Desk Archive
Opinion
Essays on building tech companies young, open standards, and product craft.
4 published articles
Opinion • 5 min read
Why Traditional Open Source Licensing Is Breaking Under Modern Cloud Hosting
From Redis to Terraform, independent developers are fleeing the MIT license. Reflections on keeping code free while preventing trillion-dollar cloud arbitrage.
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Building Software at Fifteen: What Nobody Tells You About Young Founders
Most startup advice is written by thirty-year-olds who do not have high school finals on Friday. Here is what actually happens when you run a studio as a teenager.
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How I Started Ryla Labs at 13 (and Scaled to 50,000 Users)
No seed capital, no co-founders, and no office. The unglamorous reality of bootstrapping an indie software studio during middle school evenings.
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The Physical Tools and Hardware I Used to Write and Ship Built Young
From mechanical keyboards and Field Notes notebooks to Scrivener on an M-series Mac. A breakdown of the hardware setup behind my debut book at fifteen.
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