Tag: swift
All the articles with the tag "swift".
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Why it exists · Ouen Why I built Ouen: a fan-sign maker, savings jar and ticket tracker for people who support an oshi
Japan's 推し活 is a ¥4 trillion hobby whose fans stitch together a calendar, Notion and a memo app. The search data said the savings and merch keywords were wide open and the sign-maker keyword was huge. 660 reviews of the existing apps wrote the free-tier rules: no ads, never block saving, no data loss. How Ouen got its shape and its name.
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Why it exists · Ward Why I built Ward: a porn and website blocker where the hard part is the off switch
1,600 one-star reviews of porn blockers say the same four things: a paywall after a quiz, a VPN that breaks the internet, an easy bypass, and a fee to uninstall. Ward's answer is a free filter that blocks on the device, a waiting time instead of a wall, and a DNS-only tunnel. What iOS does and doesn't let you do, and why the hosts file wins on desktop.
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Why it exists · Textrix Why Textrix moved from a cloud model to on-device AI (and what it cost)
Textrix launched in 2024 sending every paragraph to a cloud API. Version 2.8 runs the AI on the iPhone — Apple's on-device model where available, a downloaded local model everywhere else. Why the switch, the 940 MB download problem, what got worse, what got better, and the keyword audit that found the app ranking for 'proofread' at #219 and nothing else.
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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.