u/Quiet-Barnacle2062

Hi I recently just realized my app is only available to users on ios 26.5 and up, could this be a major factor in why my app doesn't have as many downloads?

Looking for a small group of fellow indie app developers who want to exchange honest feedback and App Store reviews.

We all know how difficult it is to get initial reviews without a huge marketing budget, so I thought it’d be cool if we could help each other out.

Here’s how I’d like to keep it as genuine as possible:

• We only share the app name and a keyword to search (no direct App Store links).
• Download the app naturally through App Store search.
• Spend some time using it (ideally over a day if possible).
• If you genuinely enjoy it, leave an honest review on the App Store.
• If you find bugs or have suggestions instead, send those privately through Reddit DM rather than leaving a negative review, we’re all here to improve.

The goal isn’t to spam reviews. It’s to help other indie developers get real users, useful feedback, and honest ratings while discovering cool apps we otherwise wouldn’t have found.

If you’re interested, leave a comment below and I’ll DM you. Feel free to connect with other developers in the comments too.

I'm 16 and I haven't tried to work through a problem on my own in probably months (yeah its pretty bad). Every time something comes up I'm reaching for chatgpt before my brain even attempted to solve the problem.

My teacher mentioned something called cognitive surrender this year. The idea that when a tool does something for you long enough, you lose the ability to do it yourself. Google maps stopped mental navigation and calculators stopped mental math for most people. And I started noticing it in myself, my writing was getting worse when I had to write alone.

I'm not anti AI, I use it daily. But I think there's a difference between using AI as a tool and just allowing it to replace your ability to think.

Because of this I built an app called "Brain Training - Rusty" . The idea is that if AI is taking over thinking we used to do ourselves, we should be practicing those skills so they don't decrease. Mental math, articulation, critical thinking.

Free to download. I'm a broke 16 year old so there's no catch, just the features that cost me money to run are gated.

Would genuinely love feedback from people who think about this stuff.

Long story short just launched my Saas and looking for new users, it is a easy to use crm with ai features that make it even easier to use, you talk to the ai about what you did and it notes down everything saving the right info to the right contacts and making new contacts. There is an action engine with suggested actions for the day to keep your business running and follow up engine to see who you haven’t followed up with and follow up with them with the click of a button. There’s tons more features and a lot more coming soon.

You don’t have to sign up if you don’t want to but I think this can help a lot of people because I built it for disorganized people like me. The link is https://usepapercrm.com

PS. It might say built for realtors but by default it is on normal mode and if you are a realtor you can turn on realtor mode in the settings

Thanks for taking the time to read this and sorry if I wasted it.

I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately.

Most CRMs are supposed to help you manage relationships, but in practice they often become another task on the list.

Manual updates, endless forms, pipeline maintenance, remembering where every lead stands, it can feel like the system creates more admin instead of reducing it.

Especially in industries like real estate or sales, where everything moves quickly and relationships matter more than rigid workflows.

It makes me wonder if the CRM model is backwards.

Instead of forcing people to adapt to software, shouldn’t the software adapt to how people naturally work?

For example, if you jot down a quick note like:

“Met John today, wants a apartment in Jersey City”

why shouldn’t the system automatically create the contact, save preferences, schedule a follow-up, and update the pipeline?

That feels far more useful than filling out forms manually.

I’m building something around this idea because I think CRM should feel more like an intelligent assistant than a database.

If anyone here has strong opinions on what current CRMs get wrong, or what would actually make one useful, I’d genuinely love your input.

And if you’d ever want to test an early version, feel free to DM me. If not, totally fine, I’m mainly here to learn from people who deal with this every day.