What are you doing now?
Does it really matter?
I’m not in the right place, and maybe not even in the right moment. I’m just another person in a sea of people trying to figure things out.
To everyone still reading this journey: thank you. It matters to know there’s at least one soul on the other side — whether they hate it or love it.
When making things becomes cheap, what are we left with?
A few years ago, I could only dream of producing this much. If you live on X, that might not sound new. But it’s worth pausing to look at this new way of working and ask what’s actually happening.
I have a fast mind, and my thoughts are noisy. I used to struggle to turn that noise into something concrete. I had ideas for apps, flows, interfaces, but code always felt like the wall between what I imagined and what existed.
Now I dump my crude, messy thoughts into an AI agent. It organizes, rewrites, filters, and suddenly I’m staring at a clear plan I would never have been able to write that cleanly on my own. It feels amazing and uncomfortable at the same time — like outsourcing the part of my brain that used to be the bottleneck.
That’s the shift. Tools made output cheap. But what makes it matter?
I used to dream of apps I couldn’t build. I was confident in UI and UX and believed that if I could just “speak code” as naturally as I design, I’d be dangerous. Ego, for sure. But with the right tools, that fantasy quietly turned into reality: 9 apps published, more on the way.
So here’s what’s been happening lately.
Momentum from the last month
This isn’t just grinding for the sake of saying “I shipped.”
It’s proof that clarity + tools = real products people can actually use.
FiveYears
I built and shipped my first fully native Swift iOS app, FiveYears, in a single shot. It got approved on the first try.
It’s a simple five-year journal. You write something about your day, it stays on your device, locked behind Face ID. No database, no server. You can export it, erase it, keep it completely yours.
The magic: next year, on this same day, you read what you wrote exactly one year ago. Then the next year, and the next. A slow time machine.
I also made a deliberate choice: full-priced app. No trial, no freemium. Pay R$ 4,99 once, have it forever. I highly encourage you to go buy and download it. I bet you won’t be poorer for spending that (it’s not a subscription), and you’ll be giving a very real boost to my work and motivation.
Get FiveYears on the App Store
Thanks Bud!
O Canteiro Gestão
My construction management app, is finally out and working like a charm.
I iterated on the first version and added a tool to make it easy to get quotations from providers. You create a list, tap “Quotation,” and it generates a URL and code. You send that to your supplier, they fill in prices and availability, and you receive everything automatically back in your list.
I also added a simple AI layer to analyze progress and spending. Nothing crazy, but enough to be a real entry point into AI for this kind of work. And yes, it already has its first Pro sale — that feels very good.
Get O Canteiro Gestão on the App Store
Feels good!
Leão Manso
Had its moment, and still does. Two people bought the Pro version. Two actual humans saw enough value to pay to use it fully — that still hits. In the last update, I added an AI layer to check expenses and give the user feedback on how they’re doing. Some of it is fun, some of it is a gentle slap. Along with that came improvements in logic, security, and UI/UX. It’s fun to use myself, and I still expected a bit more traction at this point — but that’s part of the game.
Get Leão Manso on the App Store
Mythic Atlas
It is finally out. This is my ancient stories app, and it’s totally free, so just go and download it.
It already has a bunch of cool stories I bet you’ve never heard of, the kind that make you curious and maybe send you down a rabbit hole. I’ll try to keep a good pace of updates to make it feel alive and interesting over time.
EME
Some people downloaded, created accounts, and I made some code improvements. No major new features yet, but it’s moving.
The rest of the apps are in that same mode: they receive updates and improvements here and there, but the focus now is shifting.
I’m moving more of my energy to marketing — and I’m learning it with the help of AI.
It’s interesting to see how models and agents are leaning into design and marketing now. Not just coding assistants, not just agentic workflows, but “give me one prompt and I’ll give you a landing page, screenshots, copy, and assets.” It’s wild, and it’s going to change how solo devs like me show their work to the world.
The rest? Incremental improvements. But focus now: marketing. Learning it with AI help. Agents are shifting — not just code, but full layouts/marketing from one prompt.
The real question
I’m ahead of my 2026 goal: one app per month. On paper, that looks great.
But volume isn’t the win.
What matters is making something useful that people actually use. Not hype. Not just shipping screenshots. Not a monthly report of “what I did.”
Usefulness.
That’s what I’m chasing. If you want to help, download, buy, share, or just tell someone about one of these apps. It genuinely makes this sea of “trying to figure it out” feel less hopeless.
And now I pass the title back to you:
What are you doing now — and does it really matter?