Previous: Why does Mail app contact iCloud when sending a non-iCloud email? Articles index Jeff Johnson ( My apps , PayPal.Me , Mastodon ) August 10 2026 Ten years and one day ago, on August 9, 2016, I abruptly quit my job. I mark this occasion as the beginning of my indie software developer career. Happy anniversary to me and to my customers! I didn’t formulate a plan until after I quit. I decided that I could afford to indulge a dream, express myself, design and build my own app from scratch. I could be my own boss for once. My journey as an indie developer mirrored an enduring aphorism: it takes five years to become an overnight success. That night was September 19, 2021. At the time, I was about a month away from going broke, having burned through all of the savings I had accumulated before I quit my job. On the morning of September 20, however, Apple released iOS version 15, which added web browser extensions for mobile Safari.…