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Local-first iPhone app for comparing contractor quotes by scope, tracking follow-ups, organizing files, and exporting decision packets before signing.

Local-first emergency kit tracker for iPhone with go bag, home kit, and car kit templates, expiration dates, offline reminders, no account, no ads, and no tracking.

Intermittent fasting tracker for iOS with a live fasting-stage ring, Lock Screen Live Activity, streaks, history, and a one-time Pro unlock. No subscription.

Local-first iPhone receipt tracker for return windows, warranties, image or PDF proof, reminders, encrypted backup, and one-time Lifetime Pro.

iPhone decision utility with coin flips, wheel spins, dice rolls, local history, and lifetime Pro.

Ambient sound mixer for iPhone with rain, thunder, fan, brown noise, white noise, ocean, forest, fireplace, cafe, and fireworks, plus Pro layering, saved mixes, timers, and one-time Pro.

Ad-free unit converter for iOS with live conversion, all 13 categories free, bundled currency rates, and a one-time Pro upgrade for live currency sync and unlimited favorites.

Privacy-first QR code scanner and generator for iOS with automatic scanning, multiple code types, and searchable history.

Daily micro-journal for iOS with mood tracking, streaks, Focus Shroud writing, and Memory Lane. No ads, with an optional one-time Pro upgrade.

Encrypted photo vault for iOS with AES-256-GCM encryption, biometric auth, decoy vault, opt-in break-in detection, disguise icons, zero cloud storage, no ads, and no tracking.

No-ads water intake tracker with one-tap logging, streak milestones, widgets, HealthKit, reminders, and a one-time Pro upgrade.

Gamified iPhone photo cleanup with 90-second rounds, four boss battles, Smart Clean filters, light and dark themes, and a one-time lifetime Pro with no ads, no tracking, and no subscription.

The official home for Victor Solano's iPhone apps, books, articles, and developer resources.

Inspect common photo metadata, remove it, resize the image, and create a fresh shareable copy.

Find exact prose patterns worth reviewing without an AI score, a rewrite, or a claim about who wrote it.

Compare options against weighted criteria and see exactly how each score affects the result.

Calculate contribution margin, break-even units and revenue, then compare named price or cost scenarios.

Create a clean, standards-compliant QR code for text or a URL and download it as PNG or SVG.

Paste a list, choose fairly with browser cryptography, and remove a winner before the next round.

Check a listing pack against source-linked App Store Connect rules before you submit it for review.

Validate, format, sort, minify, copy, and download JSON without sending it to a server.

ReceiptCrate marked a saved receipt as Expired because both deadline fields were empty. The tests stayed green because none of them had ever built that valid case.

Matt Pocock's repo gave me nine useful workflows. I rewrote them around my own rules, pinned the pack to the commit I reviewed, and added checks for drift.

Before publishing screenproof, I ran it on screenshots from apps I had already shipped. One folder came back with 16 findings: eight accepted PNGs with alpha channels, plus eight HTML files I had left beside them.

A clean install of metaproof's packed tarball failed before publication because Node refuses to strip TypeScript types under node_modules. I compiled the package before publishing 0.1.0.

Progressive skill-disclosure pattern for keeping agent context focused as capabilities grow.

Python implementation of FVG detection for Smart Money Concepts. Identifies liquidity imbalances in price action.

Circuit breaker pattern for halting trading after daily loss threshold. Resets at midnight UTC.

Pre-publish checklist for eliminating AI slop and injecting authentic voice into content.

The core color palette and typography variables used to build this digital garden.

Reusable DragGesture card stack with spring physics, rotation, and fly-away animations. Extracted from the SwipeClean iOS app.

File-system MDX blog loader with gray-matter frontmatter parsing, reading time estimation, and pinned post sorting.

CSS custom properties pattern for dark/light theme switching with Tailwind. HSL tokens for seamless mode transitions.

Production PM2 process manager config for Next.js on a Hetzner VPS. Auto-restart, log rotation, and memory limits.

Typed Zustand store with optional persistence middleware. Minimal state management for React apps.

Type-safe environment variable validation with Zod. Separates server and client schemas with graceful CI fallback.

Andrej Karpathy's framework redefining LLMs as CPUs with context windows as RAM. The foundation of Context Engineering.

Anthropic's research on AI reliability, the "Reliability Tax", and economic impacts of autonomous agents.

The standard for building AI-powered applications in Next.js. Streaming, tool calling, and structured outputs.

Inner Circle Trader's educational content on Smart Money Concepts, Order Blocks, and Liquidity Sweeps.

The gold standard for product design. A constant source of inspiration for high-fidelity interfaces.

Beautiful code snippet generator. Essential for high-fidelity technical content on social media.

The typeface used across Vercel products. Precision engineered for code and clean UI.

Affordable, high-performance VPS hosting for developers. Where thechosenvictor.com runs for $6.65/mo.

Automatic HTTPS reverse proxy with zero-config TLS. Replaced Nginx in the production stack.

Production Node.js process management with auto-restart, log rotation, and cluster mode.

The definitive iOS design reference. Essential reading before building any native Apple app.

Production animation library for React. Declarative spring physics and layout animations.

VS Code-quality syntax highlighting for the web. Powers the code blocks across this site.

I moved from Vercel to a $7 VPS. Here's what went right, what I'd do differently, and why I'm never going back.

Building a gamified photo cleanup app for iOS. The architecture decisions, the gamification math, and the tradeoffs that shaped SwipeClean.

The 2-hour process that catches issues your users will never report. A viewport-by-viewport review system for any web project.

Track every consumption vs. creation moment for 48 hours. Find out where your time actually goes.

The minimum viable day. Not a morning routine. The bare minimum that keeps momentum when motivation disappears.

Identify the 5 comfortable decisions you make daily that are quietly killing your progress.

Weekly review template. List what you did. Mark each item Motion or Progress. Calculate your ratio.

The core argument distilled. The rescue myth, the permission fantasy, and what to do about it.

List your principles. Write what each one has actually cost you. If the answer is nothing, it's a preference.

All 14 chapters with core arguments and reflection prompts. Pairs with the book, works standalone.

30-day tracking template. Hours consuming vs. hours creating. The only metric that matters.

The anti-planning framework. Decision tree for when you don't feel like it. Because you're never going to feel ready.

3 questions before starting any project. Separates real direction from productive procrastination.

Weekly audit for active projects. Is this shipping or is this a hobby? Honest criteria for the decision.

5 signs you're ghosting your own project while looking productive. The burnout nobody talks about.

The actual setup for ditching Vercel. Hetzner + Caddy + PM2 + deploy script. Real costs, real config.

The real split. Morning calisthenics. Afternoon weights. No optimization theater. Just reps.

Why the gym is the first domino. Not a workout plan. The argument for why physical discipline unlocks everything else.

Minimum viable fitness for someone starting from zero. 30 days of proving you can do something you don't feel like doing.

Patience protocol for entries. Rules for sitting through drawdowns. Emotional control checklist for trading.

Max daily loss, walk-away triggers, no-trade conditions. The rules that keep you in the game.

8 structural patterns that scream 'AI wrote this.' Quick-reference for anyone publishing written content.

3 mandatory pre-publish tests. Plaque Test, Niche Lock, Experience Anchor. Works for any content niche.

How to build a writing voice system from scratch. The questionnaire, the rules, the process of going from AI-sounding to authentic.

Lessons, decision frameworks, and checklists from shipping 3 iOS apps solo. The actual tools, the actual process, the actual mistakes.

A Sortes gallery image showed a UnitFlip back indicator. Other app pages carried stale screenshots or claims for features that were not shipped, so I audited all twelve pages against current app truth.

Two finished YouTube masters passed every automated check but still needed eight human listening verdicts. Four days later I archived the production system instead of keeping it active because the videos were finished.

I created a receipt with no return or warranty deadline. ReceiptCrate marked it Expired and put it in Alerts anyway. The tests were green because none of them had ever made that exact receipt.

I tried to publish the same book as a paperback and a Kindle eBook. The paperback is live. The eBook is stuck in Draft behind an error banner that highlights nothing, and the publish request comes back with an empty errors object.

Apple's screenshot spec page changed which 6.9-inch resolution it led with between two visits six days apart. The accepted-size list still included all three, which is why I stopped treating one prominent number as the whole spec.

I put AdMob in some of my apps for a little passive revenue. The pennies never covered what the SDK cost me in launch time and a clean privacy label, so I'm pulling it back out one app at a time.

I shipped the same book copy to Amazon's US and UK stores. The US store published it. The UK store flagged one word as violence and blocked the page, and the fix changed how I clear an automated filter now.

I kept changing App Store metadata one field at a time and made the results harder to read. Now I batch the title, subtitle, keywords, screenshots, and preflight checks before I submit.

I finished Product Hunt prep for the kit, checked the real surfaces, and cut the extra outreach. Launch day should be for replies, not panic.

I automated almost a whole publishing workflow today, then hit a wall a browser bot can't cross. The real skill is knowing where to stop and just do the last step by hand.

I sat down to plan the day and half the list was already done. The boring failure nobody warns you about: your records drift from reality.

A build log: two apps went live while my own site hid them, the lesson that came out of it, and a new code-only video style for the channel.

Introducing TheChosenVictor, the vault, and what to expect from this newsletter.

A field manual for ending the restart loop. Set a floor you can keep on bad days, repair a broken promise quickly, and track whether your word still means something to you.

A field manual for men drowning in productivity advice. Turn input into visible proof through daily standards, a scoreboard, and a thirty-day proof run.

14 essays about why people stay stuck, how preparation becomes hiding, and what actually happens when you stop waiting.

A planning system for solo operators who need a short, concrete queue. Choose the next five moves, put them in order, and stop rebuilding the plan every time the calendar opens up.

A ninety-day identity-rebuild protocol built around daily standards, deliberate practice, and a fixed review window.

A sixty-six-day system for replacing motivation with repeatable standards, physical discipline, and a routine that still runs on low-energy days.

A field manual for defining the standards, routines, and identity behind consistent results instead of chasing the result by itself.

A mindset and environment guide to abundance, and the earliest book in Victor Solano's current catalog.