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Guides
Plain, practical writing on building real apps with AI agents and running a one-person studio. No hype. Just what worked, what didn't, and why.
- App Marketing
App Marketing for Solo Developers: The Honest Short List
App marketing for solo developers, cut to what one person can actually run: the few moves that work, by hand, without a team or a big budget.
Updated 2026-08-29 - App Marketing
ASO Basics for Indie App Developers: The By-Hand Guide
A plain, honest walkthrough of app store optimization for solo devs: title, keywords, screenshots, and the what's new field as marketing.
Updated 2026-08-29 - Building with AI
The Best Way to Manage AI Prompts (I Tried Four, Here's What Stuck)
A solo founder's honest comparison of ways to manage AI prompts: notes app, doc, folder, or a dedicated deck. What actually holds up.
Updated 2026-08-29 - Content & Distribution
How to Automate Posting to Every Platform for Free
A honest walkthrough of automating posts to every platform free, using an AI loop that makes, shapes, posts, engages, and tracks your content.
Updated 2026-08-29 - Content & Distribution
How to Cross-Post to Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube Without Killing Your Reach
How to cross-post to Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube the right way: skip the link-in-caption throttle, use the first comment, and reshape per platform.
Updated 2026-08-29 - App marketing
How to Get More App Downloads (Without Paying for Installs)
The real levers that move app downloads without buying installs: your store listing, word of mouth, and content that finds users for you.
Updated 2026-08-29 - App Marketing
How to Get Your First 100 App Downloads
The zero-to-first-users playbook for a brand-new app: the concrete, by-hand distribution moves that get your first 100 downloads.
Updated 2026-08-29 - Building with AI
How to Give ChatGPT Long Term Memory (Two Real Methods)
How to give ChatGPT long term memory: its built-in memory feature versus a durable file-based method you own and control across any AI tool.
Updated 2026-08-29 - Building with AI
How to Give Your AI a Memory (So It Stops Forgetting Everything)
A plain walkthrough of how to give an AI a real memory: the one file it re-reads every session so it remembers who you are and your rules, without you re-explaining yourself.
Updated 2026-08-29 - Building with AI
How to Make Your AI Remember Context Between Sessions
The practical way to make an AI remember context between sessions: a file it reads first every time, holding who you are, your rules, and your project state so you stop re-explaining yourself.
Updated 2026-08-29 - Building with AI
How to Make an AI Agent Actually Follow Your Rules
Why AI agents drift off your instructions and how to make them follow rules: write a small set of hard lines, put them where they cannot be missed, and make one rule beat everything else.
Updated 2026-08-29 - App marketing
How to Market an App for Free (No Ad Budget)
A practical, no-budget plan to market your app: the free channels that actually move installs, from a solo builder doing it in public right now.
Updated 2026-08-29 - App marketing
How to Market Your AI-Built App
You built an app with AI, now market it with AI. The honest way to promote an app you built fast, from a non-engineer doing exactly this in public.
Updated 2026-08-29 - Building with AI
How to Organize Your AI Prompts (A Simple Folder and Tag System)
A clean, real folder-and-tag structure for organizing your AI prompts so you can find and reuse the good ones instead of rewriting them.
Updated 2026-08-29 - App Marketing
How to Post to All Your Social Media at Once
The honest way to post to all your social media at once: a small loop that makes one piece of content, shapes it per platform, posts it everywhere, and tracks it, so you stop doing it by hand five times.
Updated 2026-08-29 - App marketing
I Made an App, Now What? A Real Plan to Get Your First Users
You shipped an app and nobody's downloading it. Here's an honest, free-first plan to get your first real users, from someone building apps in public.
Updated 2026-08-29 - The apps
Real Apps Built With AI You Can Actually Download
Not demos, not screenshots. Real apps designed, built, and shipped with AI agents by a one-person studio, live on the stores and free to try today.
Updated 2026-08-16 - Building with AI
How to Build an App With AI Agents (What Actually Works in 2026)
A practical, no-hype guide to building a real, shippable app with AI agents, from someone who has shipped several. The workflow, the traps, and where humans still matter.
Updated 2026-08-16 - Building with AI
How One Person Runs a Software Company With AI Agents
What it actually looks like to run a one-person software studio with a fleet of AI agents: the org chart, what each agent does, and what still lands on the human.
Updated 2026-08-16