--- title: Medium | daily.dev description: A former erotic photographer with 600k Instagram followers shares his journey from social media success and crypto gains to rebuilding his life through... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/medium-sdzxkbkdy twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Medium | daily.dev og:description: A former erotic photographer with 600k Instagram followers shares his journey from social media success and crypto gains to rebuilding his life through... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/medium-sdzxkbkdy og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/sdzXKbKDy.png og:image:alt: Medium og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Medium **[Medium](https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js)** · 4 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A former erotic photographer with 600k Instagram followers shares his journey from social media success and crypto gains to rebuilding his life through programming at School 42 in Paris. After struggling with excessive phone use, he conceived an iOS app that forces users into 1-2 day no-charging challenges to create physical screen time limits. With near-zero iOS experience, he used LLMs to learn development, navigated a failed co-founder partnership, and eventually got the app into TestFlight beta. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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