About

Building my own software products. I usually code in Swift, TypeScript and Ruby.

I write about my thoughts on products, marketing, code and random ideas here.

This is what I’m currently working on:

• SummarizeVideo.ai, a video summarizer service web
• Ping Now, a website/API/service uptime monitor web

Find Me

• Email: hboon@motionobj.com
• Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/hboon.com
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/hboon
• Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@hboon
• GitHub: https://github.com/hboon
• for iOS / macOS consulting based on Obj-C, Swift and RubyMotion

Other Projects

• TheBlue.social, 1-click to follow back Bluesky followers and browse Starter Packs web
• SimplyWM, a tiling window manager macOS
• MenuBar Next, displays the first line of a text file in the menu bar macOS
• SimplyDiskSweeper, clean up your macOS disk macOS
• Regex, a regular expression testing tool running on macOS macOS

Misc

• httpstatuses.net, a list of HTTP status codes web

in maintenance mode or defunct

• AlphaWallet, an open source Ethereum/EVM wallet for iOS iOS
• Digest.to, receive a daily digest of URLs that people in your Twitter timeline shares. web
• Yorkie, Everyday Journal app iOS
• PiggyAlarm, an iPhone alarm clock. A collaboration with Daphane iOS
• iOS Development Nuggets Newsletter, a short, weekly newsletter you can read in a few minutes and improve your skills at iOS app development iOS
• IP Sidekick - IP Sidekick is a geolocation API that returns information about an IP address. You can use it to customize your content based on the visitor’s location or display their country web
• Apple Device Names - Apple Device Names is an API that lookups device names (iPhone10,6 → iPhone X) macOS web
• Commander Ling, an macOS app launcher macOS
• SimplyMeta, an iOS app to view and strip photo metadata iOS
• mLogger, A simple, log server for development running on macOS macOS
• Paperboard, a gallery of drawings shared from Paper app by FiftyThree. A collaboration with Daphane (now defunct) iOS web
• SimplyTweet (now defunct), one of the earliest full-featured Twitter app on iOS (now defunct) iOS

Brief Bio

Hwee-Boon Yar designs and writes software, with a focus on iOS / macOS apps and server/API services. He has launched top-ranking paid apps in the iOS app stores. He also has technical and presales experience in the search and information retrieval enterprise market.

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