{"id":51950,"date":"2026-05-19T13:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T17:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=51950"},"modified":"2026-05-19T20:42:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T00:42:21","slug":"kickstart-1-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/19\/kickstart-1-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Kickstart 1.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hackingwithswift.com\/articles\/285\/introducing-kickstart-the-app-that-helps-indie-developers-ship\">Paul Hudson<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@twostraws\/116579979556642973\">Mastodon<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/twostraws\/status\/2055280786786443376\">Twitter<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.hackingwithswift.com\/articles\/285\/introducing-kickstart-the-app-that-helps-indie-developers-ship\">\n<p>It&rsquo;s called <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/app\/kickstart-app-accelerator\/id6758355178\">Kickstart<\/a>, and it has only one job: to help indie developers make more money on the App Store.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of juggling spreadsheets, launch docs, analytics dashboards, review tools, and half-finished marketing plans, Kickstart gives you one focused workspace for launch, growth, and iteration.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Kickstart helps turn all those disconnected responsibilities into clear, manageable next steps. So, instead of wondering what to focus on next, Kickstart gives you practical day-by-day tasks that help move your app forward, and then helps you complete those tasks right inside the app.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/06\/helm-2-0\/\">Helm 2.0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Hudson (Mastodon, Twitter): It&rsquo;s called Kickstart, and it has only one job: to help indie developers make more money on the App Store. Instead of juggling spreadsheets, launch docs, analytics dashboards, review tools, and half-finished marketing plans, Kickstart gives you one focused workspace for launch, growth, and iteration. [&#8230;] Kickstart helps turn all those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2026-05-19T17:35:12Z","apple_news_api_id":"fabf9b62-641c-4b9a-8070-f0f8bdd1fa7b","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2026-05-19T17:35:12Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A-r-bYmQcS5qAcPD4vdH6ew","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[91,101,75,653,2916,30,32,2742,663,71,1959,2016,97],"class_list":["post-51950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-appstore","tag-business","tag-developertool","tag-itunes-connect","tag-kickstart","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macos-tahoe-26","tag-marketing","tag-programming","tag-simulator","tag-testflight","tag-video"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51951,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51950\/revisions\/51951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}