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Yukapero_en
@yukapero-com-en.bsky.social
Took the plunge and quit my big tech job to go indie / Building web & mobile apps & Japanese freelance / Sharing the whole journey: revenue, learnings & fails / Open to work from companies & individuals, feel free to reach out. More at yukapero.com
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Thinking of cheating with Antigravity next year to cut my costs by more than half #buildinpublic
December 22, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Apple and Google’s store link designs are so similar. I wonder if they coordinated, if the latecomer just copied the first one, or if it was just a coincidence. #buildinpublic
December 20, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Has there ever been a hero section this clear? #buildinpublic
December 20, 2025 at 11:34 AM
The audacity of them saying "Put the App Store badge first! Everything else comes after! No exceptions!" is hilarious. I want Google to say the same thing so they can have a total battle of the egos. #buildinpublic
December 20, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Fiddling with my main PC from my MacBook Air using macOS's built-in screen sharing is actually pretty comfy. Since I'm mostly just doing vibe coding right now, I don't really care about the lag or low resolution.
December 19, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Crossposted on an international platform, hit 1000+ views in a day with tons of comments & great feedback. Yet, on another platform (3x user base), the same article got ~5 views. Fascinating, counter-intuitive result! #buildinpublic
December 18, 2025 at 3:54 AM
I just made the biggest blunder on my blog. My canonical tags on EVERY single article were all pointing to the homepage! What a catastrophically bad setting error. Thank goodness it's a new site, because if I'd realized this a year down the line, I'd never have recovered. #buildinpublic
December 14, 2025 at 10:43 PM
I bet there's no one on earth with shittier commit logs than me.
December 12, 2025 at 3:19 PM
My Google AdSense (blog) is finally making enough to buy an Umaibo! The ads are super subtle right now, so if I made them more annoying, I might earn more, but it's a trade-off with trust and branding. So, I probably should keep them low-key until my page views really blow up.
#buildinpublic
December 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Used bolt, Gemini 3.0 pro, Opus 4.5, & v0 on one prompt for a smartphone app LP. UI-wise, Gemini & Opus stood out, but any output is a good base as I'll tweak it. Awkward Japanese? Probably the prompt's fault. Prompt too detailed? Might've hid unique model strengths. #buildinpublic
December 6, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Was trying to figure out why my Expo builds kept failing, then realized the whole Expo platform was down!
Might be a Cloudflare thing again?
https://expo.dev/
December 5, 2025 at 9:01 AM
I was thinking, "Man, manually entering metadata for 25 languages one by one in the store's admin dashboard? That's just crazy." But then it turns out both App Store and Google Play apparently offer APIs, so it looks like I can just generate the metadata JSON myself and call the API.
#buildinpublic
December 4, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Took 16 tries of "Hmm, something's off" for the app icon, but finally settled on
⑯: Splash screen
⑰: App icon
UIUX is never-ending if you get too particular about it, unlike feature development. It's kind of brutal how there's no end in sight.
#buildinpublic #cat
December 2, 2025 at 11:50 AM
This cat and swipe animation, it's using Lottie animation and it's pretty sweet
Super lightweight, works on web and apps, and being in JSON format makes it easy to understand, which is great
I had no idea about this until now, is it still kinda niche? #cat #buildinpublic
November 30, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Just realized I can "like" my own posts
Why wasn't this disabled systemically
November 29, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Added an animation to the loading screen when launching the app + polished up the UI.
But still, with React Native, I can't shake the web feel in the UI. Is it my lack of skill?
#cat #buildinpublic
November 29, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Threads is blowing X out of the water right now, even though it's a cross-post! It's wild.
My Threads: 1 follower
My X: 200 followers
Totally counter-intuitive, right? User demographics, luck, who knows. Too early to say for sure, gotta dig deeper.
November 29, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Looks like Claude's coding senpai is also feeling under the weather with the flu
November 28, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Just prototyped a surreal app where a cat forever watches from the edge of the screen. If this app sells, I'm getting a cat... (famous last words) #cat #buildinpublic
November 28, 2025 at 6:17 AM