#essay{:title        "Tuno Is To Love",       :date         #inst "2026-01-15",       :reading-time "1 min"}

Tuno Is To Love

2026-01-15 · 1 min read ·

4+ years ago, I conceived of a privacy-focused Apple Watch app that would help me remember the people I met (When, Where, Who & with Who), but it did not exist

I thought of coding it by hand, but I haaaate doing iOS development coz Xcode is an abomination

mid-2023, I registered a domain
late 2024, I wrote a formal spec, but AI wasn't there yet to power the on-device features I needed, or to build it

today, I built it in one day with Claude Code from @AnthropicAI

the hardest part? fixing my $99/year @Apple Developer subscription that lapsed in 2020 and you have to email Apple to fix it

anyway, it's called Tuno, because Tuno is to Love.