diff --git a/deploy.sh b/deploy.sh
index c780395..f89cdca 100755
--- a/deploy.sh
+++ b/deploy.sh
@@ -21,23 +21,20 @@ KS_ALIAS="itsgoin"
 VERSION=$(grep '"version"' crates/tauri-app/tauri.conf.json | head -1 | sed 's/.*"\([0-9.]*\)".*/\1/')
 echo "=== Deploying v${VERSION} ==="
 
-# Build CLI
-echo "=== Building CLI ==="
-cargo build -p itsgoin-cli --release &
-CLI_PID=$!
+# Builds run SERIALLY — parallel cargo invocations write to the same
+# target/ directory, which causes intermittent failures (linuxdeploy
+# blowing up mid-AppImage was the v0.7.0 release symptom). The extra
+# wall time vs. the parallel version is small because cargo's
+# incremental cache deduplicates the shared core crate compilation.
 
-# Build APK
-echo "=== Building APK ==="
-cargo tauri android build --apk &
-APK_PID=$!
-
-# Build AppImage (includes GStreamer patch)
-echo "=== Building AppImage ==="
+echo "=== Building AppImage (includes GStreamer patch) ==="
 ./build-appimage.sh
-wait $CLI_PID
-echo "=== CLI build complete ==="
-wait $APK_PID
-echo "=== APK build complete ==="
+
+echo "=== Building APK ==="
+cargo tauri android build --apk
+
+echo "=== Building CLI ==="
+cargo build -p itsgoin-cli --release
 
 # Sign APK
 echo "=== Signing APK ==="