Matteo Ferraroni

Matteo Ferraroni

Indie maker · privacy-first health
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About

Indie developer. I build small, honest apps. Currently working on Apex Trace, a health dashboard where your data never leaves your phone.

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2mo ago

Solo dev, health data nerd, here to learn how launching actually works

Hey everyone, I'm Matteo. solo developer, currently all-in on Apex Trace: a privacy-first dashboard that turns your Fitbit data (via the Google Health API) into dark, animated charts. No backend, everything stays on your phone, pay once and that's it.

Building it taught me some humility: writing the app was the easy half. Google's security assessment for health data scopes, store listings, screenshots, privacy policy wording... the "everything else" turned out to be its own full-time job.

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3mo ago

What are the 5 tools you simply couldn't do your work without?

This could be related to your industry, or even a side project you're working on.

Here are my 5 (I couldn't function without them):

  1. Grammarly proofreading my texts, not just posts, but also client communication

  2. ChatGPT / Claude mostly brainstorming, help with copy, and summarising

  3. Figma I can put the basic graphics together quickly.

  4. Translator sounds incredibly old-school, but English is not my mother tongue

  5. Gmail and not only for communication, but also for storing ideas and sending myself email reminders for posts

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