If someone might want it different, it should not be a literal
Development covered 2 Aug 2026 to 6 Aug 2026 (commit dates). The rule this project has settled on is one question. Could somebody reasonably want th…
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Local-first saves and deciding which copy of the truth wins
Development covered 2 Aug 2026 to 4 Aug 2026 (commit dates). An idle game has to run on the player's device. The loop ticks while they are looking a…
Zero-Budget Web Dev: Moving from Discord/Drive to Google Sites
Welcome to part one! This is the start of a series where I’ll be posting about my webdev and HTML nightmares. I hope you enjoy the read as much as I…
Building NICHLYST: Explosions, Medication, and Rewriting 15 Days as a Novel You Can Fail
On Saturday evening, August 29th, I was lying on my sofa after eating way too much watermelon. I was taking a short break from writing the narrative…
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…
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…
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,…
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 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…
My analysis engine has two brains now
The thing I'm building, App Store Analyzer, is a website that does one thing: it reads an iOS niche and writes a deep market analysis for indie devs…
I built 3 Chrome extensions from scratch as a solo developer – here's what I learned (code included)
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A real bug you can't see - and one that fixed itself (Devlog #4)
Hey. No new feature this time - just a pass through the corners before the next one. We had a list of nine bugs we'd written down and kept walking p…
Game Prototyping: How to Find the Fun Before You Build the Wrong Thing
Most studios do not fail because the idea was bad. They fail because they spent too long on the wrong version of it. Prototyping fixes that. The Fou…
Indie Dev SaaS Launch — Pricing Strategy, Stripe Integration, and Freemium-to-Paid Design
Monetization is where most indie SaaS apps die. Not because the product is bad, but because the pricing is wrong, the freemium tier is too generous,…