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Focus Tycoon
Focus app · iOS · Shipped
A timer that pays you. Every uninterrupted minute raises a street, a tower, a district you keep forever.
On the App StoreThe name
余韻
余韻yo — in
In Japanese, 余韻 is the resonance that lingers after a sound has faded. The echo of a bell nobody is ringing any more.
That is exactly what I want from an app: something left over after you close it. A feeling, a habit, an idea still sounding quietly.
The background of this page is a real wave simulation: every move you make drops a ripple that spreads, collides with the others and dies away. And the colour runs from the deepest indigo to paper as you scroll.
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Ember
Habits · iOS · In development
Keeping a habit alive on the days you don't feel like it. A missed day isn't failure — it's weather.
2026
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Atlas
Ideas · Research
A home for ideas collected faster than they can be used. Still without a final shape, deliberately.
Soon01 / 03
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Focus Tycoon
A focus timer that pays you. Every uninterrupted minute becomes a street, a tower, a district.
- Role
- Everything
- Platform
- iOS · iPadOS
- Shipped
- 2026
- Status
- Live
The problem
Focus apps punish you. Break the timer and you lose the streak, kill the tree, fail the session. Guilt is a terrible engine — it works for a week, then the app gets deleted.
The approach
Flip the reward. Focused time is currency, and that currency builds a city that is permanently yours. Nothing is ever destroyed, so coming back after a bad week feels like returning to something you own, not something you ruined.
The result
Sessions people finish and — the number that actually matters — people still opening it in month three.
- 01Focus compoundsMinutes become materials; materials become a skyline you keep.
- 02No punishmentBreak a session and you keep everything already earned.
- 03Home & Lock Screen widgetsYour city and your next session, one glance away.
- 04Offline firstNo account, no sign-up, nothing leaves the device.
- 05Built for one handEvery control sits inside thumb reach.
9:41◗◗◗
24:00
Deep focus
District 04+320
Session
9:41◗◗◗
Your city
12 blocksLv. 7
Empire
9:41◗◗◗
This week
14h
Streak 21+18%
Statistics
1Person behind it
100%Design and code in-house
“Nothing you build is ever destroyed. Coming back after a bad week should never hurt.” Design principle — Focus Tycoon
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Ember
Keeping a habit alive on the days you don't feel like it. A quieter answer to streak apps that shout.
- Role
- Everything
- Platform
- iOS
- Stage
- In development
- Target
- 2026
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Atlas
A home for ideas collected faster than they can be used.
- Role
- Everything
- Platform
- To be decided
- Stage
- Research
- Target
- Announcing soon
Method
Idea to App Store
Four steps, always the same.
01
Find the itch
Start from a problem I actually have. If I wouldn't open it daily, it doesn't get built.
02
Draw it first
Every screen in Figma before a line of code, including the empty and error states nobody plans for.
03
Build in the open
Ship to TestFlight early, watch real people use it, cut whatever they never touch.
04
Launch and keep going
Store page, screenshots, icon, updates. Launch day is the start of the work, not the end.
Studio
The person behind it
Alberto Valverde · Quito
I make apps alone, on purpose. No team, no handoffs, no telephone game between design and code.
That means I sketch the idea, design every screen, write the Swift, draw the icon, shoot the screenshots and press submit. Slower on paper, faster in practice — the decisions that usually die in a handoff just get made.
It also means the details nobody asks for get done anyway: the animation curve, the empty state, the haptic that lands exactly on the beat. Those details are the product.
By day I work at Mondo Tracking (Miami): operations, technology and support for fleets — ELD, GPS, dashcams and the automations that hold it together. By night, yoin labs. Software engineer (UDLA) with a master's in applied Artificial Intelligence.
3Apps in flight
4 yrsIn tech, professionally
100%Solo shipped
Capabilities
What I actually do
Design
- Product & UX design
- iOS interface design
- Motion & micro-interaction
- App icon & brand identity
- Design systems in Figma
- Prototyping
Build
- Swift & SwiftUI
- UIKit interop
- Core Data & SwiftData
- StoreKit 2 & subscriptions
- WidgetKit & App Intents
- Accessibility & VoiceOver
Ship
- App Store submission & review
- Store listing & screenshots (ASO)
- TestFlight beta programs
- Analytics & retention
- Pricing & monetisation
- Launch & press outreach
Curriculum
Full history
2025 — now
Founder & independent app developer, yoin labsDesigned, built and shipped Focus Tycoon solo: concept validation, product strategy, UI/UX, code, testing, App Store release and iteration. Two further apps in development.
Self-employed
2024 — now
Solutions & Operations Specialist, Mondo Tracking LLCFleet telematics and ELD: technical support, implementations, IT operations (Microsoft 365 and Entra ID), digital presence and SEO, CRM, and internal n8n automations that keep support scaling.
Miami, FL
2023
IT Support Manager, Universidad de Las AméricasManaged tickets escalated to the university helpdesk and coordinated with external providers across HCM, MM, FI, SD, CO, Employee Central and Recruiting/Onboarding modules.
Quito, EC
2022 — 2023
Information Systems Intern, Universidad de Las AméricasTechnical support and maintenance of university systems, documenting support procedures. Before that, one month as an assistant professor.
Quito, EC
Education
MSc Artificial Intelligence (applied)
Universidad de Las Américas · 2025 — 2026
Software Engineering
Universidad de Las Américas · 2020 — 2025
Computer Science
Universidad Latina de Costa Rica · 2023 — 2024
Certifications & awards
EF SET English 68/100 — C1 Advanced
Agile Foundations · Preliminary English Test
Communicating with Confidence · Time Management Mastery
Second place, Ingenials contest — ×2
Details
Based — Quito, Ecuador · remote
Languages — Spanish and English, bilingual
Open to — Freelance, full-time, collaboration
Email — [email protected]
Let's make something that resonates.
Freelance, a full-time role, or an idea that deserves to exist. I read and answer everything.