# Weekly Indie Log #10
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Check out my apps: HabitKit, WinDiary and Liftbear!
So, last week I didn't find the motivation to write an issue of this weekly log. Instead, I wrote an article with the title [Five Tools I (Almost) Use Everyday As An Indie](https://roehl.dev/five-tools-i-almost-use-everyday-as-an-indie-hacker) Hacker because I get daily messages in which people ask me which tool I use for my daily planning or how I do my screenshots. I got a lot of positive feedback and I plan to write articles like that more frequently because it's a nice distraction from my daily doing. Sometimes you need to see/do something different! Let's start this issue with a nice milestone: I generated over $1.25k in revenue in one week with my apps. That's a crazy personal best for me and I'm really happy that my apps are selling so good at the moment. I have the feeling that the Christmas/New Year season has begun and a lot of people are already working on their goals and resolutions for the next year. Of course, that's great for my habit-tracking app [HabitKit](https://habitkit.app). Although I'm sure that these numbers will be going down again and March church will be brutal, this is a great "side income". ![](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1699886807678/61cb94c2-2fc9-4d22-840e-e5080187dd51.png align="center") Another great achievement that I unlocked this week, was accumulating over 600 ratings/reviews on Google Play. Since I started ranking for some relevant keywords there I got a huge influx of new users, revenue and ratings! ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F_EF0SuWoAAO6eo?format=jpg&name=medium align="left") **HabitKit 1.6.0** I continued working on the latest HabitKit version. I onboarded a couple of users on both iOS and Android and got great feedback so far. One of the Android users also discovered a crash after upgrading to the latest version. Because he is well-versed in mobile development he was able to give me all the required information to fix the issue. The fix was a little bit tricky and cost a lot of time: Because I switched my database architecture from Isar to Sqlite and also migrated the IDs of the entities from basic integers to complex UUIDs, I also needed to migrate the associated data in the shared preferencees of the app in case the user added a home screen widget. So after getting that done, I needed a quick win and decided to implement user feedback that I get a lot: Displaying information about the selected habit in the charts section of the app. Blasted through this in a couple of minutes and realized that I should have done this request way earlier. ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F-ZJVxrWYAEGS3O?format=jpg&name=medium align="left") I even made a post on X asking people if they want to join the beta and a handful of engaged users decided to help me. It was a little bit stressful to onboard them all at once to the beta version, but most of them were mobile developers themselves and had already a pretty good idea of how to join and what to look out for. Besides the aforementioned crash, no big issues so far and I'm really happy that I did a beta test this time because this gives me a lot of confidence. %[https://twitter.com/SebastianRoehl/status/1723388314470752659?s=20] **On Competitor Launches** There is a recent spike in new habit tracker apps launching on the App Store. They all use the same GitHub-style visualization technique as HabitKit. No problem with that so far, that's fair game. I didn't invent this visualization and everybody can use it. What's bugging me recently: Every time one of these apps launches, a huge load of people message me and tell me: "Woah dude, he is copying you, you need to step up your game now." and, to be honest, that's pretty stressful for my mental health. I don't want to know anything about my competitors, neither what they are doing nor how it's going for them. I just want to focus on my app and ignore the rest. So, if you're feeling the urge to share an announcement post about the latest habit-tracking app: I really appreciate the support, but please don't, it just makes me feel miserable! **Blog Makeover** As you probably already seen: I gave this blog a small makeover, changed some of the colors and updated the header image for every article. It was the first time I used DALL-E-3, which is included in my ChatGPT Plus subscription. I'm pretty happy with the result and will keep this design for now. Hope you like it too! ![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F-_BFedbEAABblH?format=jpg&name=4096x4096 align="left") That's it for this week, see you in the next one! 👋