Things I make and run.

• Deployment advisor

  StackPlan

  Plan where to deploy an application, compare providers, and generate a stack recommendation.

• Hosting advisor

  HostingPicker

  Choose a hosting provider using hand-checked prices and direct tradeoffs.

• Payment guide

  Payment Processor

  Compare payment providers, fee models, responsibilities, and migration costs.

• Website backend

  Sitebase

  Add waiting lists, forms, newsletters, and other useful features to a website.

• Email collection

  Waiting Lists

  Create self-hosted waiting lists with double opt-in and an agent-friendly API.

• Subscription audit

  Vibecode It Yourself

  Find paid subscriptions you could replace with focused software of your own.

• Migration guides

  Migrating to

  Follow practical migration playbooks with rollback plans and verification checks.

• Recovery playbooks

  Disaster Lab

  Prepare for software failures and recover using practical incident playbooks.

• Calculator library

  Calculum

  Use practical calculators for money, home, travel, work, and everyday decisions.

• Open source macOS app

  CLI Tools

  One catalog for every command-line tool on your Mac, with a JSON CLI for coding agents.

• Open source CLI

  Things CLI

  Manage Things 3 projects and tasks from the terminal or a coding agent.

• Open source skills

  fstack

  A small collection of agent skills for planning, building, reviewing, and shipping software.

• CLI

  Local Hoster

  A zero-runtime-dependency Node.js CLI that gives every local project one stable URL such as https://dashboard.localhost.

• CLI

  Port Pilot

  Control every local service from a native macOS menu bar companion, live terminal dashboard, or agent-friendly CLI — with shared health context and safe process actions.

• Web App

  Waiting Lists

  A self-hosted waiting-list web app with an included command-line client.

• Desktop App

  Livestream Recorder

  A native macOS app for recording live YouTube streams from now or from the available beginning, following catch-up progress, and finalizing reliable local MP4 files.

• Web App

  Events Logger

  A self-hosted event tracking dashboard.

• MCP + CLI

  Cloudflare Domains Toolkit

  A guarded Cloudflare Registrar MCP server and a companion DNS CLI.

• CLI + Skill

  Plausible Automation Toolkit

  A macOS CLI and Codex skill for self-hosted Plausible Community Edition.

• Library

  tte.js

  Dependency-free terminal-style text effects for the browser.

All repositories are under github.com/flaviocopes. The software catalog has the story behind each package.

• Cohort

  Bootcamp

  Learn how to build real applications with AI by your side.

• Cohort

  Solo Lab

  Find customers, price your work, and build a sustainable independent business.

• Cohort

  Ship Factory

  Build systems for directing agents and running more software experiments.

• Workshop

  AI Workshop

  Learn practical AI tools and workflows through hands-on projects.

• Self-paced course

  AHA Stack Masterclass

  Build server-rendered web applications with Astro, HTMX, and Alpine.js.

Looking for free material? Browse the free courses or get the books.