Building toward indie, alongside a 9–5
I'm Ivan.I build apps.
I make iPhone apps like Habitly, Lumi and VoiceMate, plus Indie Shipyard for other indie devs, in the hours around my day job. I write about what I ship, what works, and what doesn't.
Projects
Indie Shipyardnew
A deliberately small tracker for indie developers: every app, its stage, and the one next thing to do.
Stealth iOS app
Something new for iPhone, built quietly. More when it ships.
One template, fourteen apps
How a single Flutter template and one shared AI backend turned into a family of photo-identifier apps.
Starter kits in four stacks
The templates I start every app from, and why each one ships with the boring parts already done.
Choosing a stack by building in it
Building the same MVP in SwiftUI, Flutter and Kotlin Multiplatform before committing to one.
Calm utilities
Habitly and DeskStretch: two small apps shaped mostly by what they leave out.
Newsletter
Elsewhere
Follow along for small apps, honest numbers, and lessons learned the hard way.