Zatech is one developer. I make small iPhone apps for everyday problems, mine, or ones people tell me about. Right now that's Presence, an app that listens to how you rehearse and tells you the one habit worth fixing before the next take.
The app
The one I'm building for right now.
Hear how you actually sound.
Records your pitch, mock interview or wedding toast and scores your pace, pauses, fillers and intonation, then names the one habit worth fixing before the next take. Everything is analysed on the phone, so no recording of your voice ever leaves it.
The workshop
I build one thing at a time, so this list stays short. It changes whenever an idea turns out to be worse on a phone than it was on paper.
How I build
If a feature doesn't serve the single thing the app is for, it doesn't ship. Small apps are the only ones a solo developer can actually finish.
Nothing asks who you are, and nothing is collected that the app doesn't need to do its job. What happens on your phone stays there.
Every suggestion lands in one inbox and is read by the person who writes the code. A good idea can be in the next release.
If an app doesn't earn its place on a home screen it shouldn't be there. No clutter, no upsells, no features nobody asked for.
Who's behind it
I'm Maarten, a senior iOS developer in the Netherlands. Zatech is the name on the apps I build in my spare time.
They all come from the same place: an everyday problem I ran into myself, or one somebody told me about. If I can picture using it, I build it.
Feedback is the part I like most, and the appreciation people send back is what keeps me shipping. Something broken? Tell me and I'll look. Got an idea I haven't thought of? I want to hear that too, either way, one inbox, read by the person who writes the code: support@zatech.nl.
I'm always collecting them. Tell me what you keep working around.