Riad Mahi, mobile engineer based in France.
I build iOS and Android apps with Kotlin Multiplatform and Swift, and I write about what I learn shipping them to production.
Notes from production.
I built Luteal for one person. Twenty thousand downloaded it in three months.
A cycle app built for my girlfriend, who is hypersensitive. What Flo's revenue showed me about an open vertical, why the mood had to come before the date, and what a ten-to-one Android split says about who really chooses your audience.
Lexlane: AI made it cheap to build the wrong thing
My first SaaS, built for French lawyers in three months. Two mistakes I would not repeat, one SEO play that produced a million impressions and no business, and the part I would build again tomorrow.
AI took my job. Here is what actually happened.
I was the only mobile engineer on a CE-marked medical device, at twenty-four. Then the redundancies came, and I raised my hand to be in them. The honest version of a sentence that fits on a thumbnail.