Hello, world: why I'm building in public

For more than 14 years I’ve built enterprise software and led engineering teams. Java, Spring Boot, microservices, React. Systems that run in production and serve real users.

All of that software belongs to someone else. Now I want to find out whether I can build products of my own that people pay for.

The plan

I’m keeping it simple:

• Ship small. Each product starts as an experiment I can build in a couple of weeks.
• Keep costs near zero. Free hosting and free tiers until something earns money.
• Share the numbers. The revenue chart on my home page starts at $0. Every dollar gets reported as it arrives.
• Write postmortems. When a product fails, I’ll write up what broke and what I learned.

What this site is

This site is built like a production dashboard, because that’s how I think about systems. Projects are services with a status. This blog is the commit log. If you want to follow along, the best place is X.

The first product is on its way. Let’s see what ships.