Inkdrop Mobile v2 is Now in Private Beta

Hello there. I’m Takuya (craftzdog), the solo developer of Inkdrop.

A Simple Way To Run JS in Background Thread on React Native

CPU intensive tasks block UI, like indexing. Because, in React Native, JavaScript is executed on JavaScriptCore which means that you have…

Making HOC with prop type inference from Recompose and Redux connector in Flow

It seems like the type annotation for react-redux’s connect is not compatible with the recompose’s HOC type declaration. I often…

Get A Slow Tempo — Towards Becoming A Long-Running Product

I’m building a Markdown note-taking app called Inkdrop alone. Fortunately, I succeeded to make it a profitable product generating over…

Making A Syntax Highlighter Using CodeMirror For ReactJS

I’m developing a Markdown editor called Inkdrop and it provides beautiful syntax highlighting in code blocks. To implement this feature, I…

You Can Ignore All Complaints About Price Because They Will Disappear As Your Service Gets Mature

I’m developing a Markdown editor called Inkdrop alone. Recently it reached $1,600 monthly profit. I’d like to quit my freelance career once…

How To Add A Contact Form To A Static Website With AWS Lambda

A tutorial to build a contact email form using AWS Lambda and API Gateway. Recently I made an email form on my static website using AWS Lambda. In this article I would like to tell you how I built it.

VSCode-like environment with vim + tmux

I like Visual Studio Code, an IDE built on top of Electron, developed by Microsoft. What I like VSCode is that it is aimed for the modern…

🤘 Printing / PDF export / Improved syntax highlighting / RPM package

I’m excited to announce v3.12.0 which has been released yesterday. It has a lot of great improvements. Let me introduce each of them!

Enabling Vim Keybindings

As of Inkdrop v3.11.0, you can configure vim keybindings by installing vim plugin which provides following features:

The Next Roadmap of Inkdrop (vol.2)

Next roadmap of Inkdrop — The note-taking app with robust Markdown editor Recently, Inkdrop has finished previous roadmap which I posted last year. This was kind of long journey but it’s time to think about the next roadmap. There are a handful of ideas to improve it more…

How I Built a Markdown Editor Earning $1300/mo Profit —  Inkdrop

From idea to first sales and growth strategies Here I’m going to share my experience on creating a multi-platform app called Inkdrop alone and making it earn $1,300 per month.