Ricky WitherspoonAs developers we don’t throw away enough code. Don’t get attached. Try, scrap it and move on when you realize something is better.
This is what I did with Dev Creds last night and today. As soon as I pushed to prod and started doing more testing last night, I came across some real annoyances. I decide to scrap my encryption syncing approach and try again.
I’m so happy I did. It now seems to be in a rock solid state, reduce the LOC by a huge amount, and made the mental model for it all so much easier to grasp.
At the same time I laid out a new generic schema approach for the database and now have out of the box support for so many more use cases. I’ll be able to launch with API credentials, username/passwords, software licenses, database credentials, signing certificates and so much more!
All of this while being super secure, learning a bunch and having so much fun. Sometimes it’s not about what you end up shipping but the journey along the way. Couldn’t be more excited!
This is going to set my (arbitrary) timeline back a small bit but wow will the app be in a better spot come launch. I also feel I now have the time and space to slow down, take my time, and really think things through. It feels good.
#BuildInPublic #IndieDev #Swift #swiftui #security
#BuildInPublic #IndieDev #Swift #swiftui #security
I have half a mind to rename this app to Byte Me
I broke out my new DB architecture and encryption into a demo app and this is the result. I can very easily add new credential types with minimal effort and it’s all secure.
