Built in the open

THE MOSEY
BUILD LOG.

One solo developer, one idea, shipped in public for RevenueCat Shipaton 2026. Every screenshot, every lesson, every ship β€” as it happened. No polished retrospective; the real thing, in order.

● RevenueCat Shipaton 2026 Β· #BuildInPublic
61
Days building
4
Log entries
4
Public ships
1
Solo dev
AllShipsFeatures DesignLessons
JUL 16, 2026 FIXLEARN

The harmless redirect that broke HTTPS

I set up the site on GitHub Pages, but HTTPS would not provision. Namecheap still had a URL redirect from @ to www.usemosey.app. It looked harmless, but it made the root domain resolve through an extra IP.

Removing the redirect, confirming that only GitHub’s four A records remained, and re-adding the custom domain in GitHub Pages fixed it.

Future reminder: URL redirects can silently interfere with GitHub Pages HTTPS, even when the visible DNS records look correct.

#github-pages#dns#https
JUL 13, 2026 DESIGN

We found our walking name

Mosey is not about closing rings faster than somebody else. It is a small invitation to put on a good story and go somewhere on foot.

The name now matches that idea, and the app has a home at heymosey.app.

#branding#design
JUL 10, 2026 DESIGNLEARN

Motion, never location

Most fitness apps can infer where you live because every route begins at your door. Mosey does not request location permission at all.

Mosey only needs step count and cadence to make playback responsive. Those signals stay on the device. There is no route to upload because no route is ever recorded.

#privacy#engineering
JUL 5, 2026 FEATLEARN

The gate works. It feels like magic.

The first complete loop is running: the pedometer feeds the playback state machine, which fades the podcast in when motion begins and out after a short grace period when motion stops.

Traffic lights stay forgiving. Treadmills work because the system watches steps rather than distance. Most importantly, the phone can stay in your pocket.

#playback#motion

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