A solo developer building small apps after work — and writing down what the process actually taught me.
Apps that paint in 0.2 seconds on our machine were rejected for taking over 20 seconds to open. The first cause was outbound requests during the first paint. After fixing that they were rejected ag...
Our Instagram account had 27 posts and not one video. The gameplay clips recorded for YouTube Shorts were already sitting there, so we re-cut all of them into Reels. Here is what mattered — why 1.5...
An endless jumper with jetpacks, springs, shields and magnets, tilt controls, a collection screen and power-ups you can switch off, now on Google Play and Apps in Toss
Two AI levels, one playing on pure luck and one reading the patterns in your hands, plus two-player matches on a single phone and TOP 10 streaks per level, now on Google Play and Apps in Toss
A timing stacker where every tap adds a floor, with power-ups you can switch off, separate records for height and score, and a cash-out button, now on Google Play and Apps in Toss
The real reason the brick-breaker ball crawled was that I measured a hidden element and got a height of 1px. In the slide puzzle, the same finger motion that placed the last tile also pressed the b...
Pong with three AI difficulties, local two-player on one phone and an arcade mode with power-ups you can switch off, now on Google Play and Apps in Toss
The classic 15 puzzle with a picture mode, a completion reveal, a daily board and auto-save, now on Google Play and Apps in Toss
I had built 29 apps and still left the road to them blocked. Store links were missing from 24 of 27 Instagram posts and 20 of 27 YouTube videos, and the Toss link appeared in none of the 54. While ...
The video on a store listing is a per-language field. Locale counts differ by app — 2, 17, or 29 — and through the console web each language took 12 to 15 seconds, while the Korean field sometimes ...