Article · Jul 28, 2026
5 Apps in 12 Months: Building Was Easy, Marketing Was the Real Boss Fight
One year, five shipped apps, two stores. The biggest lesson: code is only 20% of the indie hacking equation.
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A place for my thoughts and writings on engineering, product work, and shipping software.
Article · Jul 8, 2026
Building Native iOS Widgets in Managed Expo Without Losing Your Mind
How I shipped native iOS home screen widgets in a managed Expo app using Config Plugins and shared local-first storage.
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Article · Jul 4, 2026
How I built a unified, local-first bridge for Apple HealthKit and Google Health Connect in Expo
A clean design pattern for unifying HealthKit and Health Connect behind a single abstract React hook.
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Article · Apr 24, 2026
The Math of Motivation: Implementing Snowball vs. Avalanche Algorithms in React Native
How building TinyDebt taught me that mathematically optimal code often fails the human test.
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Article · Mar 30, 2026
Deploying My Expo Apps to the App Store - Lessons Learned
A step-by-step guide from Apple Developer enrollment to hitting Submit for Review.
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Article · Feb 4, 2026
Deploying my Expo apps to Google Play - lessons learned
A walkthrough of the surprises, fixes, and lessons from shipping two Expo apps to the Google Play Store.
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Article · Dec 27, 2025
Migrating my Expo apps from Supabase to Firebase - what I learned
How and why I moved TinyRecipe and TinyDebt from Supabase to Firebase, and what surprised me along the way.
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Article · Nov 26, 2025
I built TinyDebt - a minimal debt-tracking app (no backend, instant syncing)
A look at the technical decisions behind TinyDebt: local-first storage, no backend, and a calm UI that gets out of your way.
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