YangDev

Solo iOS dev feeding my family with offline, one-time-paid, no-ad apps: LocalToolbox · Freight Note · SleepNote · DualFrame Cam · and more 👇

[YangDev @yang_dev_app]

March 2026: I bet on one thing — a living from code, built alone, with a family to feed.
Six months in: no team, no funding, no ads, no plan B. Just mornings in App Store Connect and nights wondering if it is working.
Not there yet. But this is what feeds my family ↓

[YangDev @yang_dev_app]

@SantanaFrost17 Appreciate it. The chores end. The tabs don't. That's basically the whole app.

[YangDev @yang_dev_app]

Running a home isn't the chores. It's the tabs you keep open in your head: what's running low, what to buy, what we spent this month, what's due today.

I built one offline app to close all four. 939 first-time downloads in 90 days.

#buildinpublic

[YangDev @yang_dev_app]

管一个家最累的不是家务，是脑子里一直开着的那几个标签页：什么快用完了、今天买什么、这个月花了多少、哪件事不能忘。

我把这四件事放进了一个离线 App。最近 90 天，939 次首次下载。

#独立开发

[YangDev @yang_dev_app]

939 first-time downloads in 90 days. The number I actually care about: whether it gets opened on a normal Tuesday, not just during setup.

What's the one household thing you're tired of keeping in your head?

https://t.co/RaAGvY08hJ

[YangDev @yang_dev_app]

Family data is some of the most sensitive data on your phone. So the app has no account, no cloud, no analytics, no ads.

Everything stays on the device, with an optional passcode lock. Pay once; no subscription.

[YangDev @yang_dev_app]

Home Manager is one screen for the household admin:
· low stock → shopping list → refill stock
· monthly spend + recurring bills
· today's chores
· the dates and notes you can't drop

No setup wizard.

[洛克船长 @slashui]

看到"逆向任何 iOS 应用"这口气，我还以为是反编译 App 的黑科技，点进去一看，原来是三套给 AI 用的 skill 😂

不过看完觉得真挺有价值，还是推荐一下：

🎨 Appllama Skills：让 AI 先研究同类畅销 App 的每一屏，再照着这个水准做界面

⚙️ Expo 官方 Skills：路由、原生 UI、打包上架，官方经验直接装进 AI

✨ Emil Kowalski Skills：5 万星，专治 AI 没品味，动画和细节一次教对

标题夸张了点，东西是真好。做 App 的朋友可以装上试试。

[Tinyfool @tinyfool]

我给自己的 App 做了一轮 ASO：
从只跟踪几个词，到找出上百个相关关键词；从几乎没有词排在前列，到多个词排到第一，绝大多数进入前十，核心关键词上升超过 200 位。

我把具体方法整理成了指南：用 Astro、Google Trends 和 ChatGPT 选词、写文案、做截图、看效果。步骤具体，欢迎大家批评指正
https://t.co/5RF6dgvauK

[Yihui @yihui_indie]

太干了，基本把自己做产品的底裤都给分享出来了！ https://t.co/sYYq9eOFk0

[YangDev @yang_dev_app]

On iPhone Duo, the book unfolds: list on the left, detail on the right, tabs up the spine.
Echo: Anniversary
#buildinpublic #iPhoneDuo #iOS

[YangDev @yang_dev_app]

Made this intro video with AI.
For my app Echo: Anniversary — an iPhone memory book that never goes online.
No accounts. No cloud. Gesture lock; passwords self-clear in 60s.
On iPhone Duo it unfolds: list left, detail right, tabs on the spine. #indiedev #Echo: Anniversary

[YangDev @yang_dev_app]

Made this intro video with AI.
For my app Echo: Anniversary — an iPhone memory book that never goes online.
No accounts. No cloud. Gesture lock; passwords self-clear in 60s.
On iPhone Duo it unfolds: list left, detail right, tabs on the spine. #indiedev #Echo: Anniversary

[Hridoy Reh @hridoyreh]

Indie hackers run boring websites.

They are earning $532,000+ per month.

10 boring websites:

[YangDev @yang_dev_app]

Saturday wedding, Sunday portraits, Wednesday commercial.
The shooting is the easy part — remembering all of it isn't.

ShootNote keeps the booked days, the deposit you took, the balance still owed, and the delivery date in one place.

Search "ShootNote" on the App Store.

[YangDev @yang_dev_app]

Your calendar is your income. One double booking costs a client.

ShootNote: month view of what's taken, conflict check on every new shoot, deposits and balances kept apart, reminders for shoot night and delivery day.

$1.99 once. No account, no network, works offline.

[YangDev @yang_dev_app]

Adding iPhone Duo support to my apps, one at a time.

Echo 3.0 shipped with it: tab bar on the right edge when open, list and detail side by side.
Next: SleepNote — sleep talk and snoring, recorded overnight. Mid-port.

Same question every time: what should get wider?

[YangDev @yang_dev_app]

Echo: Anniversary 3.0 is out.

New Memos tab: accounts, cards, documents, notes — four broad kinds, in one place, with rows you can add yourself. Filter, search, sort.

Also adapted for iPhone Duo: the tab bar runs down the right side, list and detail sit side by side.

[YangDev @yang_dev_app]

To everyone building in the quiet, after work, one page at a time:

your pages count. Keep writing.

What's the sentence you'd put on tonight's page?

[YangDev @yang_dev_app]

Indie dev is mostly silence.

You ship, nobody claps. You break things, nobody knows. You fix them, nobody claps again.

Keep a diary. Keep building. The pages add up — so do you.

#buildinpublic

[YangDev @yang_dev_app]

The video is my diary — six months in watercolor, one page.
What carried me through the quiet:
- write it all down, even the failures
- small ships beat perfect plans
- one honest review beats ten clever ideas
You're not behind. You're just early.

[YangDev @yang_dev_app]

@168888888888888 Honest answer: I stopped picking.
With AI, fixing is cheap. So I clear the whole list in one pass and ship a single update.
Prioritization was a skill born from scarce dev hours. AI removed the scarcity — now the bottleneck is just App Review

turnaround.

[YangDev @yang_dev_app]

Every user review is a free spec.

My whole October: read reviews, ship updates, repeat. The people who write reviews are the ones using the app every
day.

Solo + AI turns that loop from quarterly to weekly.

#buildinpublic