Martin Tale

New app version submitted for review 🚀 I added iPhone Duo support so they will expedite the review, right? 😅 #iOSDev #buildinginpublic #IndieDev #BuildInPublic #iPhone #iOS #SoloDev #AppStore #AppDev

Woohoo 🥳 A 6+ year old project just earned me £24 🤯 I'm committed to finishing a sequel for that game by the end of the year 👌 #GameDev #IndieDev #IndieGame #SoloDev #GameDevelopment #IndieDevs #IndieGameDev

Working on VR game 🎮 Inspired by Duck Hunt if you're old enough to remember that one 😅 #MetaQuest #VR #GameDev #IndieDev #VirtualReality #MetaQuest3 #HelloWorld

People want to be sold a dream #IndieDev #BuildInPublic #Startups #SaaS #Entrepreneurship #IndieHackers

Is SaaS really dead now? #IndieDev #BuildInPublic #Startups #SaaS #Entrepreneurship #IndieHackers

2 days and I have done no work 😬 Feels weird but it has been nice to have a bit of time off 😊 #BuildInPublic #IndieHacker #SoloDev

So close to unlocking 2 new characters by walking 💪🥳🐌 #walking #hiking #10K #halloween

Get Fit in Public - Week 8 ⭐️ Weight: 96.45kg (+0.7kg this week, -2.75kg total) 🟩🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🎯 76kg 📊 50K steps 🏋️ 2 gym sessions Looks like a step backwards but it isn't 😊 #WeightLoss #WeightLossJourney

Me and @marclou.bsky.social just hit $50K+ MRR combined 🚀 Teamwork makes the dream work. I'm the "+" in "$50K+" 😎 #IndieDev #BuildInPublic #Startups #SaaS #Entrepreneurship #IndieHackers

What's wrong with me? 😬 My app isn't even submitted and I'm already adding iPhone Duo support 🙈 I should just ship it 😅 #buildinpublic #indiedev #SoloDev #iOSDev #AppDev #SwiftUI #IndieHackers #DevLife

This year so far 🥳 → a half marathon → 3 muddy obstacle races → 8 10K races For someone who was never into sports, this has been an amazing year 🥰 #Running #RunChat #FitnessJourney #Runner #HalfMarathon #10K

Trying to lose weight? 🏃 I'm building a weight loss app and need 10 early testers 🥳 Free access, and your feedback will help me make it even better 🫶 Let me know if you would like to join 😉 #BuildInPublic #WeightLoss #HealthyLifestyle #IndieDev #WeightLossJourney #AppDevelopment

My first Meta Quest creation 🥽 Literally "Hello World" project in VR 😅 A globe you can hold, with hand tracking and a landmark drop game 🌍 Having fun 🥳 #MetaQuest #VR #GameDev #IndieDev #VirtualReality #MetaQuest3 #HelloWorld

First time making a mascot for my new app 🥳 Meet this fluffy blue guy 🥰 What do you think? #BuildInPublic #SoloDev #CuteArt #IndieDevs #IndieDev #GameDev #CharacterDesign #DigitalArt #Mascot

Fuuuuuck 😬 Just realized that I'm now closer to pension age than to the day I was born 😅 #Aging #Retirement #Pension #Midlife #Millennial #GenX

My first ever App Store event 🥳 A Halloween Walk Challenge in my walking game, where you unlock six spooky characters 🎃👻 Would be huge if Apple featured it for Halloween 🐌 I don't have my hopes up tho 😅 #GameDev #IndieDev #IndieGame #IndieGameDev #SoloDev #CozyGames #Halloween #AppStore

Switching to B2B after new year 🫡 #Business #SmallBusiness #B2B #Sales #B2BSales #Entrepreneur #Startup

The Halloween Challenge is live now until Nov 15 🎃 Solo goals (your steps): 🎃 Pumpkin Head at 75K 💀 Skeleton at 150K 🧙 Witch at 250K Co-op goals: 🧛 Vampire at 2M 🧻 Mummy at 4.5M 👻 Ghost at 7M #GameDev #IndieDev #IndieGameDev #SpookySeason #Halloween #GameArt #PixelArt #BuildInPublic #IndieGame

Snail Walk Halloween update 🐌🎃👻 Over 300 commits later, it's DONE 🥳 Should be available already. Full announcement and release video tomorrow 🥰 #GameDev #IndieDev #IndieGameDev #SpookySeason #Halloween

Get Fit in Public - Week 7 ⭐️ Weight: 95.75kg (-1.35kg this week, -3.45kg total) 🟩🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🎯 76kg 📊 50K steps 🏋️ 2 gym sessions 🏃 10km run Did a 10K race for the first time in a while 💪 And my first green cube, over 10% of the way to my goal 🥰 #Running #WeightLoss #WeightLossJourney #10K

Got my first negative review 🙈 ★☆☆☆☆ 😭 What's the best way to handle this? #GameDev #IndieDev #SoloDev #BuildInPublic #IndieGameDev #SoftwareDevelopment

So close to 1st place on Uneed 🥳 Only 15 more votes needed 🐌 150+ upvotes already. Thank you all who helped me get here 🫶 www.uneed.best/tool/snail-w... #BuildInPublic #IndieDev

Just committed to dental implant surgery 🦷 → Cost: 5k 💸 → Failure rate: 5% 🙈 → Not a fan 😅 #HealthCare #Dentist #Teeth #DentalCare #DentalImplants

Halloween theme is DONE 🥳 It's my first time ever making a seasonal event 🎃 Working on characters now, as I want to make this event super special 👻 Have wanted to do this in my games for many years now 🙈 Better late than never, right? 🐌 #Halloween #PixelArt #Spooky #Spooktober #GameDevelopment

Snail Walk Art 2.0 🐌 New pixel art for my walking game 🥰 #IndieDev #GameArt #GameDev #PixelArt #IndieGame

Snail Walk is 2nd on the Uneed weekly leaderboard 🥈 By far my most successful directory launch 🥳 Voting is still open 😉 www.uneed.best/tool/snail-w... 🐌 Also working hard on the Halloween update below 🎃👻 #IndieDev #BuildInPublic #GameDev #IndieGame #IndieGameDev #Halloween #SoloDev

Number 1 🥇🥳 Snail Walk survived and Bob is happy 🐌 #indiedev #buildinpublic #GameDev #IndieGame #IndieGames #IndieGameDev #GameDevelopment #SoloDev

1M+ visitors in the last 30 days? 🤯 My conversion rate is 💩 306 / 1M = $0.0003 per visitor 😅 #buildinpublic #indiehackers #IndieDev #SaaS #Entrepreneurship

Launched Snail Walk on Uneed 🥳 It's #1 right now 🤯 www.uneed.best/tool/snail-w... #IndieDev #BuildInPublic #IndieHackers #ProductHunt #ProductLaunch #LaunchDay

Upgraded my #VPS today 💸 #SelfHosting isn't cheap and takes your time too 😬 Maybe I should use the #Cloudflare free tier more 🤔 #BuildInPublic #DevOps #SelfHosted #IndieDev

RIP my Ship-a-Ton entry 🖤🪦💀 Bob wasn't good enough this year 🐌 Congrats to all the winners 🥳 Thank you @revenuecat.com for organizing #shipaton, it was a blast 🫶 Back to Ship-some-More 🚀 #IndieDev #BuildInPublic #SoloDev #Hackathon #IndieHackers #AppDev

10 months of building in public: - $705 revenue 🥳 - shipped 16 projects 🚀 + 2 wip 🚧 - 1 is making actual money 💪 - others failed or were made just for fun 🙃 I still doubt myself but it gets easier 😇 Never give up 🫶 #SoloDev #DevLife #IndieDev #BuildInPublic

Forced time off this weekend 😬 Haven't hit the limits in a long time but I have been cooking this week 🔥 Time to touch grass.. I mean sofa and Netflix 💨 #Claude #AI #Weekend

#GetFitInPublic - Week 6 ⭐️ Weight: 97.1kg (-0.15kg this week, -2.1kg total) 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🎯 76kg 📊 measly 20K steps 🏋️ 3 gym sessions 🏃 5km run Honestly, it should have been a lot better. Portion control and healthy eating were great 🙈 Should earn my first green cube soon 🥳 #fitness #weightloss

Bought another domain 😆 My to-do list: 📈 My free time: 📉 Maybe I can escape in VR for a moment 💨 #buildinpublic #indiedev

First stream DONE 🥳 Made a game for the LittleJS game jam in 2 hours, live 🚀 Start was a bit of a disaster. Mic didn't work, other tech problems 😅 But I pushed through and enjoyed it by the end 🥳 Play it: martintale.itch.io/spark-desk Rewatch: www.twitch.tv/martintale #gamedev #littlejs

Going live on Twitch for the first time 😬 Building my LittleJS game jam game while you watch 🚂💨💨💨 What could possibly go wrong 😅 www.twitch.tv/martintale #gamedev #LittleJS

Skins 🎃 Seasons 🎃 Events 🎃 All coming to Snail Walk 🐌 Starting with Halloween, where a pumpkin guy, skeleton, vampire and witch get chased by Bob 💀🥳 Still WIP but having fun with this 🥰 #indiegame #pixelart #gamedev

Most of my projects are simple 🤪 Many aren't even meant to make money 🙈 But I'm getting better at shipping FAST and killing what doesn't work 💪 Slow but steady 🐌🚀 #buildinpublic #indiehackers

Made another game 😅 A multiplayer color puzzle I wanted to build 10 years ago. It's called FLOOD 🌊 There's a daily puzzle too, in case nobody's online 🙈 flood.martintale.com #indiedev #gamedev

People really started using SI instead of AI 🙈 Sooo cringe 😬 #AI

Trying to crosspost on multiple platforms again 🚀 Starting numbers 🙃 → X: 3,024 → Bluesky: 176 → Threads: 127 → Mastodon: 3 🙈 → Instagram: 30 → TikTok: 0 😅 → Reddit: 31 and 5,196 karma → LinkedIn: 185 connections Does LinkedIn have followers too? 🤔 #buildinpublic

Streaming on Twitch for the first time later today 🥳 I'll build a LittleJS jam game live, from zero to (hopefully) best game ever 🚂😅 A bit nervous 😬 www.twitch.tv/martintale #gamedev #LittleJS #twitch

#screenshotsaturday #js13k #gamedev #javascript After feedback, balancing, difficulty adjustments, this is gameplay from the near final version of Poopicorn, from a later wave where you can see some chaos and the super-fast black pegacorns in action.

Hey #PitchYaGame, Keep Making is an all-hand-drawn, isometric dungeon builder for creating #ttrpg maps and fantasy rooms! Get notified when the Steam page goes live at the link 👉 playkeepmaking.com #gamedev #indiedev

Basic multiplayer/state sync is done 🥳 Already impressed with what other have done for the #vibejam this year 🤯 #BuildInPublic #GameJam #GameDev #WebDev #IndieDev #SoloDev

1/4 of the year gone 😬 I knew it was coming, yet it still caught me off guard 😅 #BuildInPublic #GameDev #IndieDev #SoloDev #WebDev

How am I so shit? 💩😅 Just spend 5 hours making a simple landing page with waitlist 🙈 And it still doesn't work 🤪 And it looks shit too 🤣 #DevLife #BuildInPublic #CodingStruggles #RealTalk #DevHumor #LandingPage #WebDev #Struggles