Hi app dev here, and I have been thinking about trying to buy Google play installs for my app just to see if it actually does anything. My app has been on play store for a while now and my install numbers are low, which makes my listing look like nobody cares about it. I started looking into this mostly as an experiment to see if a push in installs changes how Google play ranks my app in search results.

Before I spend anything though I want to know a few things, like does buying playstore installs actually help my app show up higher on Google play or does it not matter at all, do the installs stick or do they just disappear after a few days, is there a risk of my app getting suspended or my developer account getting flagged for it, how do I tell if a provider is legit or just going to take my money and deliver nothing, and do the installs come from real devices or is it all bot stuff that Google play can detect right away?

If anyone here has done this before with their own app I would really like to hear how it went.

Could someone break it down for me how I would go about getting constant, reliable grocery price data imported in an app I’m building?

Is it me but its annoying when i change something in my expo app and then i go over to check and its not it

and i wish that it would be way faster, like just make a change and instantly on your phone without having to reload the app to see the change

and i also wish that i could just edit my app like Figma and just see the change instantly and not having to worry about finding that one line of code that i need to change

so thats why i build Basalt, an IDE extension that lives in your Cursor or VS code

It’s currently in beta, so please commit your app to Git before using it!

People have been hand-copying passages for centuries. That was the original commonplace book: find something worth keeping, write it out by hand, and close the book.

I used note apps for a long time. Features, brushes, layouts… I’d open them and forget why I came. Sometimes I only wanted a few quiet minutes copying something I liked. Instead I got pulled into whether my handwriting looked good or not.

So I built this app around one behavior: pick a short passage → copy it by hand → leave with a small finished page. No productivity system. No streaks. The point is the copying itself—something that helps empty my head.

It’s in the App Store review (no public download yet). Waitlist if you want it when it goes live:
https://properworks.co/moodscript

I'm also curious if you have interest in this kind of app or any thoughts or suggestions for me.

Has anyone built one? I’m attempting to build with Kimi. Man this thing is cool but it’s still very hard. Any tips? It’s my first time making an app. It’s for work! Any tips appreciated.