a second game.
Tiny Hospital is a cozy hospital sim for iPhone. Nobody dies, nobody goes broke, and the worst disease is a personal raincloud.
The open beta starts today. Come cure some patients 🩹
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Join the beta (free, iPhone):
testflight.apple.com/join/6J…
Feedback and bugs go in our Discord:
tinyindie.de/discord
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Simon Grimm retweeted
After Tiny Harvest, we made a second game.
Tiny Hospital is a cozy hospital sim for iPhone. Nobody dies, nobody goes broke, and the worst disease is a personal raincloud.
The open beta starts today. Come cure some patients 🩹
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After Tiny Harvest, we made a second game.
Tiny Hospital is a cozy hospital sim for iPhone. Nobody dies, nobody goes broke, and the worst disease is a personal raincloud.
The open beta starts today. Come cure some patients 🩹
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Join the beta on TestFlight (free):
testflight.apple.com/join/6J…
Bugs, ideas and feedback go in our Discord:
tinyindie.de/discord
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Every Tiny Harvest update can break the game for 1,000 players.
The fix often takes 2 minutes. Getting it onto their phones through App Store review takes days.
So here's my whole release pipeline, and when I skip the store with an OTA update 👇
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The one question I ask before every release:
"Did the native app change?"
Yes → new build, TestFlight, store review
No → an OTA update might be enough
Full video, sponsored by @codemagicio:
piped.video/mTPboJJwf-M
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One day Google blocked the payouts for our game.
The cause: a payments profile mismatch from a setup ~10 years ago. Support's answer: create a new developer account and transfer the live app to it.
Sounded terrifying. Reality: a few keys to update, zero downtime, payouts released.
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The other three things that almost killed the game: piped.video/6aBvhmaLqug
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Instant Cloud, the backend our game runs on, is shutting down. I got the email the moment our plane landed after summer vacation.
Deadline: about 3 weeks. Thousands of active players. Downtime wasn't an option.
How we moved to self-hosting, and what it costs now 🧵
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4/ The cost: our backend used to be about $25 a month. Self-hosted on AWS it's around $500 (a big Aurora instance plus two EC2 servers).
It runs a bit better than before. That's the price of owning your backend.
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5/ Lesson: keep database calls behind your own layer, so a provider can be swapped. I didn't, and it might not have saved me, but it would have given me options.
Full story in this video: piped.video/6aBvhmaLqug
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Our game's Sentry had 324 unresolved issues. So many that real regressions were invisible.
One session with Claude and the Sentry MCP: 324 → 48.
How we sorted them 👇
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3/ The other half: Seer autofix. Connected to GitHub, it reads the issue together with our logs and spans, drafts a fix and opens a PR.
So sometimes an issue arrives with the fix already waiting for review.
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I show both in this video. Sentry sponsored it, and I use it every day in Tiny Harvest: piped.video/6aBvhmaLqug
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