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@louischen737

Louis Chen

@louischen737·Joined January 2026

Indie developer building macOS & iOS apps

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Indie developer building macOS & iOS apps Maker of TapPause, PurrrrrFocus & more louisbuilds.me

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Louis Builds — Notes on Craft & Focuslouisbuilds.hashnode.dev3 posts

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I Thought a Dictionary Was Enough to Build an IPA App. I Was Wrong.

What I learned building an offline English-to-IPA formatter with sentence grouping, word-by-word layout, OOV handling, and teacher-friendly exports.

11 min read·louisbuilds.hashnode.dev

The 500MB Crisis: How a Technical Disaster Forced My macOS AI Tool to Evolve

From a simple web prototype to a high-performance macOS tool: Lessons learned from a 500MB deployment disaster.

3 min read·louisbuilds.hashnode.dev

Building TransMov: A macOS Video & Animation Tool for Designers and Developers

How I created TransMov: fast, local AI video processing for designers and developers.

2 min read·louisbuilds.hashnode.dev

About

Indie developer building macOS & iOS apps Maker of TapPause, PurrrrrFocus & more louisbuilds.me

Available for

Nothing here yet.

Louis Chen's blogs

Louis Builds — Notes on Craft & Focuslouisbuilds.hashnode.dev3 posts