Untangling Android Back-Button Ad Gates: A Parallel, Priority-Ordered Redesign with Claude Code
Nested back-button ad gates fired at the wrong moments. The parallel, priority-ordered redesign we shipped in v2.1.0, with Claude Code, Kotlin, and tests.
Where the human still has to press the button — lessons from delegating ad ops to Cowork
From actually delegating repetitive ad operations — AdMob bidding-partner sign-ups and floor tuning — to Cowork, here is the boundary I found between what AI can fully own and the single moves a human still has to make by hand.
Rebalancing Interstitial Frequency in a Wallpaper App: Three Weeks of Trading Revenue Against Retention
I spent three weeks tuning only the interstitial frequency in a wallpaper app, watching where AdMob eCPM and next-day retention meet. Here is the quiet, unglamorous adjustment that actually moved things, with Claude in Chrome reading the dashboards alongside me each morning.
Three Weeks of Letting Claude in Chrome Tune My AdMob Mediation Priorities
I let Claude in Chrome handle the reordering of AdMob mediation priorities for three weeks. Here is how I set the threshold, the three prompt changes that actually mattered, the numbers, and the parts I deliberately kept under human control.
Folding AdMob and Crashlytics into One Morning Check via Cowork Scheduled Tasks — Two-Week Notes
I had been checking AdMob fill rates and Crashlytics surges in two separate dashboards each morning. I folded them into a single Cowork scheduled task. Here are my two-week notes, with the numbers and the friction I ran into.
Catching AdMob Fill-Rate Drops in the Morning with Claude in Chrome — Two-Week Notes
I kept noticing fill-rate drops only by late afternoon. So I switched to having Claude in Chrome read the AdMob report each morning. Here are my two-week notes, with the numbers and the friction I ran into.
One month of weekly AppLovin MAX A/B test reviews with Claude in Chrome
Waterfall A versus B—how do you compare them every week without burning out? Here are my notes from running AppLovin MAX A/B tests across four indie apps with Claude in Chrome handling the weekly roll-up.
A Daily Revenue Pipeline for 4 Wallpaper Apps: 8 Weeks Running App Store Connect API + AdMob With Claude Code
An 8-week record of running App Store Connect API and AdMob Reporting API through a Python pipeline for 4 iOS wallpaper apps, with Claude Code helping absorb JWT auth quirks, gzip TSV edge cases, timezone misalignment, and Slack alerting thresholds — written from an indie developer's perspective.
A Morning Digest Agent across App Store Connect, Play Console, Crashlytics, and AdMob — 30 days of running it on Claude Agent SDK
Opening four dashboards each morning across six apps used to eat 30 to 50 minutes of my day. Here is the Claude Agent SDK recipe that compressed it into one email, with the measured numbers from a full month.
Three Weeks of Tuning AdMob Floor Prices with Claude in Chrome
Notes from three weeks of small daily floor-price adjustments across four iOS apps, with Claude in Chrome doing the dashboard rounds and me keeping the judgment calls.
Adding Three AdMob Mediation Partners With Claude — What I Learned Updating 4 iOS Apps at Once
A hands-on account of adding Unity Ads, Liftoff, and InMobi to 4 iOS apps simultaneously. Covers W-8BEN tax form submission, ATT prompt ordering, and AppLovin MAX waterfall setup — all with Claude as my documentation navigator.
Build a Mobile App Revenue Dashboard with Claude Code — Integrating AdMob, App Store Connect, and Google Play Console APIs with Automated Daily Reports
A production-ready guide to unifying AdMob, App Store Connect, and Google Play Console revenue data into a single dashboard, with automated daily Slack reports. The definitive revenue visibility setup for indie mobile developers.