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Loby Loy

@lobyloyJoined August 2025

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How Genre Hybridization is Transforming Mobile Gaming

The mobile gaming landscape is undergoing a quiet revolution. Once divided by clear genre boundaries of puzzle, RPG, strategy, idle, or simulation. However, today’s most successful titles now defy easy classification. This new era of genre hybridizat...

Oct 29, 2025 · 8 min readtheapplense.hashnode.dev

Building Beside Giants: Why Companion Apps Are the Smartest Products You Can Build

On a quiet Saturday afternoon in 2016, Pokémon GO players flooded city streets, chasing digital creatures in parks, cafés, and living rooms. Amid the excitement, a small app called Poke Genie quietly transformed the experience. It wasn’t competing wi...

Oct 23, 2025 · 4 min readtheapplense.hashnode.dev

How CapWords Designs Engaging Learning Experiences with Cameras and Flashcards

A familiar challenge that many app developers face is users download, briefly engage, and disappear. Users may install an app based on its marketing or store description, only to find that it does not meet their specific needs or offers less value th...

Oct 16, 2025 · 4 min readtheapplense.hashnode.dev

How PBJ: The Musical Engineered App Growth Without Big Budgets

Most apps that rise to the top of the App Store charts in 2025 share a familiar playbook of precision ad targeting, aggressive influencer campaigns, and multimillion-dollar UA (user acquisition) budgets. But occasionally, a title breaks through by do...

Oct 3, 2025 · 5 min readtheapplense.hashnode.dev

From Growth to Monetization: Investment Signals from Meta's Threads

By September 2025, Threads surpassed 400 million monthly active users (MAUs) just two years after launch. For investors, this growth story is not just about Meta’s execution but it is also about how quickly markets are shifting toward super apps, dec...

Sep 25, 2025 · 4 min readtheapplense.hashnode.dev

Loby Loy

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Loby Loy's blogs

How Genre Hybridization is Transforming Mobile Gaming

Building Beside Giants: Why Companion Apps Are the Smartest Products You Can Build

How CapWords Designs Engaging Learning Experiences with Cameras and Flashcards

How PBJ: The Musical Engineered App Growth Without Big Budgets

From Growth to Monetization: Investment Signals from Meta's Threads

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Loby Loy

About

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Loby Loy's blogs

How Genre Hybridization is Transforming Mobile Gaming

Building Beside Giants: Why Companion Apps Are the Smartest Products You Can Build

How CapWords Designs Engaging Learning Experiences with Cameras and Flashcards

How PBJ: The Musical Engineered App Growth Without Big Budgets

From Growth to Monetization: Investment Signals from Meta's Threads