& 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.