Three apps live on the App Store

Today all three apps are finally live on the App Store. My Next: Todo, My Next: List, and My Next: Note are out in the world as real products, not just TestFlight builds and screenshots and plans. That feels big. A little unreal too.

Looking back at these posts, it really has been a strange and intense stretch of work. First the excitement of getting the very first TestFlight build onto my phone. Then the discovery of the 64 notification limit. Then all the boring but necessary structure work: the website, the project organization, the CI, the screenshots, the App Store metadata, the support pages, the translations, the release process. A lot of it is not the kind of work anyone sees when they open the app, but it is exactly that invisible work that makes a release feel solid.

There have also been a few lessons along the way. Some things looked simpler than they were. Subscriptions definitely belonged in that category. Finding beta testers turned out to be harder than expected too. And App Review still managed to find an issue that neither I nor the beta testers could reproduce consistently. In the end that was fixed as well, and perhaps that is just part of shipping software: the last few percent always take longer than you think.

What feels good now is that the original idea survived the whole process. The apps are still what I wanted them to be: calm, focused, personal, offline-first. Todo for planning your days and weeks. List for the practical everyday lists. Note for thoughts, ideas, and reference. Three separate apps, each doing one thing well, but clearly belonging together.

So this is a real milestone. The beta phase is over. v1.0 is live. And after all the building, fixing, refining, translating, exporting, uploading, and waiting, it is honestly just nice to be able to say: they made it to the App Store.