How much screen time can I get for standing out in the rain storm?
Today's domestic negotiations: a sick kid wants ten minutes of screen time braving a rain storm (denied; he went anyway), and a finger that lost to a heavy board, turned purple, but still bends fine. No medical bills this time.
I have a handful of apps. Most of the recent apps have a very common backend. Each successive app has a more mature version of that backend. The backend handles account / user management, Stripe integration, purchasing / purchase restoration, debug logging, simple analytics, etc.
This idea has been haunting me – lurking in the back of mind – for a while now, which is that I really need to merge together the superset of all of this backend functionality into a single, multi-app backend that I can reuse for each new app. And, I need to make it multi-tenant so that others can use it as well.
I'm starting that today. I'm excited about it. There's a lot of drudgery in app development that no one wants to deal with. If I can alleviate that, all for a very modest price, I know that I'd personally sign up for that in a heartbeat.
I've tried other services that attempt to ease this same burden, and they've uniformly sucked. They're invariably more complicated to understand than the underlying services they attempt to simplify, which is a whole new level of frustrating.
I'll also work in "web" as a client platform. One of my apps allows for web-based account management. There's no reason a web-only service couldn't make use of this as well.
Even if I never get a single customer sign-up, this work will pay dividends for me personally.
