Working Between Claude Design and Claude Code — Splitting Diverge and Converge
Rough design in Claude Design, fine detail in Claude Code. Now that the two live close together in the desktop app, here is how to run them as a divide-of-labor between diverging and converging — bridges like Link Local code and Send to included.
Keep MCP Connector Authorization in One Place — A Solo Dev Design That Survives Growing Integrations
When Claude chat, Claude Code, and Cowork each configure the same MCP connector separately, their authorization drifts apart and breaks silently. Here is how to borrow the managed-connector idea of 'provision once, reuse everywhere' as an indie developer.
The Day a Billing Change Got Reversed at the Last Minute — Designing a Reversible Pipeline So You Don't Rewrite in a Panic
A billing change due to take effect on June 15 was retracted at the eleventh hour. From the position of someone who had literally logged 'effective today' the night before, here is why I didn't have to scramble to rewrite my headless stages, and how to build a pipeline that survives reversals and delays — with working code.
Beyond Tools in MCP: Designing with Resources, Prompts, and Sampling
Cramming everything into MCP tools hits a wall fast. Here is how resources, prompts, and sampling untangle a server, told through a real wallpaper-app asset manager I cut from 14 tools down to 5.
Grouping Crashes by Root Cause: A Triage Design Built on the Claude API
Crashlytics 'Issues' often scatter the same root cause across separate entries. After years of running apps with 50M+ cumulative downloads, here is how I use the Claude API to regroup crashes by actual root cause and rank them, with working code and real numbers.
Four Weeks With Claude Code: Driving Xcode Warnings to Zero in an Indie iOS Codebase
An indie iOS developer behind 50M+ downloads pairs with Claude Code for four weeks to clear hundreds of accumulated Xcode warnings. Notes on weekly scope, what to delegate, and the boundary where human judgment still wins.
Three Weeks of Letting Claude in Chrome Run My Android Vitals Weekly Review
I moved my Monday-morning Android Vitals review for a portfolio of wallpaper and relaxation apps over to Claude in Chrome three weeks ago. Notes on what I delegated, what I kept for myself, and how the rhythm has settled in for an indie developer in year twelve.
Retiring Dormant SDKs with Claude Code — A 12-Year Indie Developer's Pipeline for Safely Auditing Inactive Dependencies
Twelve years of indie iOS/Android development leaves a quiet sediment of SDKs that nobody calls anymore — but the dependencies remain. Here is the Claude Code pipeline I built to audit and safely retire them across four wallpaper apps, with the actual code and four weeks of operational metrics.
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.
Holding the Line on Claude's Output Shape With <output_format> — A Pattern From My Indie App Copy Pipeline
How I keep multilingual App Store copy from drifting across 100+ locales by leaning on the <output_format> tag, with the prompts and validators I actually run.
Two Weeks of Reviewing Crashlytics Weekly with Claude in Chrome
I let Claude in Chrome walk through Firebase Crashlytics dashboards once a week instead of checking them every morning. Notes from two weeks of running this loose division of labor as an indie developer behind 50M+ downloads.
6 Traps I Hit Building In-App AI Chat with Claude API — A Record of Getting to Production
Six real design mistakes I encountered shipping Claude API in-app chat to production — covering context management, streaming error detection, guardrails, session persistence, model versioning, and cost monitoring. Includes working TypeScript code.