App builder · building in public
Adam Kinney
I've been building software for 26 years, and I've never had more fun. Now I ship my own apps — with AI and crypto — and build them in the open: the code, the wins, the dead ends, the business. Out loud.
Now on the App Store
Comic Scry
Point your phone at any comic cover and get a triage tier — Bulk to Major — plus a price you can actually check against real sold listings. Five free scans, no signup.
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Building in public
I build my own apps, in the open
I ship my own apps with AI and crypto, and I build them in public — the code, the wins, the dead ends, and the business behind them. The Lab is where the apps live; the notebook is where I write it all down.
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The apps
What's live right now — the rest live in the Lab:
Comic Scry — iOS app that looks at a comic cover and tells you what it's worth, with value ranges backed by real sold listings. On the App Store.
Gurn — a face-controlled endless runner starring an emoji with arms and legs. The shareable clip is the whole growth engine.
Midway — a carnival where the paying customers are AI agents, and they pay in crypto. The weirdest little business I've ever run.
What I write about
Building the apps and the business behind them — build logs, and the money-and-distribution lessons I'm learning the hard way, in public. It lands first in Kinney's Notebook.
What else I make
Generative and illustrated-looking art. Candid photos of odd things nobody else is looking at. Clothes designed from my own photos and illustrations. Dry-humor videos about absurd everyday observations.
Same eye, different surfaces.
Kinney's Notebook
The working notebook from my app lab — build logs and the business lessons I’m learning in public, from shipping my own apps. Roughly weekly.