Alex Chernikov - Notes from Gikken

Tokens is getting acquired

To our beloved iOS and macOS developer community – Tokens will no longer be a Gikken product starting from next week. It's not shutting down. It will stay fully operational and hopefully will become an even more polished product. Adam Yarnold of MetaVentures acquires it.

Breaks for Eyes is shutting down

Update from February 9th, 2021: Breaks for Eyes has found a new owner! I'm extremely thrilled to announce that Alex Greene has just taken it over and will continue its development and maintenance. Alex is a software developer from San Francisco who, like many

Reji is shutting down

To our beloved language learners across the world—we are crushed to announce that Reji will be no more starting from March 31, 2021. Why? In a nutshell, Team Gikken has decided to shift focus to our most popular product: Mate Translate. Reji simply

Tokens 2

Subscription Offer Codes—Untapped Marketing Potential for your iOS Apps

Your beautiful app deserves more subscribers, do you agree? If so, there's good news. Offer Codes can help you convert more of your free users into paying. If you're interested in streamlining the money-making part of your engineering marvel, I invite you to dive

Tokens 2

Making Tokens 2: A tale of app revival and organic launch

How do small, bootstrapped companies launch new products? It depends, but I want to tell about Gikken's journey from buying the iconic Mac app for iOS + macOS developers, to conducting user interviews, to designing a new version from scratch, to deciding on pricing, and

Gikken

Twopeople Software became Gikken

After 4 prolific years, Twopeople Software shut down in 2019 to give life to Gikken. Learn how and why.

Indie Life

Why you should make your paid app free for one day

We have two apps that are feeding us. One (Mac) is $29.99, the other one (iOS) is $9.99. Both are one-off purchases. It's rather an old-school business model nowadays – to sell apps upfront without subscription – but it works the best for us

Tokens 2

We acquired Tokens

Tokens is an app that makes generating promo codes for iOS and macOS apps extraordinarily easy. It's also extremely well-known in the Apple developer community. Unfortunately, it gained the reputation of abandonware in recent years. And there's a reason for that. It was barely

Mate

We're removing 3rd-party login from Mate

To protect your privacy, Facebook and Google SDKs have been completely removed from Mate. You can now create a native account to sync securely across devices.