I forced myself to spend a week in Instagram instead of Xcode

This is what happens when you ban yourself from coding

Sep 12 • 

Daniel Hour

August 2025

"Am I crazy or does my engineering team not know what they’re doing?"

5 🚩 red flags every non-technical founder should know before & after hiring their dev team.

Aug 18 • 

Daniel Hour

3

August 12th, 2025

This is how I make sure I don't ship junk.

Aug 13 • 

Daniel Hour

1

I thought onboarding was pointless. Then I spent 3 weeks perfecting it.

Where are people? Show me people!

Aug 7 • 

Daniel Hour

1

July 2025

Introducing: Childish Folly

A proper totem for one of the best shows on TV.

Jul 2 • 

Daniel Hour

1

June 2025

Making an App Clip for Lagree Buddy

Along with an enamel pin!

Jun 3 • 

Daniel Hour

1

May 2025

MAU Vegas Recap

TLDR; required attendance for any dev that is making the switch (or thinking of making the switch) from salary to indie.

May 27 • 

Daniel Hour

5

2

The ImageRenderer ain’t Rendering

#DevNotes from building Lagree Buddy

May 13 • 

Daniel Hour

March 2025

Meet SUNDAYS (again)

Reintroducing: the sunscreen tracking app

Mar 20 • 

Daniel Hour

Destro Labs’s best day yet

So, why did it make me so depressed?

Mar 18 • 

Daniel Hour

1

1

Introducing: Lagree Buddy

A hyper-specific Apple Watch app for when you’re actively dying on your Megaformer but are still being told to move slower by the instructor.

Mar 8 • 

Daniel Hour

2

Making my way past the 405

to talk to one of my favorite iOS Developers, Tony Albor

Mar 2 • 

Daniel Hour

1