Solo developer. I build privacy-first software: on-device AI where it is possible, no accounts where they are not needed, and nothing sketchy with your data.
Shipped so far:
Logiqura: three brain games in one, fully offline (iOS)
ParsleyPDF: chat with your PDFs, AI running on the phone itself (iOS)
Vaely: a private health journal you talk to (iOS)
Pavloria: bulk product photos, cut and sized on the phone (iOS)
Noryvela: checks your FBA labels against the shipping plan, and keeps the record (iOS)
Stylewright: pull any site's design system into code (Chrome)
Backfrey: make any screenshot look designed (Chrome)
Everything lives here: https://t.co/CTz5im1joY
Follow along. Most days I post what actually happened, not what I wish had.
App Store: https://t.co/L2MjUwRPU6
Listed as Vaely: Symptom Tracker & Diary. Logging is free with no limit, and the Doctor Report is a PDF you hand to the doctor.
The on-device model in Vaely is only there on iPhones with Apple Intelligence, and the app says so instead of pretending otherwise. On those phones it pulls the symptom, the severity, the medication and the mood out of what you said and shows them for you to check before the entry goes in. On every other iPhone the words are saved as you said them and you set the severity yourself.
Retention is not a line I get to work on for most of what I ship. A one-time unlock on six of the seven products, so the sale is the whole relationship and there is no month two to lose. ParsleyPDF sells a $4.99 monthly beside its $29.99 lifetime, and Vaely is the one pure subscription, because a symptom journal is the only thing I ship that is meant to be opened every day.
Three of my apps run a model on the phone. Noryvela is the one where I kept it out on purpose. It reads each FNSKU label with Apple's Vision framework, plain barcode detection, and checks it against the shipping plan, because a verification record that guesses is worth nothing to the seller holding it when Amazon says the box came in under the wrong code. No server behind it, one purchase.
@jofawole Both of the last two apps I shipped are for Amazon and Etsy sellers, people who have never read a build in public post, and that was the point.
@Vikas_Bablani The after-submit data is already there, App Store Connect shows product page views and downloads day by day, the slow part is that Pavloria was renamed on the store ten days ago and I still cannot tell what it did.
@GBomberGaming Cleaner, agreed, and the compromise I landed on was free with ads plus one Remove Ads purchase and nothing else for sale, a hint in Logiqura is a rewarded video you ask for, never a pack.
@sm_salmaan Seven apps on the store and the truest tweet I have is that Pavloria 1.0 shipped a touch-up brush that painted on the screen and never into the file.
@_Kanevry Backfrey splits the same way, background and shadow free and the frames and presets a one-time Pro, and I have never once been tempted to make the free half worse to sell the other.
@EthanLipnik Vaely's Watch app shipped last week on three of the iPhone app's five Swift packages, which is the only reason one person could ship it at all.
@LiuTina555 ParsleyPDF's answer is that the model is Apple's and runs on the phone, so if I vanish tomorrow the app keeps answering questions about your PDFs.
@ahmedashour8_@cesaralvarezll That chain is the one I read, and it is enough for the only question I have this month, whether renaming Pavloria to Background Remover on the store moved its product page views.
@tablow_dev Your billing-first rule is the half I would keep, the server half I cannot borrow, there is no server on my side to flip a setting on and every fix in the five iOS apps goes out only through App Review.
Most of the design work in Backfrey went into the first render. Drop a screenshot in and it already has a background, padding, rounded corners and a layered shadow before you touch a control. The controls are there for people who want to argue with that default. Free with no watermark, in Chrome. The frames and the presets are the one-time Pro.