Work
Small apps, shipped to real stores.
Four products I designed, built and published on my own under Adky Labs, my indie app studio. Each starts from a single problem and tries to solve it quietly: private by default, no dark patterns, no noise. See them on the App Store
Moniqa
Budgeting & personal finance
A minimalist budgeting app built around privacy, simplicity and habit formation.
- Problem
- Budgeting apps compete on features and notifications. Most people just need a calm way to see where money goes.
- Approach
- Offline, account-free, add an expense in five seconds. No streaks, no nagging.
- Outcome
- 9,000+ organic App Store impressions shortly after launch.
FocusFlux
Ambient focus & deep work
A focus app centred on ambient soundscapes and distraction-free work sessions.
- Problem
- Productivity tools tend to add friction to the very work they claim to protect.
- Approach
- A deliberately small feature set: pick a soundscape, start a session, get out of the way.
- Outcome
- Shipped and live on the App Store.
Recupio
Daily mood & wellness
A private wellness companion: 30-second mood check-ins, journaling, gratitude and breathing.
- Problem
- Wellness apps pile on features and guilt-driven streaks, which is the opposite of what a stressed person needs.
- Approach
- Core habits only, forgiving streaks with weekend grace, all data on-device with no account.
- Outcome
- Live on the App Store with zero data collected, per Apple's privacy label.
TheStoicMonk
Meditation & Stoic philosophy
My first shipped app: guided audio sessions, journaling, Pomodoro and daily Stoic readings.
- Problem
- Mindfulness apps often feel corporate. I wanted something grounded in philosophy.
- Approach
- Customisable audio sessions alongside a journal and a daily Stoic passage.
- Outcome
- Published on Google Play.
Experiments
Things I build to learn
Gistal
Content summariser powered by LLMs.
Inbox Simplifier
Summarises and auto-labels email.
Local RAG for PDFs
Chat with PDFs using local models, nothing leaves the machine.
Dataset Error Reduction
Thesis code: an LLM ensemble that flags mislabelled Q&A data.
Web Status Checker
Checks whether a website is up.
TheStoicMonk (Swift)
Native rewrite of my React Native app in Swift.