App Marketing OS: I built the marketing team I don't have

Here's the uncomfortable truth about being a solo maker. I can build the product. I'm good at that now. But building was never what kills indie apps — the graveyard is full of good apps nobody heard of. Marketing is the killer. And marketing is the exact thing I keep skipping because there's no one to hand it to.

So I built the person to hand it to.

App Marketing OS bundles the five channels an indie app actually needs into one suite. Reddit marketing. App Store Optimization. Web and SEO. A launch tour planner. Creator content. Not because those are exotic — the playbook is honestly pretty well known — but because knowing the playbook and running all five consistently, every week, alone, is where everyone falls off. Including me.

Under the hood it's a FastAPI backend doing the heavy lifting with Claude, and SQLite because I wanted it dead simple to run, not a cloud project with a bill attached.

It grew to all five modules and I've verified it works. And the funniest, most obvious next step is staring right at me: I have six other projects that all need marketing. So I'm going to point this thing at my own portfolio and let it earn its keep on me first. If it can't market my stuff, it has no business marketing anyone's. Best kind of test there is — the one where you're the guinea pig.