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2024 PWA Roadmap - Apple's New War With The Web...

So only days after posting about how I was done with the app stores due to their anticompetitive behavior, and switching entirely to the web and PWAs, apple sneaks in this zinger into their beta iOS version for the EU... We'll have to see how things pan out, but it

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Anti-Competitive App Stores Hurt Consumers and Developers | Wait a minute though...

The mobile app stores assert a significant technical and time investment to stay on good terms with them. They grow more anti-competitive and toxic to small grassroots development projects like this every year. What are the other options? In the video below, the new EU rules and regulations explain how

Photo Sharing 📸 Feature Release - June/July 2023

Photo sharing has been on the roadmap for some time and was a feature I was particularly excited to deliver. You may now share and view photos in your Hubs and Events on all major platforms! Also, growth and interest in the app has continued. I'm currently looking at ~2k

Finished Events Feature - May 2023 - Passed 1.5k users 🌎

We've passed the 1.5k userbase milestone with users signed up and creating Hubs and Events all around the world. Along with this the final roadmap item for the year on the events feature set, geofences on events, was finished and shipped. So users will now be able to see

All new, beautiful Maps! 🗺️ - April 2023 - Nominated for Forbes 30 under 30 🎉

Userbase growth has been continuing to climb, going from the 1k milestone at the beginning of the month to ~1,260 users today at the end of April 2023. With that, I'm very excited to announce the release of an all-new map update. This brings a much-needed level of polish,

Passed 1000 User Milestone 🎉 - March 2023 - Event Capacity Feature Launched

We've passed the 1k userbase milestone! People all over the world are using the app to facilitate community by making Hubs and events. I'm looking forward to the upcoming 5k, 10k, and on, for user signup and adoption. With each new person, this project becomes more streamlined and the resulting

February 2023 - Finished Hubs at Events & Improved Invites

What's New This month was a bit of a slower one but delivered on two considerable features. Events at Hubs are now live and usable. Also, users can now invite other users based on filters such as per Hub they're an admin of, a member of, or per Event, they've

January 2023 - ASO & Roadmap Progress

This month there was a massive jump in user account creation. I went from 266 user accounts created to 485, almost doubling the user count! I attribute this to last month's change to the expedited getting started process vs the old registration upfront. Along with that, I made changes to

December 2022 - 2x install to user conversion rate & Lazztech Hub Roadmap 🗺

This end of year review is a great opportunity to reflect on the progress over 2022 with the Lazztech Hub App. It's been 8 months since releasing the app for iOS, 7 months since the Android open beta release on the play store, & 1 month since releasing the progressive web

November 2022 🦃 - New PWA & Tech Debt Burn-down 🔥

Growth & Metrics This month I've gone from 199 users signed up to 216 users at the end of this month. More on this at the bottom of the post... However, the install rates across iOS & Android continue to be rather healthy in the ballpark of 800 installs a month. I'm

October 2022 🎃 - Events @ Hubs & Background Check-in on Android

Growth & Metrics Growth has wained this month only going from 180 users from the beginning of the month to 199. I attribute this to some perf & stability issues I'm working to resolve. Also this month was rather busy so I've shipped less updates to the app which may have contributed

September 2022 🍂 - Shareable Deeplinks & Approaching 200 Users

Growth & Metrics Growth continues to be on an upwards trend. Last month I broke the 100 user signup mark & spoke too soon when posting the update, the growth continued from ~80 to 137 in August. We're currently sitting at 180 as I write this. Going forward I'd like to be

August 2022 - Hit 100+ User Signups on Lazztech.Hub App 🎉

This has been another productive month for both user base growth, & feature shipping. My growth goal for the month was to break the 100 user signup mark, from ~80 at the beginning of the month. This was met and exceeded, now sitting at ~137 user signups. I've shipped a number

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July 2022 Review - Gained access to OpenAI - DALL·E 2

July has been a busy month, and surprisingly productive in retrospect. Here are some of the highlights. Gained access to OpenAI - DALL·E 2 OpenAI's amazing DALL·E 2 AI model for text prompt-based image generation is available to a limited amount of users in preview mode. Access is

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Lazztech Hub @ Toorcamp 2022 🏕

Toorcamp 2022 was a breath of fresh air after a 4-year wait due to the pandemic. I participated with friends, volunteering as a mentor for StudentRND/Codeday. It was an excellent chance to reconnect with people I hadn't seen since before the pandemic and make friends with some new hackers

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#100DaysOfHomeLab - Lazztech.Lab Open Source Announcement 🎉

I've been an avid enthusiast of "self-hosting" open source & my own custom software for many years now. It's one of the first subjects I started blogging about. You can see the historical development of this hobby play out by looking at the posts tagged "homelab". homelab - LazztechLazztech Through the

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June 2022 in Review

To read the last "month in review" post click the link below: The month of May 2022 in ReviewWow, hard to believe it’s only been a month since officially announcing the iPhone release of Lazztech Hub! ‎Lazztech Hub‎Lazztech Hub is a geolocation-based social app that lets you share

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The month of May 2022 in Review

Wow, hard to believe it's only been a month since officially announcing the iPhone release [https://lazz.tech/lazztech-hub-2022-updates/] of Lazztech Hub! ‎Lazztech Hub‎Lazztech Hub is a geolocation-based social app that lets you share with other “Hub” members when you are present at the Hub’s physical location in

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Lazztech Hub iPhone Release 🎉

‎Lazztech Hub‎Lazztech Hub is a geolocation-based social app that lets you share with other “Hub” members when you are present at the Hub’s physical location in the world. Users will only be able to see Hubs on the map that they are a part of. Hubs are private

iOS App Submission - Annual Export Self Classification Reports

Disclaimer, I'm not a lawyer and this is intended for educational purposes only. With that out of the way, this blog entry is intended to cover resources I found helpful in my process of figuring out how to file an annual self-classification report for iOS app submissions. If you're wondering

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Lazztech Hub App Winter Updates 🎄

Leo Lazzarini joining in development! Leo Lazzarini, my brother, has joined in on the development effort. Since the beginning of the pandemic, he has been working full-time and more on a career change. He has completed an extensive series of full-stack development courses along with additional self-directed learning and multiple

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Lazztech Hub: iOS Beta App Available

I've decided it's long overdue to make this app accessible to people, so I'm doing a soft launch as a beta. But first, if you're not familiar with the app then check out the product announcement to see how it aims to foster community gatherings. Product Announcement: Lazztech HubThis is

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Homelab Journey -- Quarantine Updates

This is a follow up to this post from a few years ago: * https://lazz.tech/setting-up-a-lazztech-private-cloud-with-docker-swarm-raspberry-pi-cluster/ TLDR: Over the years I went from self-hosting & deploying code on a Raspberry Pi cluster with Docker & Docker Compose, then Docker Swarm, then to a proper x86 server with the Hashistack, then briefly

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Product Announcement: Lazztech Hub

This is Lazztech Hub. A geolocation-based social app that I’ve been coding from scratch for about the past 2+ years. I’ve been working on it in the evenings and weekends, after my day job, so it’s been slow going. I’m doing everything I can to launch

CHROME STYLE DEV TOOLS ON MOBILE WITH IONIC (ERUDA)

I found myself wanting more debugging information while working on a personal Ionic 4 app. When something goes wrong I would like to be able to read the logs right then and there on app deployed to iOS. I’m going to share with you how I used a project