Better Play Store screenshots: text + feature, one per image

Replaced the plain app screenshots in the Play Store with feature-framed graphics — one feature, one headline, one image. Claude helped tighten the copy; I did the layout in Affinity Designer.

May 13, 2026 · 3 min · Karl-Ernst Kiel

Shooting a demo video the old-fashioned way

I needed a demo video for the Play Store listing. Generative video tools couldn’t produce anything usable, so I shot it with two phones and a stand. Suno made the soundtrack. Total takeaway: AI video for specific app footage is still hard, filming a phone screen is harder than it looks, and Suno is fun.

May 10, 2026 · 4 min · Karl-Ernst Kiel

Hunting for 12 Android testers

Closed testing on Google Play needs 12 testers running the app for 14 days before I can promote to production. Most musicians I know are on iOS. Today was about lowering the friction to join: a public Google Group, license-testing access for the in-app purchase, forum posts on Musora, and a prominent beta block on sessionclick.com.

April 25, 2026 · 4 min · Karl-Ernst Kiel