Three commits this week. One of them is the Sunday autopost script doing its thing. The other two are the ones that actually matter: Sommelio is live. Not 95%, not TestFlight-only — live, on iOS, on Android, in the stores. Thursday morning I pushed two commits to marcelrgberger.com and flipped the project card from “in beta” to “live on iOS & Android”. That is the week.
Sommelio Ships — and One Link Gets Dropped
The project card update sounds trivial. It is not, really. Marking something as live is a commitment. TestFlight is a soft promise. “Live on iOS” means anyone can download it. That shift matters to me, and it is the kind of thing I want the public record to reflect honestly.
The Android side has a small story attached. I had already wired up a Play Store link on the card — anticipating that the Android release would follow the iOS one closely. It did not. The Play Store submission took longer than expected, and rather than leave a dead link pointing nowhere useful, I dropped it. One commit, refactor(projects): drop unused Sommelio Play Store link, and then immediately a second one, feat(projects): mark Sommelio as live on iOS & Android, once the status was confirmed.
That two-step is a small example of something I run into constantly in solo work: you build something slightly ahead of reality, then have to tidy up when reality moves differently than you planned. Leaving a broken Play Store link would have been fine for a day or two. Leaving it for a week while the submission worked through review would have looked careless. So I cut it, then added the correct status once it was true. Clean over clever.
I will add the Android store link back when it is live. No placeholder, no “coming soon” badge — just the real link when the real thing exists.
What I Did Not Ship This Week
The architecture thinking I mentioned last week — the two projects I was drawing boxes for — is still in boxes. That is fine. One of them got a bit clearer; the other got more complicated the longer I looked at it. Neither is ready to write about yet, and I would rather say that plainly than dress it up as “exciting things in the pipeline”.
The autopost commit on Sunday is worth a one-line mention: the site is still running the weekly automation that takes the previous week’s MDX file and pushes it into the content folder. It works, it is boring, and boring automation is the best kind.
The Honest Week
Three commits. One meaningful launch. One small cleanup that kept the site honest. One automation doing what it is supposed to do.
If you are building a product yourself, or thinking about having one built, this is what the tail end of a launch actually looks like: not a big push, but a few small commits that close the loop. The hard work happened in the weeks before. This week was confirmation.
Sommelio is on the App Store. If you are curious what a finished iOS app looks like coming out of a one-person shop, that is a real example. And if you are thinking about what it would take to build something similar, the services page is the right place to start.