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.
151 articles from this blog
A developer's monthly update on TinyPilot, a tech project, covering record revenue, product development, and a video course launch.
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.
Best practices for developers to prepare and submit code for review, ensuring productive feedback and positive team dynamics.
A developer's monthly update on TinyPilot, an IT hardware project, detailing record $10k revenue, marketing experiments, and inventory management improvements.
An update on TinyPilot's third month, covering manufacturing challenges, sales revenue of $3,800, and progress on product development goals.
A developer shares his experience building a new homelab VM server for software development, including hardware choices and lessons learned.
An update on TinyPilot, a Raspberry Pi KVM project, covering sales, development challenges, and a critical hardware redesign for power delivery.
Developer shares first-month results of TinyPilot, a KVM-over-IP hardware project, with $8.7k revenue and lessons learned.
A guide to building an inexpensive, open-source KVM over IP device using a Raspberry Pi for under $100 to control computers remotely.
A developer's monthly update on his tech projects, including a KVM Pi device, the 'Is It Keto' website, and the Zestful API, with revenue stats.
A guide to turning a Raspberry Pi into a remote keyboard using an open-source web app called Key Mime Pi.
A developer's technical journey to self-host a private video sharing platform, evaluating ClipBucket and MediaGoblin with Docker and Ansible.
Tutorial on editing home videos and hosting them privately using MediaGoblin, ffmpeg, and Heroku with Google Cloud storage.
Analysis of Stripe's updated data collection disclosures and new opt-out feature for user tracking in their JavaScript library.
Analysis of Stripe.js library's hidden data collection, including user browsing activity and mouse movements on client websites.
A solo developer shares financial results and lessons from his second year building software businesses after leaving Google.
Developer shares business progress, including record revenue for two apps and details on building a new live comedy app using Vue/Nuxt.
A tutorial on using Vue and Nuxt for pre-rendering web pages to solve SEO and social sharing problems in single-page applications.
A developer shares technical and habit-based techniques to reduce distractions from social media, email, and apps like StackOverflow for better productivity.
A speaker's review of PyGotham 2019, covering talk quality, event organization, and highlights like a talk on web archiving tools.
