I shipped my Redis client at $14.99. One week, zero sales. The app asks for production credentials. I was charging people before they could check whether it was safe to hand them over. Reading is free now. Writing costs $19.99 once. apps.apple.com/app/apple-st...

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Your ISP test says 900 Mbps. The back bedroom still buffers. It measured the path to Ookla, never your Wi-Fi. Point iperf3 the other way: Mac as server, phone as client. Walk to the bedroom. Watch the number drop. https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6755545337?pt=128310960&ct=bluesky&mt=8

Video call drops, you reboot the router. Blind guess. Ping your gateway, your ISP's first hop, and the remote host. When the call dies, one spikes. That is your culprit. Net Ping watches all three, 24/7. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/netping-monitor/id6758602000?ct=bluesky&mt=8&pt=128310960

Redrawing my MQTT app, I read the one-star reviews of the apps beating it. One sentence keeps coming back: "It won't connect to my server. Same credentials as on my laptop. Just won't connect." So a failed connection gets its own screen now, naming the layer that broke. 🛠️

On-device AI means shipping the model. Mine is 2.6GB. Apple's reviewer waited past ten minutes, then rejected the app under Guideline 4 for being slow. So I stopped blocking launch on it. Install is a sheet you can dismiss, the download resumes, and the app stays usable.

Most "private" translators still send your words to a server to translate them. This one runs Gemma on your phone. Type it, photograph a sign, or say it. Once you install the model, it works in airplane mode, and your words never leave the device. https://aitranslator.chama.pro/?utm_source=bluesky

macOS "About This Mac → Storage" lies. It buckets 40GB of caches, dead Docker layers, and stale simulator runtimes into a gray "System Data" blob. I got tired of guessing what eats my SSD, so I built a Mac app that shows the exact paths and deletes nothing without your ok. https://storageradar.app

CacheDeck is live. A Redis client for the 2am on-call. Connect via SSH tunnel or TLS. Browse keys with SCAN, never KEYS. Destructive commands need the exact key name. Creds stay in device-only Keychain, no relay backend. $14.99 once. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cachedeck/id6783852434?ct=bluesky

Hot take: for a solo dev, a handful of tiny paid apps beats one big freemium SaaS. Less support load, no server bills, and when one app goes flat another one pops. Change my mind.

I'm a solo dev building small, sharp tools for Mac, iOS, and Android: a network speed tester, a Mac disk analyzer, an MQTT client, an offline AI translator, and more. Everything runs on-device, no accounts, no servers. Building it in public, numbers and flops included. Follow along 🛠️

Rebuilt the Mac version of my iPerf3 app from the ground up for 2.0. New native desktop layout, a Home dashboard that charts throughput live, and one tap to run your Mac as an iperf3 server. https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6755545337?pt=128310960&ct=bluesky&mt=8