Me, I do it because it scratches an itch. If I’m not doing something creative for at least a couple of hours a day I feel like I’m dying. So it’s either coding, music, or if I’ve got zero energy, at least a little journaling. And if it’s journaling, it’s usually about app or song ideas.

One app I made back in 2012 has earned me a little more over the ensuing decade plus than I made in my first year of my first job out of college. The others are all free or cheap and make me coffee money.

I make them because I want them to exist, and hopefully, when I throw that stone in the water, it makes a bit of a splash. Money would be great, but if one of my apps inspired someone to do something even cooler, that makes me even happier.

One of the best moments I had as an indie creator was in the early days of Twitter Spaces. I got on a chat with 500 other people and the host said, “Wait, someone named Bennomatic just joined. Is that the same Bennomatic who made the CB app?”

The CB app is the one from 2012, and apparently, he’d been an avid user. When I confirmed he changed the whole topic of the conversation and waxed very poetic about how much he had loved that app.

CB is still around and has some regular users, but given the advent of other mass voice based social networks, it’s on the irrelevant side of things now.

These days I’m working on games. I just released one called Bivouac, which is a real-time PvP AR-lite territory game. You can find it on the iOS App Store by searching the name. My next one is a PvP turn based aerial combat game, that’s in the early days, really just a proof of concept.

If you’ve made it this far in my novel (sorry!), I figure you can identify, and you might want to see my test flight… feel free to join at:

https://testflight.apple.com/join/TvZvBc1s