A Month of Refreshing App Store Promotional Text Weekly with Gemini
Notes from one month of rewriting App Store promotional text (the 170-character line above the description) weekly with the Gemini API. How I reused a slot that ships without review, what I handed to AI, what I always touched by hand, and whether it moved anything.
Designing a Semantic Clustering Pipeline for App Reviews with Gemini Embeddings
How I cluster 10,000+ app reviews from my indie apps using Gemini Embeddings to compute improvement priorities. The three-layer pipeline and cost design that emerged from a year of running it.
Three Weeks Rewriting 40 App Store Descriptions in Gemini Advanced Canvas
Notes from three weeks of rewriting 40 App Store descriptions in Gemini Advanced Canvas. What I let the AI handle, what I always touched by hand, and the small ASO effects I observed across my wallpaper and well-being apps.
Six Weeks of Running an App Store vs. Google Play Review Diff with Gemini
A six-week record of using the Gemini API to classify App Store and Google Play reviews in parallel and surface platform-specific priority items. Notes from running this on an indie wallpaper app with 50M+ cumulative downloads, including the three platform gaps that actually showed up and the monthly cost.
Automating App Store and Google Play Review Replies with Gemini API — The 8-Second Rule I Discovered the Hard Way
A practical implementation record of automating multilingual app review replies using Gemini API, based on managing apps with 50M+ cumulative downloads. Covers the undocumented 8-second wait rule that Apple's API silently enforces.
Making Gemini API 12x Faster with asyncio: Lessons from Multilingual App Store Generation
How parallelizing Gemini API calls with asyncio cut multilingual App Store description generation from 13 minutes to 65 seconds — including Semaphore-based rate limit handling and what changed when moving from google-generativeai to google-genai.
Gemini API × SwiftUI in Production: Streaming, Multimodal, Error Handling, and App Store Submission
A production-grade guide to integrating the Gemini API into SwiftUI apps at production quality. Covers streaming responses, multimodal input, error handling, test strategies, and App Store submission requirements.