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Sivaprasad Radhakrishnan

@prasadrl.bsky.social

πŸ‘‹ Indie iOS & Mac OS developer. Building LightPlan, AppDesk, TideAlert, WeatherMenu, Moon Plus & Timely Previously, Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft.

730 Followers  |  521 Following  |  35 Posts  |  Joined: 17.10.2023  |  1.9145

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LightPlan v1.1 is out now.

apps.apple.com/us/app/light...

17.10.2025 23:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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LightPlan v1.1 is out now! This update includes beautiful home screen widgets to track golden hour, sunrise, sunset, moon and phase times plus a critical bug fixes.

apps.apple.com/us/app/light...

#buildinpublic #indiedev #lightplan

15.10.2025 16:25 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Weathermenu for macOS is $0.99 on sale now!

13.10.2025 07:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

User reported my menu bar app was getting displayed partially offscreen and made it completely unusable. I tried it on 2 different machines and couldn’t repro.

Turns out he was using an external monitor and my frame positioning logic was grabbing the wrong frame using NSScreen.main. #buildinpublic

10.10.2025 14:59 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes, definitely planning on tracking the redemption rates across platforms.

06.10.2025 07:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Building a feature in AppDesk to distribute offer codes for subscriptions to your users both in-app and through web.

#buildinpublic #ios #subscription #offercodes

05.10.2025 18:46 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Most important skill an entreprenuer needs is self-discipline to stay focused on what matters most every single day. Drifting away slowly to less important things comes naturally, but staying course amist all distractions and heading full steam requires a conscious effort.

#buildinpublic #indiedev

04.10.2025 19:20 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ“Έ New app launch alert! Find perfect light using sun and moon visualization on a 3D map. Perfect for landscape, wedding, real estate and outdoor photography. Download on #ios for free from lightplan.app

Red line shows the angle of sun or moon in real time.
#appstore #photography #launch #shipaton

03.10.2025 14:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Get your daily and 10 day weather info from the macos menu bar app - Weather Menu. Get your promocodes from the link below to dowload it for free.

appdesk.dev/p/38HXY

#iosdev #buildinpublic #indiedev #ios #appstore #weather

28.09.2025 19:59 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Teaching LLM to code will go down in history as one of the biggest accomplishments of open source software. The impact of this is more significant than we realize.

27.09.2025 17:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Timely - Get Your Promo Code Claim your exclusive promo code for Timely

Giving away free promo codes to celebrate the launch of version 2.0 update to Timely. First come, first serve. Get your promo code at link below.

appdesk.dev/p/LB4QK

#indiedev #buildinpublic #macosdev #iosdev #applaunch #promocode

26.09.2025 23:29 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€ŽTimely - Timezones + Reminders β€ŽThe essential time zone reminder app for Mac. Never miss important moments across global time zones. Smart Reminders That Understand Time Zones Timely's intelligent reminder system is designed ...

Link to the app. apps.apple.com/us/app/timel...

25.09.2025 22:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Just released a major update 2.0 to Timely. Mac OS menu bar app to manage timezones and reminders!

Created this to help myself as I work with people across different timezones and was bad at forgetting things and need quick and easy way to remind myself.

#macosdev #iosdev #indiedev #buildinpublic

25.09.2025 22:57 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Have a great trip to India!

24.09.2025 01:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What do you use for vibe designing? I have been using Claude code for simple coding and design tasks and i am happy with it so far. Comment if you have used any other AI tools for doing vibe designing?

21.09.2025 20:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Claude saying you’re absolutely right on every response is literally quite annoying. I would rather have it articulate the pros and cons before jumping straight to implementation or even push back on some user suggestions

#indiedev #claude #vibecoding

21.09.2025 15:19 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Updated Tide Alert app with Wind, Gust, Water temperature and swell forecasts. Also updated for iOS 26 compatibility.

#indiedev #iosdev #buildinpublic

21.09.2025 03:07 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Best Times to Fish Using Tide Data - Complete Fishing Guide Master tide fishing with our comprehensive guide. Learn optimal tide times, fish behavior patterns, and proven strategies for different species.

Unlock better fishing trips by learning how tides affect your catch! 🌊🎣 Check out this easy guide to fishing with tidesβ€”perfect for beginners and seasoned anglers.

tidealert.app/howto/fishin...

#FishingTips #TideFishing #AnglersGuide

30.06.2025 07:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I am opening up a private early beta for AppDesk (a native desktop app for mac). AppDesk makes it very convenient to view AppStore reviews from all countries in one place and respond to them with an AI generated response.

If you have a need of such a tool please DM me your email.
#buildinpublic

17.02.2025 21:02 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I prefer the calendar view for sure. Esp given these are time dependent items. If you want to take it one step further, within calendar view, you can have a day view that lists the items in a single column.

16.02.2025 20:22 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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I'll be giving away promo-codes to download WeatherMenu for free. Leave a comment below or send me a DM if you are interested.

apps.apple.com/us/app/weath...

12.12.2024 02:48 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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Playing with gradient animations for special user interaction. Here I'm animating the background & borders using gradient transitions as well as animating the text as it appears. Happy with the results so far!

#swift #buildinpublic #macos

10.12.2024 18:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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These inline transitions feel far more delightful & nicer than presenting a modal dialog, plus these are super easy to implement in swiftUI.

This one line code is all you need:

.transition(.offset(.init(width: 0, height: -40)).combined(with: .opacity))

#buildinpublic #swift #swiftui #macos

08.12.2024 20:35 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

New starter pack to bring all bird photographers together on bsky. If you are one of them, please add a comment and I'll add. go.bsky.app/4ioyQKo

06.12.2024 21:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Nice! WeatherMenu is ranking #3 under weather category on the mac appstore. Thank you to everyone who tried it.

#buildinpublic

06.12.2024 19:37 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Every founder should read this book. I have the audible version and I love it.

06.12.2024 17:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hi Nick πŸ‘‹

06.12.2024 06:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Here's a quick preview of Tide Alert for iOS. Available in US, UK and Australia.

apps.apple.com/us/app/tide-...

#buildinpublic #tidealert #ios

04.12.2024 16:45 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Now I've added the ability to generate a response using GenAI for appstore reviews within the app.

#appstore #iOS #macOS #indiesky #buildinpublic

03.12.2024 17:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
SwiftUI Performance for Demanding Apps by Aviel Gross - SwiftLeeds 2023
YouTube video by SwiftLeeds SwiftUI Performance for Demanding Apps by Aviel Gross - SwiftLeeds 2023

By far one of my favourite talks about how swiftui works under the hood and what we should know about common performance pitfalls and boosts

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDRr...

27.11.2024 07:07 β€” πŸ‘ 41    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

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