How I Built BackPocket and Submitted It to Both App Stores in Eight Days
Eight days ago, our GitHub repo had one commit in it that said first commit. Today it has 167, an iOS build sitting in App Store review, and an Android build in closed testing on Play.
The app is called "BackPocket: pin and reuse info". It saves the things you retype constantly — a policy number buried in a PDF, a Wi-Fi password, the reply you send ten times a week — and hands them back from a custom keyboard while you're typing in any other app. Everything stays on the device. No account, no server.
I'm not going to write the version of this post where everything went well. The useful parts are the four or five moments where it didn't.
The BackPocket Team
This is the backstory of BackPocket. Arjun and I went to the same university, twelve years apart, so we never once overlapped...
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