What 166K Clicks Taught Me About Using AI for SEO
Over three months, my static website generated 166K Google clicks from 1.39M impressions , with an 11.9% CTR and 7.5 average position . The graph al…
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Stop Selling AI‑Sell The Outcome: Monetization Lessons For Indie Builders
Lots of independent developers jump onto the AI trend, build a chat wrapper, and expect users to pay. Almost always, that approach fails. Users will…
Free Is a Design Choice: Building a Board Game Platform Without Ads or Paywalls
-- title: "Free Is a Design Choice: Building a Board Game Platform Without Ads or Paywalls" description: "Why YiBoard runs on a free-forever model:…
I built a screen time blocker that has no account, no server, and no idea who you are
I was doomscrolling about three hours a day. Not "checking my phone a lot" — three hours, measured, on a screen time report I didn't want to look at…
Recruiting 12 Real Testers for Your Google Play Closed Test (Without Buying Them)
Buying testers fails three ways: Play's fraud detection flags dormant accounts , bought testers never open the app (so engagement doesn't count), an…
🏗️ Akhouri Systems: 4 apps, 1 thirteen-year-old kid, 0 employees
No co-founder. No funding. No backend team. Just a laptop, a lot of failed builds, and a name I gave myself: Akhouri Systems. Here's everything I've…
Build in Public Week 0: Resetting My Indie Strategy to ¥100K in 3 Months
TL;DR Goal : ¥100,000 ($670) in total revenue by 2026-07-16 Strategy : One Product Hunt launch on June 9, aiming $149 × 7 = ~¥105,000 Starting line…
Before you add more rooms: a six-gate playable-loop check for small RPG prototypes
Small dungeon-crawler prototypes often grow sideways. We add rooms, enemies, loot, and UI before proving that one short run is understandable and wo…
5 mistakes I made building my first Android app (and how I fixed them)
I'm not a developer. I build Android apps on evenings and weekends using AI coding assistants (GitHub Copilot and Claude). My latest app, ScorePop,…
Every Third-Party iOS Keyboard Is a Graveyard. So I Built a Voice Keyboard From Scratch in C++.
If you've searched the App Store for a reliable third-party QWERTY keyboard on iOS, you know how that ends. Some are abandoned. Some are ad-riddled.…
40 React Native Devs on What They Wish Their Boilerplate Fixed
I asked ~40 indie React Native devs one question: "What do you wish your boilerplate did differently?" Three wishes dominated: less opinionated navi…
Codogotchi just liberated your AI-agent status indicator
If you run more than one AI coding agent session at a time — three Claude Code threads on three tickets, a Codex session doing a refactor while Curs…
Every hand is solvable: engineering a block puzzle that never cheats
Block puzzles — the 8×8 "place three pieces, clear lines" genre — share a dirty secret: sometimes the game simply deals you pieces that cannot fit a…
What 74 ADRs in 70 days actually buy a solo dev (no hire, no clients, just the file)
The question you don't dare ask out loud It's 10:40 PM on a Tuesday, I just closed an ADR — the seventy-fourth in this setup, written conscientiousl…
Building AR Hide and Seek — Shipping a Solo Indie LiDAR Game to the App Store
The idea came from an extremely serious game of hide and seek with my cousins. We were adults, which made it ridiculous, but also strangely perfect.…
Why I Built My Own Licensing SDK Instead of Using Paddle
Originally published on the Keylight blog . A short founder note on why Keylight exists. Every product starts as somebody's unsolved problem; this i…
Migrate License Keys Without Breaking Existing Customers
Originally published on the Keylight blog . The thing that stops developers from moving their licensing isn't the work. It's the fear of one specifi…
One-Time vs Subscription Licensing: Which to Use?
Originally published on the Keylight blog . "Should I charge once or charge monthly?" is one of the first real decisions an indie app faces, and it…
Stripe vs Paddle vs Lemon Squeezy for Indie Developers
Originally published on the Keylight blog . If you are an indie developer about to charge for an app, you have three names in front of you: Stripe,…
Licensing a Cross-Platform App from One Control Plane
Originally published on the Keylight blog . If you ship the same product on more than one platform — a native Mac build, an Electron or Tauri deskto…
How to ship and sell a paid desktop app outside the app stores (2026)
You built a desktop app — macOS, Windows, Linux, native or Tauri/Electron — and you want to sell it directly instead of handing 15–30% to Apple or M…
How to add license keys to a SwiftUI macOS app (in under an hour)
You built a Mac app, you want to sell it outside the App Store, and now you need licensing: a key the customer enters, an activation that sticks, an…
I compared the licensing tools for my indie Mac app — the honest breakdown
I needed to license a macOS app I sell outside the App Store. I went down the rabbit hole so you don't have to. Here's the honest breakdown — what e…
How offline license activation actually works
If you ship a desktop app outside an app store, you eventually hit the same wall: how do you check a license when the user is on a plane, behind a c…
Adding Live Activities to a Pomodoro timer: what the docs don't tell you
A countdown timer is the perfect use case for Live Activities — and also a great way to discover everything the ActivityKit docs gloss over. When I…
How I auto-generate 800+ App Store screenshots across 39 languages and 3 devices
App Store screenshots are the highest-leverage marketing asset an app has — and the most painful to maintain. Now multiply that pain by 39 languages…
I shipped a Pomodoro app in 39 languages as a solo dev — here's how i18n actually went
Most indie apps ship in English, maybe add a handful of "big" languages later, and call it done. I went the other way: Cadento , my SwiftUI Pomodoro…
Players, Not Wallets
Somewhere in a glass tower, a meeting happened. The question on the slide wasn't "is this game fun." It was "how do we get them to spend again befor…
How I Built an Adversarial AI Council in React (and Why It Argues With You)
A local-first, single-file SPA where multiple agents debate your decision and hand you a verdict. The problem: every AI I asked just agreed with me…
I built an app where the AI invents its own generators
The premise started as a workplace joke: photograph someone and have an AI generate a fictional corporate manual about them. "Subject encountered in…