Google banned my account yesterday. So I built a desktop app they can't touch.

Yesterday at 2 AM, I woke up to an email every developer fears:

"Your Google Account has been disabled due to multiple account associations."

It wasn't a warning. It was a digital death sentence. My Gmail, Drive, Photos, and 9 years of dev history — all gone instantly. The reason? A test account I used for a Chrome Extension side project got flagged, and their AI decided to nuke my personal account too.

No appeal worked. No human support. Just silence.

The Lesson: Don't Build on Rented Land

I realized my mistake wasn't just "violating a policy" (which I didn't think I did). My mistake was structural. I had built my entire identity and business on Google's platform (Chrome Store, Gmail).

So, instead of quitting, I spent the last 24 hours pivoting hard.

The 72-Hour Rebuild Plan

Here is how I am restructuring my indie stack to be "Anti-Fragile":

Identity Sovereignty: I bought my own domain (jaywalk.cc) via Cloudflare and set up Zoho Mail. [email protected] is now MY email, forever.
Platform Pivot: I migrated my banned "LinkedIn Lead Miner" extension to an Electron Desktop App.
No Chrome Store review process.
No platform risk.
100% Local-first data (Privacy as a feature).
Payment Independence: Using Lemon Squeezy as the Merchant of Record, decoupled from any app store.
The Result: Jaywalk Miner

I'm relaunching the tool as Jaywalk Miner — a desktop application that helps sales teams extract leads from LinkedIn comments. It does exactly what the plugin did, but safer, faster, and without Big Tech looking over my shoulder.

Takeaway for Indie Hackers: If you are building SaaS, own your platform. Use Big Tech for distribution, not as your foundation. One algorithm change shouldn't be able to kill your business.

I wrote a full thread about this incident on X: [https://x.com/muyun_dev/status/2011434163145199847?s=46]

Would love to hear if anyone else recovered from a total Google ban?