About
I’m a bootstrapped founder/indie software developer building my own software products. I usually code in TypeScript, Swift and Ruby.
I write about my thoughts on products, marketing, code and random ideas here.
This is what I’m currently working on:
- Stacknaut — SaaS starter kit to build on a solid foundation with AI web
- TheBlue.social — Bluesky tools, 1-click to follow back Bluesky followers and browse Starter Packs web
- Codevetta — Architecture and code reviews service
- MyOG.social — OG Image Generation Service 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
- SummarizeVideo.ai, a video summarizer service web
- Ping Now, a website/API/service uptime monitor 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
- Tools and stacks that indie developers use to build their websites and apps — IndieDevUse.com web
- 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
Professional Work
Beyond my own products, I’ve built custom software for government agencies, large enterprises, and SMBs across a range of industries — including search engine deployments and bespoke systems. These projects are under NDA, so I can’t share details, but they represent years of hands-on experience shipping production software at scale.
Brief Bio
Hwee-Boon Yar designs and writes software, with a focus on iOS / macOS apps and web 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.