Andyy Hope
Lead iOS Engineer and Token Goblin
Andyy is a Melbourne-based developer and designer who has spent the past 16 years building apps across everything from tiny startups in Melbourne to Meta in New York. He’s passionate about creating polished consumer experiences that blend thoughtful design with strong engineering, with a particular focus on mobile products and emerging AI workflows. Outside of tech, Andy spends as much time snowboarding as possible and is currently building products inspired by mountains, travel, and community.
Tokenmaxxing all the way to the AppStore
I built Yewki — a full-stack snowboarding and ski tracking app for iPhone and Apple Watch — in 6 weeks by maxxing Claude's tokens. The problem wasn't the model. It was me.
Tokenmaxxing is treating Claude's context window as the most valuable resource in your workflow. I'll walk through the evolution: from copy-pasting code into chat windows, to a structured CLAUDE.md encoding architecture as machine-readable context, to a multi-repo agent setup where a dedicated iOS agent and backend agent each carry deep, domain-specific knowledge.
That separation matters. The context that makes Claude useful for Swift actor isolation and SwiftUI state is completely different from what it needs for Supabase RLS policies and Postgres migrations. Conflating them makes both worse.
You'll leave with a practical framework for building Claude into your workflow from day one — not as an autocomplete, but as a context-aware partner that gets better the more you invest in it.