Empower Apps Podcast: Building Plinky as an Indie Developer

Nov 20, 2024 | 1 min read

I joined Leo Dion on the Empower Apps podcast to discuss my journey building Plinky, a link-saving app that I created to solve my own organizational needs. We explored the technical stack behind Plinky, ranging from SwiftUI to Vapor to Postgres, as well as my custom offline persistence library, Boutique.

During our conversation, we dove into the design philosophy behind Plinky, focusing on making it playful, colorful, and customizable. Leo and I discussed the challenges of indie development, from agonizing over every color and icon choice to building features that work for both casual and power users. We also talked about everything coming to Plinky, like Link Reminders, and a native Mac app, as well as AI features that will elevate Plinky as a platform.

Joe Fabisevich is an indie developer building Plinky, and a teacher who helps people learn about AI. He shares his writing about engineering, design, development, AI, and anything you need to build a company — here on build.ms.

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