Hacker News: ig0r0

I still build apps for myself

ig0r0 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:31:42 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.kulman.sk/why-i-still-build-ios-apps/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47688751

Points: 2

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I built my own expense tracker

ig0r0 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 11:41:17 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.kulman.sk/building-ledgee/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47516008

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

Beating App Store review: lessons from shipping a minimal indie game

ig0r0 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 11:09:49 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.kulman.sk/beating-app-store-review/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47334084

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by ig0r0 in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

ig0r0 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 20:01:49 +0000

I recently built a small iOS expense tracker called Ledgee.

I tried quite a few finance apps over the years, but they all felt too heavy for what I needed. I mainly wanted the fastest possible way to record a transaction before I forget it.

The core interaction is basically:

enter amount → tap category → saved

No save button, no forms, no subscriptions. Just quick manual entry, a simple overview, and a ledger. Data syncs via iCloud so it’s backed up automatically.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ledgee/id6759487219

I’m curious whether other people also prefer manual entry over bank integrations.

Building Aira: a calm anime tracker for myself

ig0r0 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 11:05:17 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.kulman.sk/building-aira/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47150002

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Destroy My Startup

ig0r0 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 12:02:26 +0000

Article URL: https://shipordie.club/roast/startup

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47136071

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

A seasonal anime tracker without ads or subscriptions

ig0r0 — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 13:23:05 +0000

Hi HN,

I’ve been watching anime for years and tracking everything on MyAnimeList. Over time I noticed that most tracking apps (including the official one) became noisy — ads, subscriptions, social features, recommendations, and a lot of UI I didn’t want.

These days I mostly watch seasonal anime week by week. What I actually need is very simple: - What is airing this season - What airs today - A quick way to mark episodes as watched

So I built Aira, a small iOS app focused purely on seasonal anime.

Design goals: - No ads, no subscriptions - No backend, works offline - No tracking or analytics - Can be used without a MyAnimeList account (login is optional)

It uses the MyAnimeList API for data and OAuth for optional sync, but the app itself stores everything locally.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/aira-seasonal-anime-tracker/id6756657581

Mini site: https://airaapp.kulman.sk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46912509

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Building Yomu: furigana, tokenization, and offline dictionaries on iOS

ig0r0 — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 11:12:26 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.kulman.sk/building-yomu-furigana-tokenization-dictionary/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46793862

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by ig0r0 in "Ask HN: Doing well solo, struggling in team-centric engineering roles"

ig0r0 — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 19:01:04 +0000

I am not sure it can be attribute to management. Not sure if good management could improve my motivation for example. Sometimes I feel like the world around me has changed and I am not able to change with it, just thinking of the good old days https://blog.kulman.sk/i-used-to-like-software-development-b...

New comment by ig0r0 in "Ask HN: Doing well solo, struggling in team-centric engineering roles"

ig0r0 — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 18:59:49 +0000

I do not think it would get lonely. I am not a very sociable person. I worked at a remote company where daily meeting were held because people wanted to be in contact with each other but that was not me.

Ask HN: Doing well solo, struggling in team-centric engineering roles

ig0r0 — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 17:57:22 +0000

I’m an experienced engineer who works very effectively on projects I fully own (personal apps, tools, solo work), but consistently struggle in team environments where ownership is shared, communication overhead is high, and success depends more on alignment and signaling than execution.

I’m not talking about skill gaps — the issue seems structural. I do fine when incentives, authorship, and responsibility are clear, but disengage when those are diffuse. This has started to affect job stability, especially in the current market.

I’m curious whether others recognize this pattern, and if so: • Have you found ways to operate sustainably in team-heavy orgs? • Did you move toward contracting, smaller teams, or different roles? • Or did you accept this as a constraint and optimize around it?

I’m explicitly not looking for motivation advice — more for patterns and tradeoffs people have observed.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46695336

Points: 6

# Comments: 6

New comment by ig0r0 in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

ig0r0 — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 21:12:14 +0000

https://blog.kulman.sk — personal blog about software development, indie iOS apps, self-hosting, and productivity. English.

https://www.kulman.sk — personal homepage with projects and links (Slovak).

New comment by ig0r0 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)"

ig0r0 — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 15:48:10 +0000

Working on Yomu, an indie iOS Japanese reader intended to make intermediate reading easier.

It started while I was studying for JLPT N4 — I wanted adaptive furigana that hides readings for kanji I already know, so I could focus on real text without constant lookups. That shaped the core architecture: level-based furigana, offline dictionary (JMDict), and custom tokenization logic with IPADic for accuracy.

Some interesting challenges have been furigana edge cases, Safari text paste quirks, and balancing offline performance with accuracy.

Yomu is live on the App Store now, and I’m writing about the problems that led me to build it on my blog: https://blog.kulman.sk/japanese-reading-problem/.

The Japanese reading problem that made me build my own app

ig0r0 — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 11:31:09 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.kulman.sk/japanese-reading-problem/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46614856

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Still using Firefox – but not because of its vision

ig0r0 — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 08:03:38 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.kulman.sk/stuck-with-firefox/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46430716

Points: 46

# Comments: 17

New comment by ig0r0 in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

ig0r0 — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 16:19:49 +0000

I’m working on Yomu, an iOS app for reading Japanese text with adjustable furigana.

I’m learning Japanese myself (recently took JLPT N4), and I noticed that full furigana makes me rely on readings instead of actually reading kanji. Yomu lets you hide furigana for kanji up to your level and keep it for harder ones.

It’s offline-first, supports importing text from anywhere, camera OCR, and a fast dictionary.

https://yomuapp.kulman.sk

New comment by ig0r0 in "Apple will not let me join the Developer Program – and will not say why"

ig0r0 — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 13:03:28 +0000

I managed to create a new Apple id with new email, new phone number, I had to use it on a real device to be able to get through payment. So far so good, lets see if I can actually publish the app.

For anyone interested in testing the app and providing feedback here is a TestFlight link https://testflight.apple.com/join/SHngHsGk

New comment by ig0r0 in "Apple will not let me join the Developer Program – and will not say why"

ig0r0 — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 13:02:11 +0000

I managed to create a completely new Apple id and get through, if you are interested in testing the app and providing feedback you can join Testlflight beta https://testflight.apple.com/join/SHngHsGk

New comment by ig0r0 in "Apple will not let me join the Developer Program – and will not say why"

ig0r0 — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 16:39:23 +0000

Not macOS, Linux to be competently different that my main machine.

New comment by ig0r0 in "Apple will not let me join the Developer Program – and will not say why"

ig0r0 — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 16:38:40 +0000

I bought a new SIM to have a new phone number, create a new email, registered a new Apple ID from a different IP, got to the step where I have to pay for the dev account and all of the cards I used got me an error. Banks saying Apple did not even try charging them.