Andrey Alekseenko

Building products people pay for and the AI factory behind them.

10+ years of mobile apps, 1M downloads.

[Andrey Alekseenko @createev]

Started building finance apps in 2014 (https://t.co/PqYWYClq8n). Creative itch, as simple as that.

10+ apps since. Killed half. Rewrote the rest more times than I'd like to admit.

Now building an AI factory to grow these and build what's next.

Posting how it goes.

[Andrey Alekseenko @createev]

@framara Still juggling but now all on desktop/mobile. No cli anymore.

Different niches: Claude for new and iterative, cursor for complex technical, grok bot as orchestrator for cloud cursors for “factory-like” process…

[Andrey Alekseenko @createev]

@starter_story The pain is sharper in a small niche. Serve it well and you get a chance.

Been serving small specific niches in personal finance for the last 10 years, like savings goals. I've been thanked (and paid) many times for actually caring about the problem.

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The bar will also get higher. It's like with home appliances - everyone thought they would free people from housework. What they did instead was raise expectations: cleaner dishes, cleaner house etc.

Seeing the same with my finance apps: people expect flawless design, advanced reporting and modern UX even for something as niche as savings goals.

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@BucharaYT Limited freemium has been working well so far. Got to 1M downloads across my finance apps this way. Thousands of customers, but mostly one-time purchases.

Experimenting with trials on some apps now. We'll see.

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@jakecastilloooo Yeah... fighting churn in Bills, one of my apps, right now. Preliminary conclusion: it's too late to win back the ones who've already left (zero returns), but not too late to keep the ones who stay happy, so they don't.

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@DivyanshT91162 Will look closely. Ended up with the same architecture in SFA Ops, an ops layer for my business: workflows in YAML, agent roles with access rights, a human approval gate. So much fun.

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@glfceo Let's not be hard on ourselves!) Give us engineers a few more moments of feeling like creators. Agents will come and fix things anyway.

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I gave up on sticking to one, tbh. What I found though is that different coding agents are best for different tasks:

- Claude Code desktop: new and complex projects that need quick iterations
- Cursor: complex bug fixing and feature tuning
- Cursor cloud: tasks driven by my Grok bot
- Muse: not sure what niche it'll take yet, we'll see...

[Andrey Alekseenko @createev]

@Evan_Swanson_ As someone with a portfolio of tiny apps, this is music to my ears 💯

Take debt payoff: the pain is huge and universal, the tools are still bad. Anything better than average has a real shot.

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https://t.co/fbqFRSoPyw

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Google approved Dues: Cancel Subscriptions. It's live on Google Play now.

My feed has been full of horror stories about blocked developer accounts ever since I posted that I'd submitted. Read them all, and now I'm a bit nervous, even though it's probably my 100th submission.

Apple still thinking... They've always been more thorough, or maybe it's just volume? Link👇

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Giving my factory a dedicated space - a server, a gateway, an interface.

The key upgrade: deterministic workflows - no more "my bad, that's on me" conversations with agents.

Now there are hard gates, defined workflows, tools and quality bars.

Migrating simple workflows first. Will keep you posted.

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@fordsmith mind-blowing

[Andrey Alekseenko @createev]

I like playing with Opus 5.5 on graphics so much these days. My latest: a new X banner with a "Dues coming soon" mark.

As an engineer and an entrepreneur, I have been waiting for these times to come, when I am finally able to make something beautiful on my own.

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@DanielStormApps Thanks! Good luck with your journey.

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@SebastianRoehl Just submitted one for my new app: both header and search result.

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@mudassar6969 Fingers crossed 🤞. Funny times…

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@MaxHirsch13 Wow. Never faced any of this in my first 10 years with mobile apps… new times!

Just submitted Dues: Cancel Subscriptions app - it enters into existing niche (which one is not??) with established apps already there.

We’ll see what apple has to say this time.

[Andrey Alekseenko @createev]

@Ivan_Borovets Really great point, Ivan. Thanks! How did you end up creating feedback channel?

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Just submitted Dues: Cancel Subscriptions to Apple review. Not my first app, but still somehow thrilling.

The idea is simple: fully private, no bank connection. Find, analyze and cancel your subscriptions.

First thing it found for me: £360 a year on LinkedIn. Why???

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Yeah, real numbers sell. Testing my new subscription app, the first thing it found in my own data was £360 a year on LinkedIn. Why do I pay this??

A friend who tested it found two subs at £20 a month he'd forgotten about.

Both within the first minute. Not to plug it, just to make the point.