Yin Yuguang
STATUSACTIVEROLEiOS / TECH LEAD / INDIEBASEBEIJINGSINCE2016

Yin Yuguang

Ten years of iOS. Eight shipped, three still alive.

Half of it for companies, half for myself.

By day I lead 20-odd people on MiraiMind; the rest of the time I keep FreeLingo and Modian alive.

Backend, ops, design — I do those too. Not out of love; there’s just no one else to do it when you go indie.

TRACEThe shape of ten years2016 — NOW · 5 chapters

Y-axis is a rough scale of responsibility, not a performance metric

YRS10iOS yrs
SHIP8Shipped
LIVE3Live
TEAM20+Led
POSTS14Essays
ROUTE6Routes
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Still running

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Recently written

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When not writing code

the route →

On the Laozhanggou trip, one truck sat stuck in a riverbed for three hours.

Winch, sand ladders, bare hands — in the end we packed rocks under the wheels, one by one. Had to be out before dark.

Off-road didn’t teach me some “it’s just like shipping a product” lesson — it taught me that dark is a deadline that doesn’t negotiate.

  • Sishilixia
  • Laozhanggou
  • Aotouzhai
  • Zhulinsi
  • Hunshandake
  • Qinghai–Gansu Loop
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