Robin Kanatzar
iOS & Android engineer and accessibility advocate, building a portfolio of small apps (and flipping a few) between diaper changes.
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July 20, 2026 · Meet Robin
Robin is an iOS and Android engineer and accessibility advocate who started her indie journey in January 2026. She’s a new mom, and as she puts it, she’s often shipping app updates between diaper changes.
Instead of betting everything on one app, she’s building a portfolio of small utility apps, and experimenting with “app flipping”: buying an under-optimized app that’s already on the store, making it better, and growing it from there.
Right now her focus is MyCommute, a traffic monitoring app she’s committed to updating every single day until it’s in a state she’s proud of. (If you have a regular commute, she’d love to know what you’d want fixed or added.)
What she’s racing toward: getting her portfolio into a strong position before her second child arrives in September.
It’s a race against time, and I might be that person who brings her computer and Fable 5 into the delivery room. Wish me luck.