I'm Silas Lee, an indie developer building small apps in public. After building too many products in private, I'm now learning distribution, user validation, and more honest product practice.
Current Products
This is the short list. The newest bet gets the front slot, and the older ones stay only if the problem is still worth testing in public.
A local-first workspace for manually saving prospect signals, organizing follow-ups, and keeping outreach prep lightweight.
Designed around manual signal capture instead of scraping, automation, or bulk outreach.
Now live in the Chrome Web Store as the newest project in the lab.
Product preview
A lightweight beauty and skincare expiry tracker designed around a narrow, everyday use case.
Designed for one narrow daily job instead of a broad beauty workflow.
Best candidate for clearer consumer validation right now.
Live preview
A subscription decision app that helps you decide whether something is still worth renewing.
A smaller, opinionated utility around subscription renewal decisions.
Still alive because the core problem is easy to explain and test.
Live preview
Utility Sites
Not every public project needs to become an app. Some are better when they solve one narrow problem immediately and get out of the way.
A fast World Cup 2026 local-time converter with downloadable calendar files for people who just want the schedule in their own timezone.
A search-friendly utility site built around one highly specific problem people can solve in seconds.
Different from the app work: less product depth, more direct utility and distribution learning.
Live utility snapshot
Project Archive
I keep the archive visible, but shorter. It should document pattern recognition, not take over the homepage.
Archived
Incident diagnosis for structurally broken CSV files.
Lesson: Sharper product boundaries tend to outperform broad data-platform ambition.
Archived
Local-first CSV auditing with reviewable exports and audit trails.
Lesson: Trustworthy workflows still need a much stronger pain signal to survive.
Archived
A county foreclosure notice PDF-to-CSV desktop prototype.
Lesson: Template-heavy products slide into service work unless the scope stays brutally narrow.
Archived
A tiny web tool that turned one tweet into three reply options.
Lesson: If general AI already covers the baseline, convenience alone is not enough of a wedge.
Archived
An early offline-first CSV and Parquet audit direction.
Lesson: Dead branches can still be useful roots for better products later.
Writing / Notes
I'm not building a full blog system here. Just enough surface area for public thinking, product notes, and honest postmortems.
About
I build small software products, mostly around personal tools, data workflows, and everyday decision-making. Right now I'm more interested in learning distribution than in quietly stacking more private projects.
Current focus
Public validation, honest product practice, and smaller bets with clearer signal.
What this site is
The single public entry point for what is alive, what is archived, and what I learned.
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