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Aug 26, 2026

Filing information redistributes nothing

Family apps are very good at filing a household's information. None of them change who has to think about it. Building Noan, I spent more time on that shift than on every feature combined — and on the tightrope it forces: making invisible work visible without keeping score.

indie · build · mobile · 7 min
Jul 12, 2026

Ti Boug: the real market price in every Réunion pocket

Ti Boug, my iPhone app against the cost of living in Réunion: the real daily prices of fruit & veg, their season, and an AI-composed basket — from the official DAAF price bulletins. What it does, the stack, and where the build stands.

build · indie · ia · 4 min
Jun 16, 2026

I built an app to memorize 3000 English words. No account, no server, no build.

The 3000 most useful English words, ordered by frequency, as flashcards with spaced repetition. It all lives in the browser, the data is the single source of truth, and it's online on GitHub Pages. The story of a mini-app designed to last with zero maintenance.

build · indie · 3 min
Jun 15, 2026

OpenRouter Fusion: a panel of models beats the frontier model

OpenRouter just shipped Fusion: instead of querying one model, you query several in parallel and a judge synthesizes. The result: three cheap models nearly reach Fable 5's level at half the price. For an indie, that's value right now.

ia · stack · indie · 7 min
May 25, 2026

I turned Claude into an app-idea scout. Here's what it found on Réunion Island.

How I use Claude Skills to brainstorm 10 SaaS ideas scored out of 100, in 15 minutes — with a real run on my local niche, Réunion Island.

ia · claude · tools · indie · 9 min
May 24, 2026

Claude Code on the web: how I ship my apps from my phone

A GitHub issue from the phone, a Claude Code session auto-triggered in a cloud container, a PR popping up in Slack, a merge from the GitHub app. My indie workflow when I'm away from the laptop — and what works vs. what doesn't.

ia · claude · process · indie · 6 min
Apr 20, 2026

The 2026 stack to build an app without losing your mind

Three apps shipped in two years. The stack I'd pick again tomorrow, the anti-patterns I lived through, and the specific traps you won't find in the docs.

stack · indie · mobile · 5 min