If you're reading this, you've found the new Obelisk Club blog. Hi.
This is a working notebook for the apps in the Obelisk Club ecosystem — Nota, SnapPro, ViewOne, PhotoBridge, SipNote, QuickPix, QuickVid Compress, Photo Archive Assistant, and the apps still in the oven. Eight apps and counting, all built around the same principle: your data stays on your device.
What we'll write here
Three kinds of posts, roughly:
- Build logs. What we changed in the last release of an app, why we changed it, what we tried first that didn't work.
- Technical writeups. When we figure out something interesting — like how on-device OCR makes drink tracking 10x faster, or what ProRes 4444 actually buys you — we'll explain it here.
- Launch retrospectives. Numbers and lessons from each Product Hunt or App Store launch. The good, the boring, and the things we'd skip next time.
No clickbait listicles. No SEO filler. If we have nothing to say, we won't post.
Why a blog?
Honest answer: the alternative is talking exclusively in 280-character bursts on social. That's fine for the moment, but it doesn't accumulate. Posts here are the long-form receipts. They're also the place to land when someone Googles "back up iPhone photos to Synology" and wants to know whether PhotoBridge is for them.
Six years of indie-dev conventional wisdom: people who buy your apps want to know who built them and why. This is where we explain that.
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— Peter