{
  "id": 16086393,
  "title": "I built 12 small Android apps: notes on scope, store listings and honest promotion",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/22/i-built-12-small-android-apps-notes-on-scope-store-listings-and",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-22T18:46:46.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/mycute_97b39c4e34027570f9/i-built-12-small-android-apps-notes-on-scope-store-listings-and-honest-promotion-4m74"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Pro Signal Studio, a small independent Android studio, recently released 12 apps. These apps are deliberately small and focus on one-thumb arcade games, football research tools for adults, and a crypto market-research app. The design of these apps was shaped by the constraint of keeping them small, with each app featuring a similar shape of one input, a short round, and immediate feedback. The studio avoided adding unnecessary features and focused on keeping the first ten seconds of the game clear enough to encourage players to continue. Each app has a unique store listing that includes a short description, age rating, disclosure of ads and in-app purchases, and screenshots that match the actual game. For the football apps, the studio was explicit about their purpose and rated them 17+. The crypto app is informational and does not promise returns. The studio promoted the apps honestly, avoiding fake urgency, identical messages, fake reviews, engagement pods, and countdown timers. The apps are free to download, and the honest call to action is to try the one that looks useful and leave feedback if something is broken. The studio would have batched the store metadata earlier and created support and privacy pages before the first release. The full index of the apps is available at 12 Android apps from Pro Signal Studio, and their Google Play developer page is Pro Signal Studio on Google Play. The studio encourages other small app developers to keep scope under control and share their methods.",
  "summary": "I run Pro Signal Studio , a small independent Android studio. I recently shipped 12 apps: seven one-thumb arcade games, four football research apps for adults, and one crypto market-research app. They are deliberately small. None of them tries to be a platform. That constraint shaped the design, the store listings and the way I promote them. Start with one repeated action Color Matching , Hit The…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}