Michael Lynch – Developer, Indie Founder and Technical Writer Michael Lynch shares honest and detailed stories from his journey as a software engineer and indie founder. His blog covers topics like building sustainable businesses, code reviews, software craftsmanship, and lessons learned from running and selling his own startup, TinyPilot. Each post reflects a mix of engineering precision and real-world experience, written with clarity and humor. Readers can find tutorials, retrospectives, and essays that go beyond code to explore motivation, productivity, and the human side of software development. This blog is a must-read for developers, indie hackers, and anyone who enjoys thoughtful writing about technology and entrepreneurship.
146 articles from this blog
An update on TinyPilot's business, including the launch of the Voyager 2, a new logo, and a review of December's revenue and profit.
A developer's monthly update on TinyPilot, a tech hardware product, covering sales growth, product launches, and infrastructure optimizations.
A monthly update on TinyPilot, covering product development, business metrics, and lessons learned from a failed cloud service launch.
TinyPilot's 15th-month update: record revenue, competitor's $800k Kickstarter, and product development progress for the Raspberry Pi KVM device.
A monthly update on TinyPilot, a tech hardware business, covering sales, product development, and financial challenges.
A monthly update on TinyPilot, covering EU distribution setup, team delegation, and product development progress like a PoE adapter.
A monthly update on TinyPilot, a tech hardware project, covering revenue, product development challenges, and business bottlenecks.
TinyPilot's 11th-month update: Revenue hits $39k, profit surges, and operations move to a new office. Focus on improving margins.
TinyPilot's 10th-month update covers revenue growth, office setup, and challenges with hardware prototyping due to the chip shortage.
How to use SQLite with Litestream for serverless data replication, eliminating database servers and reducing costs to $0.03/month.
TinyPilot's monthly update covers revenue decline, hiring efforts, affiliate program challenges, and optimizing order fulfillment processes.
A developer shares his guidelines for freelance software developers, covering communication, email etiquette, and project management for effective collaboration.
TinyPilot's monthly update: first revenue drop in 6 months, parts shortage, and progress on new features and an affiliate program.
TinyPilot's 7th-month update shows astonishing revenue growth from $15k to $42k, driven by a YouTube review, and discusses hiring challenges.
A solo developer's third-year retrospective on building a software business, focusing on the success of his open-source KVM device, TinyPilot.
A developer's monthly update on TinyPilot, a tech project, covering record revenue, product development, and a video course launch.
Best practices for developers to prepare and submit code for review, ensuring productive feedback and positive team dynamics.
An update on TinyPilot's 5th month, covering a 20% revenue increase, the launch of a new pre-assembled Voyager model, and a new paid course.
A developer's monthly update on TinyPilot, an IT hardware project, detailing record $10k revenue, marketing experiments, and inventory management improvements.
A developer shares his experience building a new homelab VM server for software development, including hardware choices and lessons learned.
