Indie app studio · est. 2026

Software, made by one person, for real humans.

Useful apps with information that actually makes sense. No bloat, no dark patterns, no quarterly roadmap.

What I make

Small apps that do their job well.

One product is live. Two more are deep in development. Each one starts with a real problem someone I know is actually having — then gets built, refined, and shipped without a focus group ever entering the room.

Live 📋

Crafty Planner

for handmade business owners

The whole "running your craft business" thing — orders, customers, expenses, invoices, taxes — built for the phone you actually use. No spreadsheets. No laptop. No monthly anxiety.

craftyplanner.app →
Beta ⛈️

TT Weather

for weather watchers

Forecasts, severe alerts, sun path, ISS passes, and the kind of hour-by-hour detail you actually want — all in one calm, dark interface. Built for people who like knowing.

TT Weather screenshot
launching after Crafty Planner →
In development

Caddie

for golfers

A pocket caddie — handicap tracking, wind-adjusted club recommendations, hole-by-hole notes. Built for the golfer who wants smart info without a $99/year membership.

Caddie screenshot
coming later this year →
The lab

Things I built because I wanted to.

Side projects, prototypes, and apps built for family. Not for sale, not in app stores — just the kind of thing a developer makes when an idea won't leave them alone. Here for the curious.

// status: personal · source: solo

GameDay Vintage

Personal

A retro-styled multi-sport dashboard — live scores, box scores, play-by-play, and fantasy lineup tracking across the NFL, NBA, MLB, and NHL. Built around the look and feel of an old ballpark scoreboard.

GameDay Vintage
Single-file PWA Cloudflare Worker Fantasy OAuth Live polling

Dragon Academy

Personal

An educational PWA built for younger family members — math, reading, science, and social studies wrapped in a dragon-trainer adventure. Mini-games, a fish-economy progression system, and quizzes keyed to grade level.

Dragon Academy
PWA Claude API Mini-games Progression system

Arcade

Personal

Nineteen classic arcade and puzzle games rebuilt from scratch in vanilla JavaScript — Tetris, Galaga, Snake, Minesweeper, Solitaire, and the rest. Persistent leaderboards, a CRT-green retro shell, no ads, no microtransactions.

Arcade
Vanilla JS Canvas 19 games localStorage
About the studio

A second shot at the thing I always wanted to do.

Tyriah App Studios is a one-person operation run out of Loveland, Colorado.

I grew up in Amarillo, Texas, and lived there for thirty years before heading to the mountains. I've always wanted to be a developer — even started college trying to be one. It didn't pan out the first time around.

This studio is the second attempt. The goal hasn't changed: build apps that make sense, that are actually usable, with information that's worth your time. The kind of small, careful software that big companies stopped making a decade ago.

Every app you see here is designed, built, tested, supported, and maintained by one person. That's not a limitation — it's the whole point.

studio Tyriah App Studios
based Loveland, CO
founder Ty McKinney
est 2026
team_size 1
apps_live 1
in_progress 2
contact tyriahappstudios@gmail.com
// what this studio doesn't do · and what it does
  • No tracking pixels, no behavioral analytics
  • No dark patterns or fake urgency
  • No subscriptions for things that should be one-time
  • No quarterly roadmap promises
  • No AI features bolted on for a press release
  • Real software built by a real person
  • Bug fixes that ship the same week
  • Direct contact with the developer when you email
Get in touch

Got an idea, found a bug, or just want to say hi?

tyriahappstudios@gmail.com