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Greg Schier 👨‍💻 @schier.co · 29/09/2026

Getting some very useful play data for my game platformpixels.com 😎 If you give it a play, let me know what you think!

Greg Schier 👨‍💻 @schier.co · 28/09/2026

Sick new command center for Platform pixels to be able to track level difficulty, player progression, and much more. I'm having so much fun over here.

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Greg Schier 👨‍💻 @schier.co · 27/09/2026

Took 5+ back-and-forths for this one

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Greg Schier 👨‍💻 @schier.co · 26/09/2026

I've been procrastenating on this game for 13 years... It's time to actually finish it 🚀🤘🏼

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Greg Schier 👨‍💻 @schier.co · 25/09/2026

This is the coolest thing ever:

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Greg Schier 👨‍💻 @schier.co · 24/09/2026

Heck ya, download survey showing AI is well in the lead!

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Greg Schier 👨‍💻 @schier.co · 24/09/2026

Mega Corp: I'd like to purchase... Me: [giddy] Mega Corp: A single license Me: Fuuuhh... Mega Corp: and please review this huge terms sheet Me: ☠️

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Greg Schier 👨‍💻 @schier.co · 23/09/2026

I’m switching roles at Yaak, from product to growth. It's much more capable than the 5k DAU would suggest. Right now the top of the funnel is: - people searching for Yaak by name - word of mouth - AI-driven recommendations (yay)

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Greg Schier 👨‍💻 @schier.co · 22/09/2026

Yaak just crossed $5k MRR. Every feature is MIT licensed and the app runs fully offline. I wasn't sure it would work but here we are... yaak.app/blog/fundin...

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Funding MIT Software with Commercial-use Binaries

Yaak earns about $5k MRR from commercial licenses for its binaries. Why I chose this model, how it's working…

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Greg Schier 👨‍💻 @schier.co · 21/09/2026

Crazy how bad AI still is at writing in a human way. Here I am still writing blog posts by hand.

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Greg Schier 👨‍💻 @schier.co · 18/09/2026

I Hope all the "ship to Maine" transcriptions in my agent chat history don't confuse it one day...

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Greg Schier 👨‍💻 @schier.co · 18/09/2026

Why has no one made this shirt yet?

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Greg Schier 👨‍💻 @schier.co · 17/09/2026

Best way to improve product docs ✨

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Greg Schier 👨‍💻 @schier.co · 17/09/2026

Still can't believe people are buying my lifetime license for 5x the annual rate! I keep raising the price but conversion hasn't really changed 🤯

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Greg Schier 👨‍💻 @schier.co · 17/09/2026

OS-specific screenshots are live. There's now shots for each combination of light/dark and mac/other

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Greg Schier 👨‍💻 @schier.co · 15/09/2026

I can't imagine working with other people anymore. I'm flying though stuff all day, at every level of company operation.

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Greg Schier 👨‍💻 @schier.co · 14/09/2026

Just added a post-download survey to see where people hear about Yaak, and surprised that 15% of all downloaders submit something 🤯 Not much data so far, so we'll see how it goes

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Greg Schier 👨‍💻 @schier.co · 13/09/2026

This is already one of the most useful things I've ever made 🤯

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Greg Schier 👨‍💻 @schier.co · 13/09/2026

Heck ya, Yaak appearing in job postings now!

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Greg Schier 👨‍💻 @schier.co · 12/09/2026

DR up to 54! Nothing I try really helps this anymore. Just have to wait for organic backlinks I guess...

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Greg Schier 👨‍💻 @schier.co · 12/09/2026

Most of Yaak's product dev is now automated via a feedback -> task -> implement -> review -> ship loop, powered by MCP. It's time to build a growth loop using the same principles. First step is monitoring the internet for signals that can turn into marketing tasks.

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Greg Schier 👨‍💻 @schier.co · 01/09/2026

August recap for Yaak 💹 MRR: $4,865 (+4.4%) 💰 Revenue: $5,586 (+14.9%) 💼 Subscribers: 432 (+0.9%) Missed the July recap, but things are moving in the right direction again. June was Yaak's first-ever monthly MRR decline, so seeing +4.4% this month feels pretty good. Slow and steady 📈

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Greg Schier 👨‍💻 @schier.co · 15/08/2026

Basically all new-feature contributions are: - On that's a nice idea - The design and code are bad - I reimplement it from scratch Just send the feature request...

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Greg Schier 👨‍💻 @schier.co · 14/08/2026

Is there anything more annoying?

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Greg Schier 👨‍💻 @schier.co · 13/08/2026

Sick, working on parsing out base64-encoded content!! Also collapsing other large strings to keep the app responsive. (UI not final)

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Greg Schier 👨‍💻 @schier.co · 12/08/2026

Best decision I even made for Yaak was adding a lifetime purchase at ~4.5x the annual price. It's more expensive than any app I've ever bought, but roughly half of individuals choose it.

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Greg Schier 👨‍💻 @schier.co · 29/07/2026

Of course... right after I start a new project, I get two team customers on the one that's been stalled for growth for months.

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Greg Schier 👨‍💻 @schier.co · 17/07/2026

I told you Liquid Glass was hard to read. What does this notification even say?

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Greg Schier 👨‍💻 @schier.co · 15/07/2026

Heck ya. Really enjoying camping lots but sucks to not be able to check in on things.

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Greg Schier 👨‍💻 @schier.co · 14/07/2026

Spent a week automating my entire feedback->release workflow, all on MCP. Wow. Just wow.

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Greg Schier 👨‍💻 @schier.co · 05/07/2026

Just added an admin MCP server to help automate Yaak feedback -> release planning.

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Greg Schier 👨‍💻 @schier.co · 05/07/2026

Shipped a new /download page for Yaak. Probably still needs work, but much better than before imo.

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Greg Schier 👨‍💻 @schier.co · 04/07/2026

Added date range selection and link to full analytics 👌🏼

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Greg Schier 👨‍💻 @schier.co · 04/07/2026

To assist my recent marketing efforts, I've added an analytics preview to each page (admin-only). It's not super useful yet, but it provides a quick way to see if a new page is getting any traffic.

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Greg Schier 👨‍💻 @schier.co · 03/07/2026

Hot take: iOS users don't hate green bubble people because of phone choice The issue is that green bubbles make text hard to read are just plain ugly. This makes people not like "green bubble people." If both were blue, this hate wouldn't exist (especially with RCS)

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Greg Schier 👨‍💻 @schier.co · 03/07/2026

Adding a new section to the landing. Almost all of Yaak's large business customers are in privacy/security sensitive industries, so going to lean in harder to this 🔐

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Greg Schier 👨‍💻 @schier.co · 02/07/2026

It's time to put on my marketing hat and actually fix my SEO (99% branded searches)

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Greg Schier 👨‍💻 @schier.co · 02/07/2026

Hey Fabel fix my business tnx

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Greg Schier 👨‍💻 @schier.co · 01/07/2026

Polishing a nice OSS contribution

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Greg Schier 👨‍💻 @schier.co · 30/06/2026

Contribution to Yaak's OSS repo is limited to bug fixes and small improvements. People seem to either not see this or ignore it and submit entire features. How can I make this more obvious without just closing contribution altogether? It's already on the Readme and PR template.

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Greg Schier 👨‍💻 @schier.co · 30/06/2026

June recap for Yaak 💹 MRR: $4,516 (−0.4%) 💰 Revenue: $2,444 (−55.2%) 💼 Subscribers: 427 (−1.4%) First monthly MRR drop in Yaak's lifetime. Weird because downloads haven't declined at all. I'm going to dig into the "why" this month. Wish me luck 🤞🏼

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Greg Schier 👨‍💻 @schier.co · 29/06/2026

The Yaak CLI now generates metadata for plugins at publish time, allowing the registry to do things like show a preview of the actual theme(s) it provides. yaak.app/plugins/@ad... 👈🏼

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Greg Schier 👨‍💻 @schier.co · 24/06/2026

Trying so hard not to retreat into the bush, permanently. Home-made camper now has solar and a fridge. Easily fits 2 adults, a 2-year old, and our 100lb dog 🐶

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Greg Schier 👨‍💻 @schier.co · 19/06/2026

It's hard to "upsell" a commercial-use license. Seems like lots of people think "oh ya, I'll do it later" but never do, because it's not blocking any features or use case. Thoughts on inline prompts like this?

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Greg Schier 👨‍💻 @schier.co · 19/06/2026

I love how AI means I can focus more on the design/UX Yaak will now run a wider query, by default, and suggest alternates when no results are returned.

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