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Independent app developer · United Kingdom
Apps that earn their place on the home screen.
GGRY is Sam Gregory. I design and build native iOS software end to end — the interface, the API behind it, and the servers it runs on. No agency, no template, no borrowed backend.
Native iOS Python APIs Self-hosted, UK Design in-house
The work
Software I've
put my name on.
Designed, built, shipped and maintained here. Each one runs on infrastructure I administer myself.
Radar
A monitoring service that watches the market and reports back. Built for my own use, running on the same box as everything else.
Next
Something new is in the workshop. More when there's something worth showing.
What I do
Native iOS
SwiftUI apps for iPhone and iPad, built to Apple's guidelines and taken through review.
APIs and data
Python services and the PostgreSQL behind them, scoped so a user only ever sees their own.
Infrastructure
My own UK servers and deploy pipeline. Nothing important sits on a platform I can't inspect.
Design
Interface, identity and the words around it — the other half of the same job.
The stack
Built like it has to
still run in five years.
No page builder, no template, no mystery platform in the middle. Every layer is one I can open up.
- Front end
- SwiftUI, native. iPhone first, adaptive on iPad. Light and dark. SWIFT
- Back end
- Flask and PostgreSQL, scoped per user at the application layer. PYTHON
- Hosting
- A UK VPS I administer myself. Nginx, Let's Encrypt, systemd. UBUNTU
- Deploys
- GitHub Actions on push to main. Nothing ships from a laptop. CI
- Accounts
- Sign in with Apple, verified server-side. No passwords to lose. APPLE
- Data sources
- Official government APIs where they exist — DVSA vehicle records, HMRC rates. GOV.UK
- Monitoring
- Radar, running alongside everything else and shouting when it should. RADAR
Who you're actually dealing with
I'm Sam.
GGRY is me. There's no team, no investors and no roadmap theatre. I do the design, write the code, run the server, and answer the email.
Doing all of it myself is the point, not a limitation: nothing ships that I don't understand end to end, and nothing gets claimed that I can't show you.
If you write to me, it lands with the person who built the thing you're writing about.
Say hello.
Curious about how something here was built, or got something you think I'd want to make? I read everything.