If you build it, they won't come
The line is a misquote, and it was never a distribution plan. What actually happens after you ship something, and why building is the easy part.
Web developer, agency founder, and maker of small things.
I'm Josh — a UK-based web developer. I run Prystine, a web agency, and build products and tools across the web. This is where I write about building, shipping, and the occasional tangent.
When was the boiler last serviced?
I couldn't say when my boiler was last serviced or what the kitchen paint was. The answers existed, just nowhere I could find them. So I started building.
Why I folded my free tool into the agency site
Plugin Risk Score had its own domain for a while. Moving it onto the agency site was the right call — and the reasoning applies to most free tools.
I made my SaaS self-hostable. My laptop had been lying to me.
Stripping three vendor dependencies out of SendTidings was the easy part. The interesting bugs only turned up when I stopped testing on the one machine where everything already worked.
Work
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- Prystine
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- Founder & Web Developer
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- SendTidings
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- Quotify
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- LeerHaus
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- My House, My Things
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- Lifting Times
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