I Made Two AI Sisters the Face of My Indie App So I Wouldn’t Have to Show Mine
Amana is a solo-built iOS app that renders the sky outside your window from your time, location, and the sun's position, and tries to get you to walk outside and give a real sky a name. It shipped for the RevenueCat Shipaton on 6 August 2026. The problem this post is about came after shipping: an app with no face is hard to point at.
Why characters, and why two
I do not want to be on camera, and a brush-lettered logo cannot talk. So the app got two spokespersons. Akane, the elder, belongs to dusk. Kahatare, the younger, belongs to the hour before dawn. Their names come from old Japanese words for the two twilights, both of which literally ask "who is that?", the hours when faces blur. They share the app's name as a surname.
The two-sister setup was a marketing choice that turned out to carry a...
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