How I Learned Multiple Skills for Making Apps Alone (Video)

Making app alone requires various skills. In this video I talk about how I’ve got them. Just Build It!

Takuya Matsuyama

18 Jan 2019 — 1 min read

Hi, it’s Takuya here. I’m a solo developer of Inkdrop, a Markdown note-taking app — which I made alone. I did all things for it from planning, coding, designing, providing user support to monetization. Solo development requires various skills. Here I made a video talking about how I got such skills for my solo developments. It is also a history of my creativity. Hope you enjoy!

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