Maxi Ruti

Creative Developer

Blog

Thoughts, Rejections, and Logs

Entry #20•

2026-10-24

Understanding what agents can do and when

development

study case

agents

indie dev

Most of it is hype, but not all of it. —>

Entry #19•

2026-10-19

Translating apps is almost a must

development

ios

android

indie dev

How I went from one language to five, and why it's worth the effort. —>

Entry #18•

2026-10-15

Split is now on Google Play

development

split

android

indie dev

Bringing Split Workout Tracking to Android. —>

Entry #17•

2026-10-02

The way I live my life

personal

philosophy

life

Make the world better one smile at a time. —>

Entry #16•

2026-09-21

Building Hanni: How 8 years of teaching Korean led to an app

development

hanni

aprendecoreanopasoapaso

app

korean

revenucat

How we finally built the app for Aprende Coreano Paso a Paso, by learning to build smaller. —>

Entry #15•

2026-09-10

Split Web: Building routines just got easier

development

split

indie dev

web

Create your routine on a big screen and share it everywhere. —>

Entry #14•

2026-08-15

Tabs: The app I built to stop procrastinating on reading

development

shipathon

revenueat

indie dev

tabs

Why I finally solved my tab hoarding problem, and why you might want to too. —>

Entry #13•

2026-08-05

Shipping with Shipathon: My first global hackathon

development

shipathon

revenucat

indie dev

Why I'm finally taking the leap and joining RevenueCat's $1M hackathon. —>

Entry #12•

2026-07-24

Monetizing with RevenueCat: Building the founder promise into Ritual

development

entrepreneurship

strategy

indie dev

ritual

revenucat

How I'm setting up RevenueCat to honor early users before Ritual even needs to charge. —>

Entry #11•

2026-07-17

An app making its first bucks

development

entrepreneurship

strategy

indie dev

The first sales won't make you rich, but they'll make you happy. —>

Entry #10•

2026-07-03

Don't clone success, build what you need

development

entrepreneurship

strategy

indie dev

Why following the 'find a successful app and improve it' advice is the fastest way to failure. —>

Entry #9•

2026-06-20

Accessibility isn't a feature

accessibility

web

animation

design

Why I rebuilt my portfolio around accessibility instead of bolting it on later. —>

Entry #8•

2026-06-15

Split 1.2, lifted by the community

development

marketing

mobile app

Why I added features I didn't need (but users requested) —>

Entry #7•

2026-04-21

Niche down until it hurts

development

strategy

product

entrepreneurship

Extreme specialization beats features every time. —>

Entry #6•

2026-02-25

Don't put all your eggs in one basket

development

ritual

marketing

socialmedia

Be everywhere, if you can. —>

Entry #5•

2026-02-16

I launched the app, now what?

development

marketing

mobile app

A journey to mastering app marketing. —>

Entry #4•

2026-02-12

The launch of RITUAL: BREATHE & REFLECT.

development

ritual

swiftui

ios

mindfulness

From React Native to SwiftUI —>

Entry #3•

2026-02-06

Why I Built My Own Fitness App

development

journal

mobile app

And why your Notes app isn't enough —>

Entry #2•

2026-01-20

GSAP GreenSock Snippets

development

journal

The best extension for creative developers —>

Entry #1•

2026-01-05

The First Post

development

journal

mdx

Why I’m blogging again —>