About Me

Hi, I’m Alex Hsu! 👋

I’m a solo iOS indie developer based in Asia. Currently developing several apps but the only one I’ve published is MARU: Easy Japanese. Before I started my indie journey, I worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Meta. I move around a lot and have lived in China, the US, Taiwan, and Japan.

I’m old.

Some of my interests:

🎮 Playing video games
🌝 Astrology
📚 Reading personal development books
🇯🇵 Japanese
📱 Digital Minimalism

For iOS developers who see this page, fun fact: I was actually a teaching assistant for the CS193P iOS course when I was a grad student at Stanford. That course was what got me started on iOS development!

I deleted most of my social media accounts to have a more quiet digital life. You can reach me through my email. I try to respond to all emails within 10 days (normally faster than that), except for spam or sales emails.

Posts about me

Projects

MARU: Easy Japanese — An iOS app for learning Japanese with over 1 million downloads
You Don’t Procrastinate in Video Games — A book I’m writing about applying gaming wisdom to real life
1440 Time Planner — Think of your day as 1440 minutes and plan your ideal routine
lofi jazz stories — A collection of lofi jazz tracks I curated using Suno AI

About This Site

This site is built with Astro.js and was created using “vibe coding” — 99% of the code was written by AI. To stop procrastinating and move fast, I took heavy design inspiration from stephango.com, the blog of Obsidian’s CEO. I plan to evolve the design into something more unique when I have time.