Chris Free

I made NextGP so I’d always have the #f1 schedule and standings on my Home Screen. There’s still so much I want to do, but it’s awesome to have the thing that I wanted out in the world.

My First Year at RevenueCat One year ago today, I joined RevenueCat as a Sales Engineer. After almost 17 years of running Chromatic – the agency I helped grow from 2 to 25+ people — I found myself in a completely different role...

Some thoughts and a highlight reel of my first year @revenuecat.com

www.optimistic-closures.com/my-first-yea...

All good! Internet friends are fine but friends in real life are much better.

Had an amazing trip to Cupertino for #wwdc and the @revenuecat.com Bashcade.

Good to be home though and can’t wait to dig into more of the sessions.

Can you keep a secret? 🤫

#Shipaton is coming back August-September and we're looking for community organizers and sponsors to make this year's mobile dev hackathon bigger... like _way_ bigger 😯

@charliemchapman.com's got the deets 👇

RevenueCat Part 2 We raised $50M to kick off RevenueCat Part 2—our journey from “simple API” to the most important software company for apps.

1️⃣ 🚀 Big news: We just closed a $50M Series C-2 led by
@baincapvc.bsky.social with @indexventures.bsky.social, @ycombinator.com.web.brid.gy, Adjacent, Volo Ventures, & SaaStr Fund doubling-down

🔗 Jacob shares more on the blog → www.revenuecat.com/blog/company...

Sam and Jony introduce io Building a family of AI products for everyone.

I don't think this is the end of Apple by any means, but AI is clearly the future and Apple is behind. Jony and his team joining OpenAI could be a turning point for personal computing devices. Exciting times for technologists. Less exciting for Apple shareholders.

openai.com/sam-and-jony/

YouTube video by Make Music Miami Hermanos Gutierrez at the Miami Beach Bandshell 6/21/23 (4K)

The whole performance is fantastic, but this song is the best of the bunch: youtu.be/z__mjdWEJjA?...

So good.

Your avatar being added as a custom emoji in Slack is a Sass right of passage we don't celebrate enough.

That too.

We're out here in the mountains, all together, shipping and testing all of this stuff and damn is it awesome. This is the way.

Watching The Empire Strikes Back, at Sundance no less, with the @revenuecat.com team. Legit.

I took one similar after Deep Dish last year!

Internet friends @charliemchapman.com and @ryanashcraft.com on stage at @deepdishswift.com!

YouTube video by RevenueCat 2025 Spring Tokyo Tour 🇯🇵 Day 1 – From Sensoji to Sakura

Day 1 video recap of RevenueCat's recent Tokyo Tour. Epic.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GX7I...

I just had a 4 minute conversation with Siri wherein I was trying to pause a timer and she literally was stuck in an infinite loop. I hade the wherewithal to start recording the last minute. @gruber.foo stay for the end to hear what kids think of Siri.

Something rotten indeed.

The Concurrency Corner Come, hang out, and talk about Swift Concurrency. Bring your questions or just listen in!

Ok, so the last online event I did went better than I could have hoped! Fantastic questions and discussion.

Let's do it again, with more space and more time!

Come hang with me and talk Swift Concurrency March 29

www.eventbrite.com/e/the-concur...

Let me know if you can spot when I shipped a caching bug. 🔍

Yes!

The @Metallica Apple Immersive thing is one of the most incredible pieces of content I have ever experienced.

This is THE reason for Vision Pro to exist.

I would pay gobs of money for more content like this.

Working late tonight and I hear my daughter from the kitchen, "Hey Siri, play some TOOL."

Then she comes into my office and says, "Hey Dad, I was wondering if you wanted to come hang with me in the kitchen."

This is it.

Took me a minute to place him. Excellent performance.

Yesterday, I wrote a React app from scratch using only Cursor.

Today, I deployed it to Vercel.

Tomorrow, it will power a new feature in NextGP.

I wrote an entire React app tonight with Claude. I don’t know anything about React. Wild.

“Hey Siri, clear all of my alarms.”

You’re welcome.

I just took my daughter to buy her first real skateboard and now we’re getting her nails done. I love how she’s already her own person.

Siri Is Super Dumb and Getting Dumber Siri with Apple Intelligence gives confident but embarrasingly wrong answers to sports trivia questions, both famous (Super Bowls) and obscure (North Dakota high school hoops).

I had so much fun writing this one.

To the folks that told me, "Skeleton crew is even better than Andor..." I'm very upset with you.

Andor remains peak Star Wars and you are losing it if you think Skeleton Crew should even be mentioned in the top 5.

Severance promo on Apple.com, featuring a Lumon desktop terminal from Macrodata Refinement.

It might be a while before we see Apple feature another company's computer on apple.com.

Curly fries!