Hi, I'm Tyler

I'm a programmer and designer in Philadelphia, PA. I work at Altruist on their trading platform, specializing in bringing new asset classes to market. This is my home on the web. I'm also occasionally present on Bluesky as @rkrt.net, where I post about my projects and interests.

Guiding Users Reviews: Better Prompting in iOS

Over the past few years, as I have published multiple projects to the iOS app store, one of the most difficult aspects post-launch has been soliciting user feedback intelligently. As part of the development of my latest app, Solar, I wrote a simple review engine with the goal of solving this problem. It's smart about when it asks, focusing on those "happy path" moments when your users are genuinely enjoying your app.

I've now open-sourced that engine and it's available on Github as HappyPath.

HappyPath keeps track of a few key things in UserDefaults:

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