Tag: android
All the articles with the tag "android".
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Why it exists · Booksum Why I built Booksum — and what chasing 'book tracker' taught me about App Store keywords
Booksum started as a fix for forgetting what I read: scan the page, keep the passage, summarise it on-device. Then it shipped under the wrong title. The numbers behind renaming 'Book Tracker & Scan' to 'Reading Journal', the intent traps ('summary' is a meeting-notes term, 'passage' is a health app), and why brand names got stripped from every non-US title.
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Why it exists · Marjai Why I built Marjai: 1,463 rulings, verbatim, offline, and no AI anywhere near the text
Scraping Sayyid Sistani's al-Masail al-Muntakhaba from the official site and proving zero mismatches, why the source's own numbering typo was kept, Arabic search that ignores diacritics and hamza forms, the decision to stay Arabic-only, and shipping iOS and Android from one Compose Multiplatform codebase.
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Why it exists · Ismi Why I built Ismi: a baby-names app where every meaning has a source
Most Islamic baby-name apps ship meanings copied from each other, some of them wrong. How Ismi's names pipeline works — Wikidata harvest, Quran citation verification against the Quranic Arabic Corpus, an LLM judge that rejects homographs like 'Matt → he died' — why the app is sect-neutral, and why it ships two native apps from one dataset.
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Why it exists · Cura Why I built Cura: an SSH client that shows you the problem before you open a shell
The 2 AM pager problem, why Cura reads /proc over plain SSH instead of installing an agent, how the health score is weighted, the BouncyCastle bug that silently broke TLS for every SDK in the app, and why Pro is a one-time purchase.