A founder’s journal for a mid‑aged technical creator exploring SaaS in the AI era — documenting the quiet, steady climb toward $10K/month.
Working on the Shopify integration for InvenTrac and I have to rant a little. Why is everything so confusing? There’s Shopify Admin. Then Partner Dashboard. Then Dev Dashboard. Then Apps. Then a bunch of different Shop…
I’ve been thinking a lot about where I want to take ArteraQ next. One thing I’ve decided is that I want to keep the desktop version open source and free. Artists, collectors, galleries, art advisors, and collection mana…
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…
Here’s a shorter version that feels more like a founder writing about what happened, rather than a polished company blog. Shopify Rejected My App, and They Had a Point I finally submitted InvenTrac to the Shopify App S…
I’ve been spending some time researching how inventory sync actually works across platforms like Shopify, Square, Etsy, and others. At first it sounds pretty simple. Something sells on Shopify, reduce the quantity on Sq…
AI made building software ridiculously easy. That’s great. I can have an idea, build it, fix it, and ship it faster than I ever could before. But there’s a catch: everyone else can too. Now the hard part isn’t buildin…
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. InvenTrac is a Chrome extension. That’s k…
The last two weeks have been pretty busy. I took InvenTrac from 0.1.7 to 0.1.13 — seven releases with a mix of new features, fixes, and a few things I didn’t realize were broken until I started supporting multiple shops.…
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 pretty big month for ArteraQ. After a lot of conversations and customer discovery, I made a difficult decision to move away from building primarily for individual collectors and focus more on galleries, art a…
InvenTrac actually started because of my daughter. She runs a small Etsy store, and like many small sellers, she was having trouble keeping everything in check — inventory, what was running low, what sold out, and order…
ArteraQ is finally open for sign-ups. It’s been a bit of a journey getting here. Over the past few months, I’ve talked to gallery owners, art advisors, collectors, artists, and collection managers. What I learned from t…
After a lot of cold outreach on LinkedIn, Reddit discussions, and conversations with people in the art world, I’ve started to rethink the market for art collection software. Collectors come in many flavors A lot of col…
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 s…
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…