18 years, one person.
Most apps like this one belong to a company. This one belongs to me. Here is how it happened, short version.
I really wanted to change something in my life. What came back to me was the advice of a friend and teacher: focus on supporting women.
2008 · Christian Albert Müller
Between a fishing town and Romania
I had left Bavaria years before. I was travelling back and forth between Dahab, a fishing town on the Red Sea, and Romania, and I really wanted to make a change in my life. That is when I remembered the advice of a friend and teacher: focus on supporting women.
I thought I could do that better
The first iPhone and Android phones were coming out. I started researching what was already there and found only very simple trackers. I thought I could do that better — with a calendar, with notes, with all of that. MyDays was born.
Then the years rolled
My daughter was born, and that was more exciting than code. I handed the app to freelancers and drifted away from the source while it kept running without me. Other apps copied it, some of them better looking than mine. That is the price of going first, and going first was still worth it.
Back at the keyboard
I came back because the tools finally let me build with the machine instead of against it. MyDays X has been rebuilt from the ground up, not painted over. Same calendar you know, underneath it a new app, on eighteen years of knowing what it is for.
There is no growth team here and no marketing department. When you write, it lands on my desk. That is either the charming part or the slow part, depending on the day.