Not quite a side project, but I launched CoPlay about 3 years ago. Slow but steady growth up to 6k MRR for 2025. I think we will just about double that in 2026.
CoPlay is a platform for managing fleets of gaming consoles, users and subscriptions for pediatric hospitals. Think of it as an mdm for Xbox devices/users that does managed subscriptions
Man, this is gonna reveal some ignorance. But here goes. Please correct me where I'm wrong
.so/.dylib/.dll's typically get linked at load time, right? Like we aren't all manually loading dylibs in our source code. I guess I'm surprised on a platform as locked down as ios that they even allow you to link anything at run time.
chatgpt gives me this snippet but I have no way of knowing if this is roughly how it would look.
Class SBApplication = objc_getClass("SBApplication");
SEL launchSel = sel_registerName("launch");
id app = [SBApplication getAppWithBundleID:@"com.example.app"];
I'm curious about this. I'm familiar with reversing http api calls using a mitm proxy. But this ain't that.
Are they able to load a .so/dylib file during runtime and just call a method on it as long as they know the name of the method? How does iOS even allow that? How does an iOS even get to load those files? Seems like that would be locked down.
I think my previous comment came off a little combative. I am genuinely curious about your experience.
I fall somewhere in the indie-hacker/entrepreneur/not quite solo-preneur category and these tools have have provided a lot of value to me. I am maybe 3x more productive with them. They are definitely not without their flaws.
If you haven't tried cursor out, I recommend giving it a try
> LLMs and the rest of AI today are still not good enough to do any useful work, so it's all going down the same path as VR/AR
As a former AR/VR dev, this is a wild take to me. Have you used cursor? Have you ever had to write copyright for a website? Have you ever tried to learn something new or ideate with chatgpt?
When I was working on immersive apps, I would only ever pick up my device to do dev work. Very rarely would I pick it up outside of that (admittedly, I'm not really a gamer). But I use these new generation of AI tools many times a day.
I'd heard the story first hand from a guy in san jose. Never looked it up until now. This is the closest thing I could find to it. In which case it sounds like it's been debunked.
Re-reading that story is kind of wild. I don't know how valuable what they allegedly got would be (silicon, graphics and chipset files) but the hackers accused Nvidia of 'hacking back' and encrypting their data.
Reminds me of a story I heard about Nvidia hiring a private military to guard their cards after entire shipments started getting 'lost' somewhere in asia.
I remember Nvidia getting hacked pretty bad a few years ago. IIRC, the hackers threatened to release everything they had unless they open sourced their drivers. Maybe they got what they wanted.