I build the apps I kept wishing existed.

I'm Hilal — an independent mobile app developer based in Oman. I design, build, ship and support every app myself.

It started the way most of these things do: with a problem I couldn't solve properly using anything already on the App Store. Every budgeting app I tried showed me where my money went. None of them could tell me why. The spreadsheet knew about the purchase; it knew nothing about the bad afternoon behind it.

That became Mira — a budgeting app that tracks the feeling alongside the figure, so the pattern driving your spending finally becomes visible.

Working alone shapes what gets built. There is no roadmap handed down from anyone, and no pressure to add features that demo well but nobody uses. It also means every shortcut becomes my problem later, so I take fewer of them than I would on someone else's deadline.

I work in public. I write about what I ship, what breaks, and what the numbers actually look like — partly because it is useful to other independent developers, and partly because building without an audience is a lonely way to spend your evenings.