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43% of the visits go to ten apps: what the indie long tail looks like

If you ship an indie app, most of the attention will go to someone else. That is not pessimism, it is what the numbers look like when you count real visits instead of downloads.

  • Ten apps account for 43% of all recorded visits.
  • Remaining 252 apps share the rest of the attention.
  • Productivity category has 31 apps with 89 visits.

How We Run 4 Services From One Go Monorepo

We're building Towami — a commerce platform that combines white-label online stores with country marketplaces. One codebase produces four long-running services, each with a separate entry point and…

  • Towami uses a single Go codebase for four services: site, shops, admin, and worker.
  • Services have distinct entry points and responsibilities, forming a modular monolith.
  • Worker service processes tasks via Asynq using Redis queues and shared internal/ package tree.

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