The community space
Tools, not a
mailing list
I build software for my own needs. Whatever has no reason to be sold becomes free here, documentation included. In return, the community steers what ships next.
What you get
Three things, nothing padded
Software that works
VIGIE and Cockpit first, then the ones that follow. Installable on your machine, with no account to create and no server to entrust your data to. Every release comes with its documentation.
How it's built
The technical choices, the mistakes, what got thrown away. Building five products alone demands precise methods: they're shared as they are, without staging.
A word on what's next
The next tool is chosen from what members ask for. One usage report outweighs a market study when you build for people you can actually read.
How it runs
Contribution, actually applied
In the book this project takes its name from, the worth of an act is measured by the chain of benefits it sets off, and hoarding grants no power. Transposed here, it makes for a simple arrangement:
- Receive without owing The tools are free and complete. No crippled version nudging you to pay, no gated feature.
- Give back if it helps you A bug reported, a use case, a fix in the documentation. That's the contribution — not a subscription.
- Decide what's next, together What members actually use determines what gets built. Tools nobody opens get dropped.
One letter a month at most, and only when there's something to announce.
Your address is used to write to you, nothing else. No sharing, no trackers, no profiling.
One-click unsubscribe in every message. Addresses that leave are deleted.
Zero. The free tools are funded by the software that is sold, not by reselling an audience.
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