I’ve sold Vora. A little less than 2 years ago, I embarked on the journey of Vora. Operating under my standard strategy of delivering ASAP in order to get feedback, it took a month from the first commit to publishing Vora on the app stores. The thrill of getting those…

The idea of Airquill is simple: trade stories with your friends. It’s like writing letters or stories to each other, with the catch being that you must both submit before anything can be viewed. The webapp is fully functional: airquill.com I viewed the project as a social experiment. The technical…

Full disclosure: I’m the creator of Vora, a fasting app that turns a small profit. I’ve seen a million ads for drugs. I’ve seen ads for essential oils, chiropractors, witch doctors, physical therapy, acupuncture, health coaching, yoga, etc. I’ve never seen an ad encouraging fasting. Of all the medical cures…

What you’re doing wrong Water Per Day 🌊 Water is an essential ingredient for our bodies. I strictly adhere to 8.23 glasses of water per day, as this is the amount of water recommended by experts. …

Every software developer has heard it: “How long do you think that will take?” And they are expected to respond with a single duration, to which they will be held accountable. This ignores uncertainty. For many professions, the uncertainty is small enough that reasonable predictions can be provided. For example…

Vora has surpassed 100,000 registered users! Some other awesome statistics: 52k monthly active users 66k pounds lost ⚖️ Nearly 1 million fasts 50k published fasts with 100k “likes” 👍 100k downloads and 1,000 ratings in the Play Store I also posted Vora on Product Hunt, pitched at a local meetup, and did a fun interview on the “Tomorrow’s Tech” podcast! I have yet to spend a single dollar on marketing Vora (not that this is optimal), so it’s been fun and surprising to see the progress it’s made.

Vora users have lost 12,000 pounds in a little over 2 months using the weight tracking feature of Vora. Vora is primarily a fasting tracker for those practicing fasting-driven diets. When users have logged some weight data, they can view it in a chart: Vora users who utilize the weight…

After 3 years and many hundreds of hours spent on side projects, I’ve earned my first dollar with the pro version of Vora, a fasting tracker available on iOS and Android. The pro version unlocks the 4 graphs to the right in the image below: Since yesterday, 12 users have…

2.5 months ago, on May 19th, I launched Vora on iOS and Android. Vora is a fasting tracker that’s mostly used by those practicing the intermittent fasting diet. Since the launch, 11,000 registered users have logged 41,000 fasts for a total of 100 years of fasting. My 2 cents on…