Khalid

Indie dev building in public. Shipping, failing, learning — repeat.

[Khalid @KhalidDevLog]

Day 1. Again.

This morning I woke up to a banned account.

2 months of daily posts. 400 followers. Every build in public update, every honest number, every late night shipping session. Gone.

I never spammed. I never broke rules. I just showed up every single day and documented the journey of building an app from zero.

I was supposed to post day 25 today. Instead I'm posting this.

And now I'm starting from zero. For real this time.

The followers are gone. The engagement is gone. The momentum I spent 2 months building is gone.

But here's what they couldn't take:

The app is still live on the App Store. The lessons are still in my head. The habits are still intact. And the reason I started is still the same.

I've been banned before from things I cared about. It hurts every time. But I know one thing about builders: we don't stop because the scoreboard resets. We just start keeping score again.

So here I am. New account. Same mission. Same app. Same commitment to showing up daily no matter what.

If you're reading this, follow along. You're early this time.

The rebuild starts now.

#buildinpublic #indiedev

[Khalid @KhalidDevLog]

Day 78 building Calinfo in public.

Downloads: 33
MRR: $0

751 impressions. 244 page views. 6.84% conversion rate. 17 updates shipped.

750 impressions crossed. Still 33 downloads.

The wall is real. So is the work.

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[Khalid @KhalidDevLog]

Day 77 building Calinfo in public.

Downloads: 33
MRR: $0

744 impressions. 244 page views. 6.93% conversion rate. 17 updates shipped.

77 days. The numbers are patient. I am more patient.

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[Khalid @KhalidDevLog]

@polsia This might be the best comment I have ever received. Saving this one 🙏

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Day 76 building Calinfo in public.

Downloads: 33
MRR: $0

742 impressions. 244 page views. 6.96% conversion rate. 17 updates shipped.

76 days. The impressions crossed 740. The downloads are waiting.

Not stopping. Not slowing down.

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[Khalid @KhalidDevLog]

@Sami_Hasan_ Calinfo helps people who eat out track calories without manually searching for nutrition info every time. Just find the restaurant, log the meal, done.

For analytics: App Store Connect, RevenueCat, and Supabase on the backend.

[Khalid @KhalidDevLog]

@MShaiz9 That is exactly the problem I need to solve. High intent traffic over volume any day. Drop the tool, I am all ears!

[Khalid @KhalidDevLog]

@hero_ui Great. React Native now has better charts.

[Khalid @KhalidDevLog]

I've never used TanStack before, but why are people switching from Nextjs to TanStack?

[Theo - t3.gg @theo]

Confirmed rewrite with Tanstack and a bunch of data precaching. Great work Anthropic! Claude site is finally usable

[Khalid @KhalidDevLog]

Day 75 building Calinfo in public.

Downloads: 33
MRR: $0

736 impressions. 243 page views. 7.05% conversion rate. 17 updates shipped.

75 days. Still building Calinfo. Started a new app on the side.

Two projects. One builder. The streak continues.

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[Khalid @KhalidDevLog]

Day 74 building Calinfo in public.

Downloads: 33
MRR: $0

736 impressions. 243 page views. 7.05% conversion rate. 17 updates shipped.

Apple says today's data is delayed. But the streak is not.

74 days. Still here.

#buildinpublic #indiedev #makerslog

[Khalid @KhalidDevLog]

@adahstwt I'm with Claude's team, but if they mess things up, I'll switch to Codex.

[Khalid @KhalidDevLog]

I think Codex with GPT 5.5 is better than Opus 4.8

[Khalid @KhalidDevLog]

🚀 Design AI just crossed 160+ GitHub stars.

The repository now contains DESIGN.md files from 178 companies and products, helping AI coding agents understand real design systems instead of guessing UI decisions.

Colors, typography, spacing, components, design rules, and brand patterns all structured in a format AI can actually use.

⭐ 160+ Stars
🏢 178 Companies
📚 Open-source DESIGN.md collection

Building one of the largest libraries of AI-readable design systems.

GitHub: https://t.co/GSrTbR28xj

#AI #DesignSystems #ClaudeCode #CursorAI #OpenSource #BuildInPublic

[Khalid @KhalidDevLog]

Day 73 building Calinfo in public.

Downloads: 33
MRR: $0

734 impressions. 243 page views. 7.06% conversion rate. 17 updates shipped.

734 impressions. 33 downloads.

The gap keeps growing. The mission stays the same.

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[Khalid @KhalidDevLog]

Day 72 building Calinfo in public.

Downloads: 33 MRR: $0
721 impressions. 243 page views. 7.21% conversion rate. 17 updates shipped.

72 days. The numbers are moving slowly but they are moving.

721 impressions and still building.

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[Khalid @KhalidDevLog]

Day 71 building Calinfo in public.

Downloads: 33
MRR: $0

716 impressions. 241 page views. 7.29% conversion rate. 17 updates shipped.

Download 33 finally came in. Small win but a real one.

And today I started working on a new app.

Two projects. One builder. Let's see where this goes.

#buildinpublic #indiedev #makerslog

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Claude Design now shares usage limits with @claudeai and Claude Code.

[Khalid @KhalidDevLog]

Day 14 :A website every developer should know

🔗 squoosh

Compress and resize images directly in your browser. No uploads to external servers. See the before and after side by side.

Heavy images kill performance. This fixes that.

#webdev #indiedev #devtools

[Khalid @KhalidDevLog]

I noticed something about claude code :

it doesn't know how to handle some very small problems. For example, I had a registration page that required me to add a Google login option, but claude code didn't know how to add the logo instead, it was creating one itself.

[Khalid @KhalidDevLog]

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