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), and …
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🏗️ 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 s…
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 wort…
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, is…
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 any…
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 conscientiously,…
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 is …
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 specific …
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 is…
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, Pa…
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 desktop …
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 …
Comparison pages that say where the competition wins Devlog #3
Hey. Different kind of update this time. The last stretch of work wasn't on the editor, it was on the website, and I went back and forth on whether th…
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 Four …
Post-Mortem: How My Web Game Hit 130k MAU with $0 Marketing (and Survived an AdSense Ban)
A transparent case study on indie game growth: from accidental multi-language localization to a successful B2B pivot in the US market, and scaling rev…
Best Game Economy Design Tools for Modern Game Teams
Game economy design has a tooling problem. Every other design discipline has dedicated software, UI designers use Figma, project managers use Jira, en…
I built my daughter a geography app. It took 67 days and zero dependencies.
Two months ago, I started building an iOS app for my daughter. This week, I shipped it. MapSprout is a US geography app for kids — they learn the 50 s…