KovsMakesApps

I build small iPhone apps & SaaS tools for everyday problems. Testing ideas in public ↓

[KovsMakesApps @kovsmakesapps]

I'm an indie dev who likes shipping small apps and seeing what happens.

I build iOS apps, SaaS, AI tools and the occasional weird experiment.

I'll share:

→ what I'm building
→ launch numbers
→ Apple Ads / ASO experiments
→ things that completely fail
→ lessons from actually shipping
Currently starting from basically 0 on X.
Let's see where this goes. 👋

[KovsMakesApps @kovsmakesapps]

@dhh @EpicGames @omarchy @TimSweeneyEpic Awesome work! Could we also get EA on board with their Javelin anti-cheat?

Competitive FPS and online multiplayer games are pretty much the last things holding me back from switching completely.

If we can solve that, this could truly be the year of the Linux desktop!

[KovsMakesApps @kovsmakesapps]

@dhh This is exactly why Linux has struggled. Attitudes like this only make things worse. Keep politics out of open source.

[KovsMakesApps @kovsmakesapps]

@unclebobmartin Thank you uncle bob !

[KovsMakesApps @kovsmakesapps]

@theo True

[KovsMakesApps @kovsmakesapps]

Introducing Meali. No food database, no barcode scanner. Just write what you ate, and it turns the sentence into calories and macros you can edit. On the App Store: https://t.co/PV1GiqFpkA

[lauren @poteto]

here's how i shipped 2,500 PRs last month to production

this was originally supposed to be for Cursor Compile in London. i couldn't make it since i was livestreaming for Grok @Bot Galaxy so i'm making it available for free here on X! watch it on 2x speed, i talk slowly

[KovsMakesApps @kovsmakesapps]

@SKatalystAI Hey Sinda, lets connect

[KovsMakesApps @kovsmakesapps]

@Elizaveta_ai Bonjour ! lets connect 😃

[Charles Curran @charliebcurran]

I used AI to explain the AI pacing drama, with fruit.

[KovsMakesApps @kovsmakesapps]

@DevAfter5 Let’s connect! I’m around your age too ��� it’s never too late to become an indie dev 🚀

[KovsMakesApps @kovsmakesapps]

@LiviaKissDesign Congrats, lets connect.

[KovsMakesApps @kovsmakesapps]

Indie developer 👋

I build apps, games & AI tools and probably start way too many projects 😅

Looking to connect with more developers and builders here.

Say hi 👇

[KovsMakesApps @kovsmakesapps]

@Ferm0s Advantage 2, I have two: one at home and one at my workplace.

[KovsMakesApps @kovsmakesapps]

@netadror Hey also from IL let’s connect ✌️

[Mark Zuckerberg @finkd]

Last month I wrote about how we can build a positive and safe future for everyone: https://t.co/eoLGVY8yad

Every lab has the responsibility and incentive to move at the pace required to train its models safely, and the ability to take its own actions to ensure that happens.

The reality is:

- People won't want to use agents that are misaligned with them and that don't do what they ask, so labs have a strong natural incentive to make their models more aligned.

There is a lot of debate about slowing progress on capabilities until alignment catches up. My view is that trust and alignment are quickly becoming the most important capabilities that will differentiate agents and models. Any lab that doesn't focus on alignment will fall behind.

- Labs face significant liability if their models cause harm, so they have a strong incentive to prevent this as well.

Meta delayed shipping Muse for several months to focus on safety and security. We didn't call for everyone else to do this before we would. We just did it as part of our day-to-day work because it was clearly the right thing for people and for us. I'm proud of the security foundations we've built.

- Engaging independent evaluators and advisors is industry best practice. MSL already does this today in several areas because it helps produce better work. Other labs can just do this too. In general, it would be helpful for there to be a larger and more diverse ecosystem of evaluators.

- Committing the significant majority of compute towards serving people rather than racing towards recursive self-improvement is one of the best ways to ensure we develop this technology safely. Meta has made this commitment and other labs can do this as well.

I believe the key to building a positive future for everyone is maintaining the right balance of power. This is within our power to do.

[KovsMakesApps @kovsmakesapps]

@dhh You also forgot about the CRA, which is also due in December 2027. The number of requirements is simply overwhelming.

[DHH @dhh]

Nous has some of the best damn visuals and brand wizards in the game. Absolutely perfect fit for where we're going with Omarchy!

[DHH @dhh]

Omarchy now has the coolest website I've ever seen. Truly incredible work by the Omarchy website design team lead by @BarisGirismen. This is what computers can look (and sound) like! https://t.co/2Bb7BOA74N

[DHH @dhh]

Omarchy is blowing up. I've never been involved with anything in my career that has grown this fast. With Ruby on Rails, we had years to build solid institutions, teams, and relationships. With Omarchy, we've been forced to figure it all out in twelve days. It's exhausting, but also incredibly exciting.

It was never sustainable with just Ryan and me running everything. That's how it was, more or less, up until Quattro. Lots of other contributors, but all the responsibility was on us to make sure the ship stayed afloat, the servers didn't crash, and fixes got pushed out quickly.

Now it's time to build a proper institution. Durable, resilient, and competent. That's what we're doing here on Basecamp now. I'm spinning up teams for every facet of responsible distro management, and I'm getting an absolute outpouring of interest for all of them. Everyone wants to be part of this. We're winning hearts, minds, and volunteers at an astounding rate. Great! We need all of it to succeed.

Because make no mistake: There are many people who'd love to see this rocket blow up before it reaches the moon. Aggrieved Linux users who don't like the sudden attention their exclusive hobby has received. Competing Linux distributions that are seeing our numbers explode. Mac stans who've sunk their identity into an apple. And, of course, any of the haters I've picked up in my quarter-century career speaking bluntly on the internet.

They're not going to succeed. Because we've already become unstoppable. There's too much momentum, too much money, and too much support now backing this effort. We're living the Mandate From Heaven meme at the moment. And we are here to fulfill the prophecy: The Year of Linux on the Desktop!

That has been a joke for two decades. But by the end of the year, nobody at Apple or Microsoft is going to be laughing. They're going to be scrambling. Because neither of these proud organizations currently has any method to counter the speed, vision, or ambition with which we're going to accelerate into the future of personal computing.

This is the moment. This is the opening. This is our chance.

For thirty years, we've been subject to one OS overlord or another. Dictating how we compute. Choking off competitors through platform malfeasance. Tollboothing the distribution. That ends now. Because Linux is going to win. And Linux is free. As in beer, speech, and source.

But just because it's inevitable doesn't mean it's going to be easy. We have a lot of work in front of us if we actually want to make our mark. But there's never been a better time for this kind of delusional ambition. The age of agents is the unlocking factor. It sounds like a LinkedIn slogan, but it's true. Where the application of tokens goes, the innovation follows.

We can fix everything.

Let's do it together.

Let's go.

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This is what I sent to the dozens of new volunteers who've signed up for teams within the new Omarchy organization yesterday. But we might as well broadcast our mission and intentions to the world too.