A weekly, honest write-up of what I'm shipping, what's broken, and what the numbers actually look like for a one-person UK app studio. No filler.
Most of what I make is a consumer app you download. This week I pointed the same machinery at local businesses instead, and shipped two web apps that live on a shop's own site - no app store in sight.
Read entry →A few days ago I had two web apps for small businesses and a promise that the list would get longer. It got longer. There are five now, and together they cover most of what a shop, salon or cafe actually needs software to do.
Read entry →Inkframe started life as an aftercare app for people getting tattooed. It never felt right. So I kept the name and pointed it at the other end of the chair, at the artist, and the whole thing finally made sense.
Read entry →A free daily word game is only fun if the scoring is fair. This week that meant chasing down why the answer checker was waving through nonsense, and working out what it really costs to keep a free app honest.
Read entry →Launched Spot On, a score-prediction pools app for the World Cup and other events, where friends call the exact scoreline and climb a shared table. Also added a hidden daily bonus word to Letterly.
Read entry →Launched Rankle, a daily ranking puzzle game where you order four items from lowest to highest. Also shipped games.cyber-jack.uk, a hub page for all three daily games. Five weeks to ship three puzzle games.
Read entry →Letterly is a daily word categories game. Same letter, same ten categories, ninety seconds, for everyone in the world each day. Why I built a pure-web game, how the originality scoring works, and the honest state of it.
Read entry →A new side of the studio. Building modern, responsive websites for small UK businesses still stuck on dated, mobile-broken sites. Free concept redesign first, then a simple monthly plan.
Read entry →A weekend experiment wiring ListLedger up to a voice assistant, so you can add items hands-free. Why it needed a custom skill, how it works, and the honest state of it.
Read entry →Announcing Settle, a FODMAP-aware meal planner that imports any recipe by URL and hands the shopping list straight to ListLedger. Why this app, why now, and what the next three weeks look like.
Read entry →I'm writing in public so the people downloading my apps know there's a real person behind them, and so I have to be honest with myself about what's actually working.
Read entry →Week 19 - Smarter ingredient recognition
Read entry →This week I rebuilt the cyber-jack.uk studio page from scratch, migrated the GutLedger newsletter to Brevo, and added Inkframe as a fifth product.
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