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Aivars Meijers

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Published 15 days agoΒ β€’Β 1 min read

I became the bottleneck

The Part-time Solopreneur

Quick one today.

I need beta testers, and you're the right people to ask :)

Here's the problem I kept hitting.

I build mobile apps. More than one.

And feedback comes from everywhere.

App Store reviews. Google Play reviews. In-app feedback boards. My own to-do notes. All of it in different places.

So I became the hub. Reading one inbox, copying a task to another, tracking what I already replied to, forgetting half of it anyway.

The feedback tools helped me collect more. None helped me act on it.

So I built the thing I actually wanted.

It's called FeedbackThread. One inbox for all of it. iOS, Android, App Store, Google Play, feeding into one place. A roadmap and releases on the other side. And an AI agent that can work the queue over MCP, so some of it clears without me opening the app at all.

I'm already using it in one of my apps and will migrate all of them next week. I built it for me first.

Now I'm opening the beta.

Fitting, right? A feedback tool asking you for feedback.

Grab a beta spot here: https://feedbackthread.com​

One ask: tell me if this problem is even yours. I'm the only one with five inboxes. If you are too, I want to hear it.

That's it for today. Keep shipping πŸš€

Aivars

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Aivars Meijers

Part-time Indie Solopreneur

I'm building a portfolio with mobile apps and helping others to earn the first $1'000 on AppStore. Join The Part-time Solopreneur for tips and resources to build, launch, grow, and monetise your indie App business.

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