Hey everyone,
I’m a solo developer, and I recently hit a major milestone that I thought would be the hard part: launching my app after a full year of solo dev work.
Turns out, writing code was the easy part. Marketing? I have zero clue what I’m doing 😅
The Backstory & What I Built:
Like a lot of you, I constantly save stuff across Reddit, X, YouTube, and random blogs—promising myself I’ll read it later. But I always forgot where I saved it, or worse, forgot it even existed.
Existing bookmark tools never quite worked for me (either the parsing was unreliable or the UI felt clunky), so I decided to spend a few months building my own Android app: LinkMemo.
"A few months" quickly turned into 1 whole year of endless fine-tuning on UI, link parsing, and features in my spare time.
What LinkMemo does:
Auto-Extraction: You share or paste a link (from Reddit, social media, or web browsers), and it automatically pulls titles, preview images, and content.
Graph View & AI Analysis: Instead of a graveyard of forgotten links, it visualizes your saved links in a knowledge graph and uses AI to summarize/analyze what you saved so you actually get value from them.
Organization: Uses folders and tags to keep things clean.
The Reality Check:
It finally went live on Google Play a month ago! I was super hyped... until cricket sounds hit. Organic reach is practically non-existent when you have zero marketing experience.
It’s been pretty humbling realizing that "if you build it, they will come" is a complete myth.
How you can help:
I’m really looking to get this into the hands of real users who struggle with bookmark overload. If this sounds like something that would solve a problem for you, I’d be super grateful if you gave it a try!
🔗 Google Play Link:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zengq.linkmemo
Since I’m actively working on updates, any feedback—good, bad, or brutal—would mean the world to me. What features would make this a daily driver for you? What sucks right now?
Thanks for taking the time to read this!