I Shipped 3 Apps Simultaneously as a Solo Dev — Here's What Actually Worked

Everyone says focus on one thing. I ignored that advice and shipped three macOS/iOS apps at the same time. Six months in, here's what I learned about running multiple products solo — the stuff that worked, and the stuff that nearly killed the whole thing. The Three Apps A menu bar token counter — tracks LLM API usage in real time across providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.). Aimed at devs who vibe-code and want to stop guessing their AI costs. A feed-level distraction blocker — doesn't block entire apps like Screen Time does. It blocks specific feeds (Twitter timeline, YouTube homepage, Reddit front page) while keeping the useful parts accessible. A photo-based nutrition tracker — snap a photo of your meal, AI estimates the macros. No more typing "1/2 cup brown rice" into MyFitnessPal for 10 minutes. Different problem spaces. Different users. Same dev. What Actually Worked Shared infrastructure, separate codebases All three apps share the same CI pipeline, the same crash reporting setup,