The Bearacle Blog
Launches, build logs, and the occasional argument about tab widths — written by the people actually shipping the apps. No guest posts, no SEO filler.
clearesim.com
The web app is open. Pick a destination, pay by card, and install the eSIM before you fly. The iOS and Android apps are next.
The carrier side of Clear Roam is no longer a to-do item. The build continues on top of a real global eSIM platform.
197 countries in the catalogue, a checkout that works, and a launch date we are still not giving you.
Every regulated price the moment the decision lands — plus the cost stack behind it, which nobody else publishes.
Android first, iOS second, and one review rejection that turned out to be a fair question.
Small apps, small scope, no accounts. The kind we build between the big ones — and where most of our good ideas actually start.
One reads a government decision every Monday night. The other kills your roaming bill. Both are in build.
Three official Goethe-Institut practice exams, the original audio, and an AI examiner for the two parts where everyone loses points.
The check-in app and the HR dashboard both shipped. Here's what's in the box, and what is still in the queue.
Hand-written HTML, a CDN stylesheet and a bear. No build step, no cookie banner, nothing to consent to.
Forty-seven questions once a year is not a measurement, it's an autopsy. Vibeshift asks four things and asks them often.
We shipped a vault. The testers used it as a calendar. That changed the app.
The list had thirty-one ideas on it. Here are the two that survived, the three filters that killed the rest, and what we threw out on purpose.
No growth hackers, no synergy deck. Developers, designers, and one person who reads tax legislation recreationally.
For two years it was a group chat with a shared folder of half-finished apps. As of today it has a name, an address in Wyoming, and a bear in a suit.
Nothing filed under that yet.
Five of them are live or in build. They are all on one page.
