A quick rundown of features:

1. Feed types: RSS, JSON, Atom. GDELT and Polymarket feeds also supported.
2. Views: a standard 3-column view, a newspaper-style card view and a TV view which shows the articles with a Ken Burns effect+QR code (if you wanted to display it on a TV/monitor for passive news intake or if you hate cable news like I do)
3. News radio built-in - launching with 10 public radio stations integrated from NPR and CBC. Listen to the news while you browse your feeds
4. Light and dark modes
5. 10 themes with font/scale variations to choose from
6. Zero cloud or AI functionality. All of the feed data is stored locally on your Mac. Feeds can be refreshed automatically at the cadence you specify, and you can store the data for up to one year
7. Weather information conveniently integrated in the top toolbar (you can specify a city or use your location data)

I'm now a published app developer in the iOS App Store, Mac App Store and Google Play! I plan to keep shipping this year, and have a couple of apps on the burner so stay tuned!

I'm also working on my first paid app, a camera app. More to come on that soon.

This Thursday I will be at Code with Claude: Extended in San Francisco. I am beyond excited. I'll get to hear an intro session from Boris Cherny, creator of Claude Code! Afterwards, I'll be attending a variety of sessions all day long on both the Founder and Builder stages. After all, I'm wearing all the hats at Hudley Holdings LLC.

Also planning a Hawaii vacation for July, and getting ready for a cruise in a couple of weeks to Mexico from SF. Life is good these days! Pic below from last month's roadtrip across the southwest. Grand Canyon was awesome!

Officially a published Android app and iOS app developer.

They said I couldn't do it. I did it.

AI has democratized software development. It only gets crazier from here. It comes down to creativity, quality of ideas and determination now. You don't need a VC firm backing you.

Stay tuned -- I have several other apps getting ready to launch. I think I may have 10+ apps published in the app stores by EOY.

I'm also considering submitting my News App native Mac reader app to the App Store as well.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tuner-app-tune-guitar-bass/id6760322187

This was a lot of work and a long time coming! I learned so much from how to form the LLC in California, business considerations, how the Apple App Store review process works, App Store Connect, TestFlight, etc. This was a fantastic learning opportunity for me. The Android / Google Play equivalent (a 1:1 clone of the iOS app) is almost finished as well -- expect to see it live in the Play Store within a week or two!

https://github.com/hudleyholdings/NewsApp

Driving the one on the left from Petaluma to Little Rock next month!

First app submitted to iOS App Store. Woohoo!

I'm convinced that if you're dedicated enough and willing to pay for Codex 5.4 and Opus 4.6 usage, you can build any app that you can imagine.

Inject this into my veins.

Updates: California LLC launched, Apple dev account (Business) approved, Play Store Business dev acct approved. Now to launch a few apps.

I've been coding to this album and other Tortoise LPs this week. Great band.

New LLC formed: Hudley Holdings LLC

So much. So I thought I’d write a quick blog post on it.

I spent the majority of 2025 in learn mode. I started off building using Cursor, but quickly transitioned to Claude Code. Then Codex+Claude Code. As of November, I’m using Google’s new Antigravity IDE along with Claude Code via Terminal. Things move fast in this space.

I’ve probably built 150+ prototypes and working websites and applications.

I’m so confident at the pace of progress in the vibe coding space that I’m formally launching an LLC in January 2026 as a shell company for all of my app and website projects in “incubation” status (ie all of them). No more launching everything on free tier Cloudflare or Firebase plans, or designing everything for ‘the edge’. Most of the time, you’ve got to spend some money to make money. And trust me, you’ll be spending some money if you decide to start an LLC in the great state of California.

Anyways, here’s a recap of some of the more interesting projects I’ve worked on this year.

Lemur: Spatial Camera

This one I’m perhaps most excited about. Using Claude Code and Google Gemini 3 Pro + Antigravity IDE, I was able to get the Pixel 10 Pro XL to record both rear ultrawide and wide in perfect synchrony in 4K, which results in stunning 3D videos. I plan to release the app in Q1 2026. I am refining the precision of the rectification of the ultrawide which must be cropped and ‘undistorted’ to perfectly match the wide angle lens. Even in their current imperfect state, the videos are absolutely stunning when viewed in 3D using a Meta Quest 3 headset.

Apple ML-SHARP + Quest 3 optimized AR/VR splat viewer

This is now the number two post all-time on the r/GaussianSplatting subreddit. I decided to combine the new ML-SHARP model with AI generated, depth-heavy landscapes for viewing in VR/AR. The result is an awesome, immersive experience in the Meta Quest 3. Here’s the post link.

Leia

This is another AR/VR (XR?) centric app. I developed an iOS app and companion web viewer which enables you to record 3d point cloud videos using the TrueDepth selfie cam on all iOS devices with a FaceID sensor (almost all of them). This looks amazing in Quest 3 as well although it doesn’t necessarily come across that way in the screenshot above. The main killer feature of this app is that it’s not that compute or bandwidth intensive, so you can do live stream calls in 3d with someone. I’d say the ETA to ship this is Q3 2026.

BikeChat

Off-grid, high quality voice or video calls for the moments you can’t get a connection but need to stay in touch. Think bike rides with your buddy, hitting the slopes with a group of friends without steady cell connections, working on a remote construction project. You can connect some AirPods, call the other person and connect -- and it’s possible to maintain connection beyond a football field’s length using bluetooth, Wifi direct or some combination thereof.

Famban

This is a web app with a realtime Firebase backend and auth. It’s a kanban board aimed at families or small businesses. You can create as many boards as you want, and view them all as a Master board. Archive functionality, fun confetti when you complete a task. I also have a half-finished iOS app with nice haptics when you drag tasks between lanes. This is purely for my wife and I to use, but I could see myself actually releasing this as an iOS app + web app at some point.

FreeGuitarTuner.net

This one is launched in several languages and lets you easily tune the most popular stringed instruments. I’m doing pretty well organically with this one, and get lots of international traffic. I have an iOS app that is ready and waiting to be launched once the LLC is formed in 2026.