Here's what Lansia actually is, behind the screen.
It's an Expo and React Native codebase, mostly written in a small home office in Slovenia. Two app stores, one developer, one person answering support emails, one person fixing the bug you might find next week.
I built it on evenings and weekends, with a wife who runs our business with me and a young daughter, and a son arriving later this year. I'm not going to tell you it was easy. I'm going to tell you it was small enough to fit.
Most of what people think they need to ship a product is wrong. No team, no round, no launch plan. What you need is to decide what tomorrow's three to five tasks are, and do them. Repeat for a year. Ship something. Repeat for another year. Ship something better.
That's the entire blueprint for how Lansia got built. It's also the practice the app is built around. Which is convenient, because I would have built it the same way regardless.
The indie part is real. The version of Lansia you have on your phone is shipped by a person who's also probably making coffee right now. If you email feedback, the email goes to me. If you write a review, I read it within the hour. If you suggest a feature that fits the philosophy, it gets considered for the next release. If it doesn't fit, I'll tell you honestly.
This isn't a pitch for buying indie software. It's just where the product comes from. You're not paying for a brand or a roadmap or a department. You're paying for a tool one person made because they wanted it to exist, and now you can have it too.
If you're building something on the side yourself, you already understand. The list for tonight is the same as mine. Three to five things. The hardest one first.
We'll see each other tomorrow.
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Up to five tasks for tomorrow, written tonight. $4.99 once, no subscription.