Tiny Night Market is done
Our third game, a cozy idle night market that lives above your taskbar, is done. While you work, the stalls cook, sell and grow on their own. When y…
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Four rounds of review on my own work, and what each caught
Development covered 4 Sep 2026 to 6 Sep 2026 (commit dates). Working alone means nobody hands your change back. Review is not something that happens…
Hiding what a player cannot use yet, without hiding the quest
Development covered 30 Aug 2026 to 4 Sep 2026 (commit dates). Progression games accumulate lists. As Myriad Immortal Sect filled out, the market, th…
1,826 draw calls to put 61 objects on the screen
Development covered 15 Aug 2026 to 17 Aug 2026 (commit dates). Players of Myriad Immortal Sect walk a continent that streams in around them as they…
I built a period tracker that never asks for an account
This week I shipped the first public version of Mori, an Android period tracker. The product rule I started with was simple: no account, ever, for t…
I built an immune system for my one-person SaaS (so it survives while I sleep)
I run two production sites as a one-person operation. My execution environment (a sandboxed VM) hard-restarts without warning — every process dies,…
Ten hours unattended: what a long job needs to survive alone
Development covered 5 Aug 2026 to 7 Aug 2026 (commit dates). A lot of the work on this project runs overnight with nobody watching. The job plays th…
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…
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…
Porting Cowboy Casino to VileEngine
I am moving Cowboy Casino into VileEngine, the C++ engine I use for retro games. Cowboy Casino is a small role-playing game about walking into a wil…
Reach as a stat, and other ways to make a map behave like a place
Development covered 2 Aug 2026 to 6 Aug 2026 (commit dates). The overworld had been finished for a while in the sense that it worked. You could walk…
Explore real cities in ALIS — play release 2.0.0
Explore real cities in ALIS — play release 2.0.0 For players: Pick Kazan or Manhattan right from the main menu Fly over vast city territories with f…
I Built InfoHUD Pro – Floating Desktop HUDs for Windows
I recently released InfoHUD Pro, a Windows utility designed to keep important information visible while you work. It lets you create floating deskto…
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…
We Built Kolaboratr Because Finding the Right People to Build With Shouldn’t Be This Hard
There’s a pattern we keep seeing across indie development and creative communities. One person posts: “I have a project, but I need an artist.” A pr…
Building NICHLYST: How to Code a Survival Engine When You Are Failing to Survive
Building NICHLYST: How to Code a Survival Engine When You Are Failing to Survive I track everything. It is an occupational habit of a systems archit…
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…
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…
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.…