Yahya

Solo indie app dev · android games & SEO sites
📱 apps → $3K/m
🔎 SEO sites → $500/m each
zero ads · build in public to $100K/m

[Yahya @Tajine1x]

"is this on android ?"

that's the #1 question an ios dev with thousands of downloads keeps getting

this is why i went android first . more people ask for it , way fewer devs bother shipping it

and for me android earns more than ios . nobody believes that till they try

[Yahya @Tajine1x]

web search for ai apps just got stupid cheap

deepseek now sells search + fetch for $0.75 per 1000 requests

for indie devs adding ai features that's huge . search used to be the expensive part

the cost of shipping an "ai app" keeps going to zero . distribution doesn't 😂

[Yahya @Tajine1x]

apple just made hidden features in your binary their own rule (2.5.19) . forgotten debug switches = rejection or worse

surviving google play terminations taught me one thing : stores don't care about intent

strip every debug flag before you ship 💀
https://t.co/fG1G7l2ed2

[Luka Shaw @vovalukashov]

Apple can now delete your whole developer account for a feature hidden in your binary. On Friday it became a separate rule, 2.5.19.

Apple already rejected one of my apps for this. I'd left three testing switches in the release build: screenshots-mode, slow-entitlement, UnlockedMockPurchases. Nobody could reach them from the App Store, but Apple wrote that they "appear to have been intentionally hidden".

Now I run strings on every archive before I upload.

[Yahya @Tajine1x]

@adamlyttleapps the screens get cloned in a weekend . the distribution doesn't

[Yahya @Tajine1x]

imagine losing every domain you own because of one email 💀

12 years with namecheap . he missed a 72h id verification email while away and they disabled everything

i run 3 seo sites doing ~$200/day . that could be me

go check your registrar inbox today . not tomorrow

[Yahya @Tajine1x]

pov : you spend 4 days building a library just so the android camera opens in one line 💀

camera . open { picture -> }

most android dev thing ever . we don't fix the platform , we wrap it until it stops hurting

[Yahya @Tajine1x]

@artembolotov @twinkey_app once your account builds some trust with google ,
updates start going through in under 3 hours for me

first few releases are always the slow ones . is this one of your early updates ?

[Yahya @Tajine1x]

@matthias_mrc disagree a bit , you dont need to know full code , you need to know when its time to hire someone who does . vibe code the MVP , hire when real users and money start

[Yahya @Tajine1x]

after losing google play dev accounts , a "policy violation" email don't scare me anymore . you reply , you appeal , you keep building

[Yahya @Tajine1x]

i waited 5 months to put my app on google play after iOS 💀

now android make more money than iOS for me . i really underestimated it

android is so underrated for indie devs

[Yahya @Tajine1x]

@109mae dark mode not a priority , they too busy terminating accounts 💀

[Yahya @Tajine1x]

@SergiuszBuilds trial cancel is normal

[Yahya @Tajine1x]

@frederickjames good luck tomorrow !

[Yahya @Tajine1x]

@CodyBontecou Product Hunt at least gave you a badge , these directories just want your server to rank their own site

[Yahya @Tajine1x]

my 3 SEO sites make around $200/day with zero ads , slow but it's mine . google can change everything with one update tho

keep waiting on SEO or start paying for ads to go faster ?

[Yahya @Tajine1x]

usually its google and epic who say no to indie devs , today a indie game studio said no to fortnite because of AI . funny how the power change !? https://t.co/XLs1OwmPZo

[Backers @BackersGamesF]

A ULTRAKILL x FORTNITE COLLAB IS LIKELY NEVER HAPPENING DUE TO AI

A fan asked New Blood to bring Ultrakill to Fortnite and they responded "No they use AI"

[0xMarioNawfal @RoundtableSpace]

A developer who says he's not a game dev built Riposte, a browser FPS, with Claude Code and three.js in about a month.

→ Weapons, characters and maps are all generated in code
→ No Blender, no imported models
→ Physics on props, cloth and water
→ Built to run on PC, phone and controller

The cost breakdown is the useful part:

→ Started on the €20/month plan and kept hitting limits
→ Switched many tasks to Sonnet 5.5 to stretch it
→ Moved to the €90/month plan in October and never hit the limit
→ No extra credits bought

One tip: Claude Code started spinning up parallel agents for everything, so he told it to stop in the project instructions.

It's free to play in the browser.

https://t.co/gfYmR5Jn6X

Reddit: https://t.co/Q6b2RAqQfG

[Yahya @Tajine1x]

@marclou public metrics with small numbers is brave . my 3 SEO sites went from $14 to $200/day and at $14 nothing looked real either 😂

[Yahya @Tajine1x]

indie game devs now cancel their own demo so AI can't clone the game before launch 💀 same reason i stopped showing my apps , copying became too cheap https://t.co/Ucosps7sJq

[Pirat_Nation 🔴 @Pirat_Nation]

A developer canceled a planned public demo over worries that AI could copy the game and release a clone first.

Drunken Goddess Reflux was set for a public demo on October 19. Alliance Arts will instead run a closed playtest with restrictions on sharing and streaming.

The studio says the issue goes beyond piracy. They fear players could study the demo’s gameplay and presentation, then use AI to clone it

“We are concerned that… works imitating or replicating this game’s presentation and gameplay could be quickly produced using AI or other tools and released ahead of the game’s launch.”

[Yahya @Tajine1x]

@RobertLibsansky wait for the tax interview part 😂 taxes always the worst part of being solo dev for me