Articles in English
AppVillage is a community showcase for indie app developers in Japan. These are first-hand write-ups by the maintainer — written for English readers, not machine-translated. The Japanese Gazette has many more: 村だより (Japanese).
- Aug 29, 2026
Automating App Store Connect Metadata With the API: Zero Dependencies, 78 Lines, and 4 Submission Traps
App name, 4,000-character description, keywords, the 20-question age rating form, review notes — filling out App Store Connect is the most draining part of a release. I turned it into a dependency-free Node script that only PATCHes, left the Submit button to a human, and hit four traps on the way — including one that silently switched my release to auto-publish.
- Aug 29, 2026
Turning Claude Code Into a One-Person Software Company: Departments as Skills
An indie developer is the planning, engineering, QA and marketing departments at once. So I used Claude Code's Skills to build departments — 11 general-purpose skills plus project-specific ones, running for months. Here's the org chart and the design rules that emerged: name collisions, a single source of truth for real numbers, and least privilege.
- Aug 29, 2026
I Built and Submitted an iOS App in One Day With Claude Code — Here's the Real Reason It Was Fast
Environment setup at 3:50 PM, implementation done at 9:40 PM, App Store submission the next day, approved. About 3,300 lines of Dart, 31 tests, 37 commits, roughly six working hours. The whole thing is in git log, and when I went back through it, the speed had almost nothing to do with how fast the AI writes code.
- Aug 29, 2026
I Shipped an iOS App With Zero Backend: SwiftUI + SwiftData + CloudKit + StoreKit 2
After building two apps with Flutter and a BaaS, I built one in native Swift and every external service disappeared — no BaaS, no auth, no server, no billing SDK, no push infrastructure. Here's what went away, the conditions that make it possible, the CloudKit traps that will silently break sync, and what I gave up.