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How to self host your own S3 in 2025

Posted on May 27, 2025 by James O'Claire

Well, multiple disks hovering close to 99%, it’s definitely time to increase storage for OpenAttribution and AppGoblin. I needed cheap S3 hosting, and I had a pretty strong urge to do it myself. Parts This should be up to you, but in the end I ended up grabbing an 8-bay Just-a-Bunch-Of-Disks (JBOD) which is a…

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2025 How to Sniff Android HTTPS Traffic with Waydroid & mitm-proxy

Posted on April 14, 2025April 14, 2025 by James O'Claire

Looking to add traffic analysis to my free mobile app intelligence platform AppGoblin, I needed to get an emulator up and running with a way to track the HTTPs traffic leaving the app. I’ve done this a couple years now, writing down my notes in github.com/ddxv/mobile-network-traffic and it never seems to get any easier 🥲,…

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Easiest way to get Tanstack Table v8 working with Svelte 5!

Posted on April 9, 2025 by James O'Claire

Easy way to get tanstack v8 working with svelte 5 and Skeleton

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Nearly 50% of Android Apps use Mobile Trackers

Posted on March 11, 2025March 11, 2025 by James O'Claire

There are 5 large mobile app trackers, also called MMPs. Those are AppsFlyer, Adjust (owned by AppLovin), Branch and Yandex AppMetrica. These mobile attribution companies track users data across many apps. For Android nearly 50% of all apps contain a mobile app tracker and for iOS a bit less at 1 in 4 apps. This…

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Mobile SDK Showdown: Unveiling 2025’s Most Popular Frameworks Powering 30K Apps

Posted on February 20, 2025February 20, 2025 by James O'Claire

I finally updated AppGoblin to show the most popular mobile SDKs that are used for Android and iOS apps. To recap, I’ve now decompiled ~24k Android and 6k iOS apps. I check for various plugins/frameworks/SDKs and have made a list of which are used in the most apps. You can also click into each one…

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iOS SDK .Frameworks: Known Unknowns

Posted on February 3, 2025February 20, 2025 by James O'Claire

I keep coming across iOS frameworks that I can’t connect back to a company. Some examples from today are these SDKs with RTLMX in the name like They all sound quite interesting, but unfortunately no Google / Bing results Keeping track of the Known Unknowns? I think it would be good to surface these somehow…

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Quick Peek at DeepSeek’s Android Chinese SDKs

Posted on February 2, 2025 by James O'Claire

I took the afternoon to peek inside DeepSeek to see the various Chinese SDKs and tag some new Chinese companies AppGoblin wasn’t previously tracking (*cough* tencent, not sure how I wasn’t tracking that one yet). SDKs So I found three companies which I previously wasn’t quite tracking and added those in. So let’s go over…

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Google Search Console Has Deindexed Nearly my Entire Site

Posted on January 6, 2025 by James O'Claire

Been troubleshooting this decline for months. About 6 months ago, before I started paying attention, AppGoblin had no meta headers, no canonical pages, and no SEO optimization of any kind. Many pages routinely took 10 seconds to load. At some point I took an interest in growing the site, it honestly only gets a few…

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ClickHouse in Less than 2GB RAM in Docker

Posted on December 20, 2024 by James O'Claire

I’ve had great success with ClickHouse on a 4GB RAM server (shared with other things, full load) but not so on my small server with only 2GB RAM and 2GB swap. I’m having some trouble lately with running ClickHouse, along with 5 or so other services like Kafka, Zookeeper, two python backends and a Node/Svelte…

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Open Source & Paid Alternatives to Firebase Dynamic Links

Posted on December 10, 2024February 5, 2025 by James O'Claire

Dynamic deep links hosted by Google Firebase are on their way out, so it’s time to look for the alternatives. I’ll cover the few open source projects I’ve seen as well as the top paid options. Open Source & Free Really, all this work just to provide a link to your app? Yeah, it’s really…

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