A founder’s journal for a mid‑aged technical creator exploring SaaS in the AI era — documenting the quiet, steady climb toward $10K/month.
I’m bringing Dealbert back, this time with AI at the center of the experience. There are already plenty of deal websites, but finding a really good deal still takes time. A big discount doesn’t always mean a good deal, s…
I just read Pieter Levels’ post about cancelling his SaaS subscriptions and building his own tools with AI. I think this is probably the direction SaaS is going. Why pay for so many monthly subscriptions when you can ju…
My Shopify app finally got approved after the second revision. It took more time than I expected, and honestly at one point I wasn’t even sure if I should keep going. But sunk cost is a powerful thing. I kept thinking I’…
I think InvenTrac got a little sidetracked. The original idea was pretty simple: a Chrome extension where sellers can quickly check inventory and sales across different shops without constantly jumping between dashboards…
Working on the Shopify integration for InvenTrac and I have to rant a little. Why is everything so confusing? There’s Shopify Admin, Partner Dashboard, Dev Dashboard, Apps, and then a bunch of different Shopify URLs and …
I’ve been thinking about where to take ArteraQ next. One thing I’ve decided is to keep the desktop version free and open source, with offline use as an important feature. Art collections can contain a lot of private info…
Lately I feel like I’m constantly choosing between coding and marketing. I work full time, so there are only so many hours left in the day, and of course I’d rather spend those hours building. That’s the fun part for me.…
I finally submitted InvenTrac to the Shopify App Store and… rejected. The reason was actually pretty simple. InvenTrac was built around a Chrome extension. You connect your store, install the extension, and that’s where …
I’ve been researching how inventory sync works across platforms like Shopify, Square, and Etsy. At first, it sounds simple. Someone buys a product on Shopify, so you reduce the stock on Square. Done, right? Not quite. Im…
AI has made building software ridiculously easy. I can have an idea, build it, fix it, and ship it faster than ever before. That’s great, but there’s a catch: everyone else can do the same thing now. The hard part is no …
I finally submitted InvenTrac to the Shopify App Store this week, but there’s one problem. Shopify’s requirements say a browser extension should be an optional part of an app, while InvenTrac is a Chrome extension. That’…
The last two weeks have been pretty busy. I took InvenTrac from version 0.1.7 to 0.1.13, with seven releases covering new features, fixes, and a few problems I didn’t notice until I started supporting multiple shops. I …
After months of nights and weekends, I'm excited to share this: the ArteraQ Desktop app is here. ArteraQ started as a cloud platform helping galleries, collection managers, and art advisors replace spreadsheet chaos for…
I originally built InvenTrac for Etsy sellers — mostly for my daughter — and for a long time that was its whole identity. The extension literally had “Etsy Inventory Manager” in the name. Then I added Shopify support las…
I’ve spent the last few weeks building something I didn’t originally plan for ArteraQ: a desktop version. The idea actually came from conversations with galleries. A few people basically told me, “I don’t want another s…
June was a big month for ArteraQ. After talking with many people in the art world, I decided to focus more on galleries, art advisors, and collection managers instead of individual collectors. This meant making quite a f…
InvenTrac started because of my daughter. She runs a small Etsy store and was having trouble keeping track of inventory, low-stock items, sold-out products, and open orders. I watched her jump between different Etsy page…
ArteraQ is finally open for sign-ups! Over the past few months, I’ve talked with gallery owners, art advisors, collectors, artists, and collection managers. These conversations helped me rethink what I should build and w…
After many LinkedIn messages, Reddit discussions, and conversations with people in the art world, I’ve started to rethink the market for art collection software. Many collectors still use spreadsheets, folders, or even …
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been talking with gallery owners, art advisors, artists, collectors, and collection managers while building ArteraQ. A few things have stood out. A lot of smaller galleries still rely on sp…
This is a simple blog platform I built as a centralized content engine for my other sites. Everything lives in one place, and the rest of my projects can pull from it whenever they need to. It keeps things clean, consist…