A solo developer's journey to build products that make a real impact.
I'm a developer with almost 25 years of experience building complex software and leading engineering teams. Now, I'm channeling that expertise into something new — the world of indie development and solopreneurship.
My focus? Building high-quality software in the most efficient way possible, powered by AI. From development to marketing, I'm exploring how automation can transform every layer of a business.
My goal is simple but ambitious: create a company that can build and maintain multiple complex products with just a handful of people. Companies like Cursor have shown that world-class software no longer requires massive teams. I want to push that even further — running multiple ambitious projects with a lean crew of just a few.
One developer. Five ambitious products.
Powered by AI from code to customer.
A growing library of free, 100% client-side browser tools — each a fast, private, SEO-optimized doorway into the product family
People type millions of "free [x] tool" queries into Google every day — word counters, JSON formatters, QR generators, percentage calculators. Most existing tools are ad-choked, slow, privacy-hostile, or English-only. CanDoYa wins that organic traffic by being the opposite: genuinely useful and instant, with the working tool above the fold and running entirely in your browser; private by default, so nothing you type ever leaves your machine (including on-device AI); and native in 40 languages, not machine-translated filler. Every free tool is topically matched to a paid app — PromptNest, MeetingMemo, GrammarBuddy, Voicr, Erla — turning a wide net of high-intent searches into a compounding, low-cost acquisition channel for the whole family.
CanDoYa is live at candoya.com with tools spanning Text & writing, Developer, Math, Color, Date & time, Converters, Finance, SEO, Crypto, Health, Productivity, Games, PDF, Generators, and Social. Built on Astro with Vue islands and Tailwind, prerendered to near-zero-JS static pages and hosted on Cloudflare. Tools and locales roll out in quality-checked clusters — a page ships only when the tool is live and reviewed localized content exists, never auto-translated filler.
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Visit CanDoYaRecord, transcribe, and summarize your meetings entirely on your Mac — your conversations never leave your device
Every meeting tool today — Granola, Otter, Fathom — uploads your audio to its cloud, no choice given. MeetingMemo is the privacy-first alternative: it records, transcribes, and summarizes meetings entirely on your Mac. Raw audio never leaves the device — transcription runs on-device via WhisperKit or Apple's SpeechTranscriber, and AI summaries run on-device too, so free polishing and summaries work out of the box with no API key. Prefer a hosted model? Bring your own cloud LLM key — it goes straight to your provider, never to a MeetingMemo server. Built for lawyers, doctors, therapists, founders, and anyone under NDA who can't send conversations to someone else's cloud.
MeetingMemo is live on the Mac App Store. On-device recording, transcription, speaker labeling, AI summaries and action items, meeting templates, calendar integration, search, audio playback, and export are all complete. Free to download with a 30-day free trial, then $29.99/year. Requires macOS 26 Tahoe on Apple Silicon.
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Visit MeetingMemoVoice to Text, Instantly — a macOS menu bar app that turns your speech into polished text
Hold FN, speak, release — your polished text is copied and ready to paste. Voicr lives in your macOS menu bar and turns your voice into clear, professional text in under 3 seconds. AI-powered polishing cleans up filler words, fixes grammar, and structures your thoughts. Smart rules adapt the writing style per app — casual for Slack, formal for email, technical for code comments. Supports 27 languages with instant voice translation, text correction via ⌥Space, dictation mode, recording history, and notes. No windows to open. Just talk, paste, done.
Voicr is live and available for macOS 14+. All core features are complete: FN-hold recording, AI polishing with custom rules per app, pure dictation mode, text correction picker (⌥Space), 27-language support with instant translation, recording history, notes, menu bar quick-copy, and auto-updates. Subscription plans: GO ($3/mo, 20K words) and PRO ($10/mo, 100K words) with free trial available.
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Visit VoicrAI-powered super app to learn languages in the most natural way
Most language apps teach you to pass tests, not to actually speak. Erla is built on a different philosophy: learn the way humans naturally acquire language. Through listening. Through reading. Through real conversations. Erla is a suite of 22 apps — one for each language — designed to immerse you from day one. AI tutors adapt to your level and learning style. Content feels natural, not like a textbook. The goal isn't to gamify memorization. It's to make you fluent — the way children learn, the way immersion works, but accessible from your phone.
Erla is live on both the App Store and Google Play — all 22 language apps published and available. Two core modules are currently free: Reading and Listening. More features, including AI chat tutors and expanded content, are on the roadmap.
Release Date: December 15, 2025
Visit ErlaDesktop app for organizing, storing, and accessing AI prompts
Anyone who uses AI assistants regularly faces the same frustration: perfect prompts get lost in chat histories, scattered across notes, docs, and random text files. PromptNest gives your prompts a permanent, organized home. Store all your prompts in one place, organize them into projects and groups, find any prompt instantly with search, and copy with one click. The killer feature: smart variables like {{client_name}} or {{topic}} that prompt you to fill in the blanks before copying — no more forgotten placeholders, no more irrelevant results.
PromptNest is live on both the Mac App Store and Microsoft Store. Available as a one-time purchase for $9.99 — no subscription, no hidden fees. All core features are complete: project-based organization, smart variables, prompt notes, instant search, and file-based storage that you fully own and control.
Status: Available Now
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