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Jon Yantz Jul 3, 2023

Hidde van der Ploeg

📢 Meet Billboard, a Swift Package that lets you add beautiful indie-app-focused and privacy-friendly Ads to your app.

📲 Customizable Ad overlay in SwiftUI
🔧 Flexible configuration
🎨 Use the default list of high-quality Ads or use your own source
🌈 Various Ad types
🎁 Ideal to get an ad-free premium tier.

https://github.com/hiddevdploeg/Billboard

GitHub - hiddevdploeg/Billboard: a Swift Package that lets you add beautiful and privacy-friendly Ads to your app. These are Advertisements for Indies, by Indies.

a Swift Package that lets you add beautiful and privacy-friendly Ads to your app. These are Advertisements for Indies, by Indies. - hiddevdploeg/Billboard

GitHub

Hidde van der Ploeg Jul 3, 2023

🎨 The default configuration shows any of the 24+ high-quality advertisements of other indie devs that I have approved for quality purposes.

If you want your app to be in here as well, please submit the form in the Read Me.

Hidde van der Ploeg Jul 3, 2023

🌈 Various Ad types

Billboard offers two* types of Ads that offers flexibility for different media types.

*There is a secret undocumented third type which is still undocumented because it needs a little more tweaking

Hidde van der Ploeg Jul 3, 2023

🔧 Flexible configuration
If you want complete control over which apps are being displayed, you can also add your own source list. It only needs a simple JSON that requires just a few parameters.

Hidde van der Ploeg Jul 3, 2023

🎁 Billboard is 100% free and a perfect way to add "Remove Ads" as a USP to your premium tier

These are Advertisements for Indies, by Indies.

I would love it if you could give it a go (maybe even give it a star ⭐️). Please let me know if you have any questions 😇

https://github.com/hiddevdploeg/Billboard

GitHub - hiddevdploeg/Billboard: a Swift Package that lets you add beautiful and privacy-friendly Ads to your app. These are Advertisements for Indies, by Indies.

a Swift Package that lets you add beautiful and privacy-friendly Ads to your app. These are Advertisements for Indies, by Indies. - hiddevdploeg/Billboard

GitHub

MrB 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Jul 3, 2023

@hidde genius!

Hidde van der Ploeg Jul 3, 2023

✨ If you don't fancy a fullscreen view but prefer a smaller banner to display within your content, you can do that now too! Add a BillboardBannerView wherever you like.

https://github.com/hiddevdploeg/Billboard/blob/main/README.md#billboardbannerview

Billboard/README.md at main · hiddevdploeg/Billboard

Easy ads for your iOS/iPadOS app without the bad bits - Billboard/README.md at main · hiddevdploeg/Billboard

GitHub

Wolfgang Lutz Jul 3, 2023

@hidde does billboard automatically hide ads for apps that are already installed? Would be a nice feature IMHO

Hidde van der Ploeg Jul 3, 2023

@WLBORg Not sure if I can see which apps are installed as I would need to know all deeplinks? but hiding the current app would be good!

Could you add an Issue to the repo? :D

tundsdev 💫Jul 3, 2023

It’s pretty lit knowing one of my tutorials kick started this sweet new library 🤝

It uses the CachedImage that I built when I was looking at how to rebuild AysncImage with caching 👀

📹 youtu.be/VZMNNaMjLyM

And cos we’re all homies, I even have a version that saves images to disk 💾

📹youtu.be/QYBwIE1hyY4

#SwiftUI #iosdev

David Haydl Jul 3, 2023

@hidde I will have a look at this for my upcoming app for sure! great idea!!

suzietchi Jul 3, 2023

@hidde this kind of advertisement actually seems desirable to me as a user.

Hidde van der Ploeg Jul 3, 2023

@Suzie97 😂✨

Holger Krupp Jul 3, 2023

@hidde oh that’s great. I‘ve build my own ad framework for „fake ads“. Maybe I switch to yours. 👍🏻

Taylor Lineman Jul 3, 2023

@hidde This looks amazing!

Hidde van der Ploeg Jul 3, 2023

@TaylorLineman Thanks Taylor!