Build notes
Ideas, trade-offs and the work behind Brink.
A candid record of building an independent podcast app: what worked, what was slow, and what I learned fixing it.
Making Brink feel lighter while the app grew three times larger
How I pulled apart giant SwiftUI views, stopped invisible redraws, moved expensive rendering off the main thread, and cut the launch floor from three seconds to 0.8.
Brink