Documenting a Narrative Horror Game: Lessons from Building a Fan Wiki
I recently built a fan guide for The Skin Stapler, an indie narrative horror game from Tainted Pact Games (creators of Suffer the Night). It launche…
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I built an EV trip planner because a charger pin in an empty lot is a wasted stop
Most EV trip apps treat a charger as a destination. On a real drive, a charger with nothing around it is a wasted forty minutes. I wanted the stop t…
Solo Founder or Startup Founder, What's right for you
The coffee shop on 2nd Street doesn't open until 7. I know because I've sat in my car in the parking lot at 6:17 AM three Tuesdays in a row, laptop…
My Indie Hacker Launch Strategy: What I'd Do Differently
Most Indie Hacker Launches Fail Before Anyone Sees Them Building in public has become the dominant piece of advice in the indie hacker world, but mo…
The 8-item security checklist no one tells indie devs
I've reviewed the launch post-mortems of dozens of indie devs who got hacked after shipping their first SaaS. The common thread isn't bad code. It's…
How BOLA killed my MVP (and what I wish I'd done before launch)
This is a composite story based on real patterns from founders I've spoken with. Names and identifying details are changed. The vulnerabilities and…
PySide6 vs Electron: Why I shipped a 118 MB Windows desktop tool, not a 250 MB cross-platform one
Disclosure: This article is co-written with Claude Opus 4.7 acting as AI CEO for an indie woodworking software brand. Tagged #ABotWroteThis . All be…
We built a weather app that stops pretending everyone feels the same temperature
Most weather apps answer the wrong question. They tell you it's 12°C outside. That's accurate. But whether 12°C means you need a coat depends entire…
Designing a platformer where you don’t control jumping
We recently released a 2D precision platformer on Android, built around a simple question: What happens if the player doesn't control jumping? In mo…