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 ↓

[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

[YangDev @yang_dev_app]

@moa_builds Good question. When two users want opposite things, it's usually not a feature fight — it's a scope smell.

I ask which side matches the app's ONE core job. My apps are niche on purpose, so the niche wins.

[想风 @xaiwind]

https://t.co/0j9p3LvBsq

[Sac @Saccc_c]

花费16天，我用 Opus 5.5 将小王子的故事制作成了3D剧情游戏

结合Tripo+Blender，Opus 5.5 将小王子故事中的每一个星球变成了可探索的3D场景

希望大家能支持一手，后续会开源整个游戏，以及详细制作流程

Welcome to The Little Prince: Across the Stars✨：https://t.co/qr4wR0jLu3

[YangDev @yang_dev_app]

One shutter, two frames — and now a Live Photo.
DualFrame Cam 3.0 is live on the App Store. Front + back captured together, new Live Photo toggle, long-press to play
in Photos or your camera roll. 50 filters, 4 layouts, effects & stickers built in.
Update or install today.

[YangDev @yang_dev_app]

DualFrame Cam 2.1 is now multilingual.

Dual preview.
Independent filters.
Layout templates.
Fully offline.

Shoot once. Post everywhere.

[YangDev @yang_dev_app]

@abo0zar Still sorting it out. The simplest test I have in mind is reviewing user usage metrics within Connect Analytics.

[YangDev @yang_dev_app]

6 months ago I read a post about building apps with AI. That night I signed up for an Apple Developer account.

20+ iOS apps later: $351 in sales, $159 in costs — all built after work.

What sold? A truck-driver logbook. Narrow niches get used daily.

#buildinpublic

[YangDev @yang_dev_app]

@abo0zar Honestly, I’m not sure how to assess it. The only thing I can do is test it out.