Benny is live on the App Store
After years of building products for clients and leaving personal ideas unfinished, I spent two months building and releasing Benny.
I don't just ship projects.
I run small bets, learn fast, and build products people keep coming back to.
Less mockups, more shipped work — not screenshots.
Project · Creator and iOS Engineer MaGus Standardized iOS project setup with a Swift CLI that generates full Xcode project structures in minutes. Project · Creator and iOS Engineer Updeto Shipped a lightweight update-check utility so apps can enforce minimum supported versions and keep users on stable releases.
I'm Manuel Sanchez · iOS Engineer · Toronto, Canada
Welcome to my site. I have worked across iOS, web, and OSS projects, with a focus on practical solutions, clean architecture, and tooling that improves developer workflow.
Most of my recent work is around Apple platforms, but I still enjoy building across the stack whenever the problem needs it.
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View allHow I decide what to build (and what to kill)
My practical framework for choosing side projects, validating them quickly, and shutting down ideas before they eat months of work.
Simplified imports with @_exported attribute
Swift has lesser-known features that can simplify large codebases. One example is @_exported for re-exporting module imports.
Let's Work Together
Open to freelance work, collaborations, and iOS consulting opportunities.