Projects
Throughout the years I've worked on many different projects. Here are the ones I worked on for more than a month (and that I haven't forgotten about).
| Project | Started | Description | What Happened | Interesting Bits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OrgManager | Jan 2017 | Open source invite system for GitHub Organizations | The repo is still up, but it's not maintained anymore. The hosted version was sunsetted on 2019. | Started as an example app to experiment with Laravel when I was learning it, ended up getting used by multiple big organizations (like FOSSASIA) during Google CodeIn. |
| DependenCI | Mar 2017 | A service that PR'd composer dependency updates | I never managed to figure out how to update the composer.lock without actually running composer on my server, so I moved on to other projects. | DependenCI was pre-Dependabot (which got adquired by GitHub) and was the first service of its kind to support PHP packages. |
| UnMarkDocs | Jul 2017 | Dynamic documentation hosting with custom markdown, integrated with GitHub | Maintained it for around a year, but never managed to make it profitable. Ended up selling it for 350€ to Sven Hofmann. | UnMarkDocs was my first attempt to build something big and, while I didn't manage to make it sustainable, it taught me a lot about building big apps and even more about marketing and business. |
| CoderYouth | Jan 2018 | A code community for teenagers, by teenagers | The CoderYouth chat is still active and periodically gets new members, but the rest of CoderYouth's services are on pause at the moment. | I started CoderYouth because none of my IRL friends was interested in programming, and it helped me build a small group of really cool people of my age with whom I've since met in real life. |
| Snaptier | Feb 2018 | A platform to automate repetitive development tasks | We decided to stop working on it while building the MVP. | A few months after stopping development, I went back and managed to finally get everything working, but everyone had moved on from the project at that point. |
| Borrow My Topic | Mar 2018 | Open-source platform where creators and presenters can exchange topics for talks | The repository was active during the first few months and we got some work done, but we all slowly stopped working on it eventually. | |
| Maker Army | Nov 2018 | A modern platform built to provide makers with financial stability | I really liked the idea, but the team was poorly managed and I ended up resigning from the project, which died soon after. | |
| Blogcast | Jan 2019 | A platform to automate article narration using state of art text-to-speech-technology | I built the initial version in a week, and continued iterating on the idea for half a year. On March 2020, I decided to sell it so I could focus exclusively on building Sitesauce. | There was a big wave of article-to-text apps in the following months to the launch of Blogcast, including a YC-backed startup. |
| Sitesauce | September 2019 | A platform that generates static sites from dynamically-generated websites | After developing Sitesauce for 8 months, I finally launched it on May 2020, and I've been iterating on it since then. | The launch went way better than I expected, reaching $600 MRR in a week and $1k MRR two days after. |