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  "description": "Leo Dion and I discuss building Plinky from scratch, the technical decisions behind using SwiftUI and Vapor, creating delightful user experiences, and the journey from working at Twitter to becoming an indie developer.",
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  "publishedAt": "2024-11-20T12:00:00.000Z",
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  "tags": [
    "Industry",
    "iOS",
    "Podcast",
    "Programming",
    "Swift",
    "Plinky",
    "SwiftUI"
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  "textContent": "I joined Leo Dion on the Empower Apps podcast to discuss my journey building Plinky, a link-saving app that I created to solve my own organizational needs. We explored the technical stack behind Plinky, ranging from SwiftUI to Vapor to Postgres, as well as my custom offline persistence library, Boutique.\n\n<!--preview-snippet-->\n\nDuring our conversation, we dove into the design philosophy behind Plinky, focusing on making it playful, colorful, and customizable. Leo and I discussed the challenges of indie development, from agonizing over every color and icon choice to building features that work for both casual and power users. We also talked about everything coming to Plinky, like Link Reminders, and a native Mac app, as well as AI features that will elevate Plinky as a platform.\n\n- Empower Apps Episode 177: Building Plinky with Joe Fabisevich\n\n- Watch on YouTube\n\n- Original recording",
  "title": "Empower Apps Podcast: Building Plinky as an Indie Developer"
}