I'm learning to build on Solana. I start small and keep the apps honest: they work offline, they carry no trackers, and they ask for nothing. This page is the record of where I am so far.
I want to help the Solana ecosystem grow in the way I actually can: by building. Not by talking about what someone else should ship, but by learning the tools, making something small that works, and then making the next thing a little harder.
So the apps here are deliberately modest. They run entirely offline, they contain no trackers and no analytics, and none of them are in the Solana dApp Store yet. I'm following the visual language of the ecosystem where I can, so what I make feels like it belongs on the device it lives on.
A cicada spends a long time underground before anyone hears it. That felt about right for this stage.
Two apps for Seeker. Both small on purpose — each one taught me something I needed for the next.
A plain calendar that keeps your days on your own phone. Nothing syncs, nothing leaves the device, and there is no account to make. It was where I learned to get an interface out of my head and onto a screen.
A quiet place to look through the photos already on your phone. No uploads, no cloud, no background services. This one taught me how to handle real data on a device instead of toy examples.
Roughly the order things happened in, in case it's useful to someone starting where I started.
I spent the first stretch just reading — how accounts work, what a program actually is, what the tooling expects of you. Very little of it made sense until I tried to use it.
Seeker Calendar came out of that. A simple, finished, offline app is a much better teacher than an ambitious one that never ships.
Seeker Photos meant dealing with real files, real permissions, and real edge cases. Small step, but a real one.
The plan from here is steady: keep the same standards — offline-first where it makes sense, no tracking ever — and start building apps that talk to Solana itself. Then publish properly.
A developer taking his first steps on Solana, building small things properly and moving up from there.