How I Built a Multi-App OTA Update System (And Cut Costs from $199/month to $0)Mar 1, 2026·10 min read·386
How I Got to 50,000 Downloads Without Spending on Ads (And What Actually Drove Growth)In 2021, I built my first mobile app during a high school vacation. It was terrible, basically a wrapper around a website for exam past questions. But it made okay money from ads, so I forgot about itMar 10, 2026·10 min read·54
How I Migrated 50,000 Users from Firebase to a Custom Backend (And What Broke Anyway)Feb 15, 2026·6 min read·34
How My Firebase Bill Hit $300 in One Month (And Why I Don't Use Firebase Anymore)Feb 8, 2026·5 min read·31
Why My App Crashed 47 Times in One Week (And the Monitoring Tool That Would've Saved Me)47 crashes in one week. That's what happens when you ship an app to 50,000 users without proper error monitoring. My app's rating started tanking. Users were leaving one-star reviews. And I had no idea what was actually causing it. The Play Console c...Jan 31, 2026·4 min read·40
Building in Public as a CS Student (After a Year in Production)My app crashed 47 times in one week. That same month, my Firebase bill hit $300 because I didn't understand read/write pricing. By that point, the app had been live for nearly a year and reached 50,000 downloads, which meant every mistake was expensi...Dec 24, 2025·1 min read·91
