& FOUNDER NOTES
Product & Founder News
Launches, releases, sunsets, and the occasional midnight lesson — straight from building across the ANDRS Tech Foundry product set. For deeper analysis and strategy, see the Journal; for practical AI guidance, see Field Briefs.
Money Magician is launching on Product Hunt
After six months in beta, Money Magician is officially live — with a launch-day offer for Product Hunt visitors.
Retro Reader: a feed reader that runs locally
A retro, TV-themed RSS/Atom reader with no account, no tracking, and no algorithm — built because every source wanted to be read on its own terms.
Open Source Summer
A living collection of the best open source tools across every layer of the builder stack — kicking off across dev tools, design, ops, growth, and AI.
Cloudflare Uptime Monitor: self-hosted uptime monitoring
Why pay a third party for uptime monitoring when Workers, D1, and Pages already give you everything you need?
Ask Seve — AI travel planner turns one
A year of building an AI agent solo, no designers or developers by my side — just me, AI, and a backpack full of domain knowledge.
How Drop Kit is solving social media's media problem
Built in a single weekend: drop in a link, some text, or a photo, and get a proper, on-brand social image back — no AI rewriting, no subscription.
Money Magician was born out of pure frustration
Midnight data entry the night before a meeting was the last straw. Why financial tools built for accountants don't work for creators and freelancers.
Map Your City has reached End-of-Life
After ten years, the difficult decision to discontinue Map Your City's platform, apps, and APIs — and gratitude for the community that built it with us.
Envisioning AI's impact: using the Futures Wheel
A strategic foresight tool for mapping how AI will ripple through your product, step by step.
Why women are much needed in tech, and how to close the gap
The data on funding, founders, and representation — and what actually helps.
Do you have a Data Analytics Strategy?
A framework built from running an actual SaaS platform, not a generic template.
Powerful ideas need world changing views
What crisis teaches us about creativity, and why simply challenging the status quo isn't enough.
Build or buy your payment solution?
A simple framework for one of the most consequential decisions in your product.
Why team continuity is important, and how to ensure it
Four practical habits that keep operations from suffering when your team changes.