Six products, two people
Surfzone is two people in Estonia: Priit writes the code, Karolin answers the mail. Since 12 October we make six products. This is what they are, and how we keep them running.
What we make
- HAkiosk turns an Android tablet or an iPad into a full-screen kiosk for Home Assistant dashboards, menus and signage. Free on Google Play with a one-time Pro unlock, and €4.99 once on the App Store.
- MAIMU shows where a Mac's disk space went and deletes only what you confirm. €9.99 once.
- QSL Buddy logs ham radio contacts, works offline in the field and keeps one logbook across your devices. Free.
- MenuMog puts a café's or restaurant's menu on a TV, a tablet or a QR code, edited from a phone. Free while it grows.
- lookunique draws your idea or your photo in its own dot style and prints it on a t-shirt, to order. From €29.90.
- IndieBob is analytics, a blog and cold outreach for people who sell software on their own. Free plan; Plus is €9 a month.
How two people split six products
Priit builds all six. Karolin reads every message that comes in, to any of them, and answers in five languages. We answer within a day, usually sooner.
Each product is sold and supported on its own site, with its own prices written on the page.
What keeps it from falling over
We use each one first. Every product started as a problem we had, and we use each one before anyone else does.
Each one lives on its own. Six codebases and six sites. A bad day in one does not reach the others.
One tool does the marketing. IndieBob is the one we built to run the rest: the analytics, the notes and the outreach for the others go through it. This site runs on its free plan.
The AI is ours. IndieBob's writing and lookunique's drawings run on our own solar-powered, battery-backed AI farm.
What waits
Two people means some things wait, and we would rather say so. HAkiosk has no Home Assistant discovery on iOS yet. MenuMog takes no online payment. QSL Buddy has no native phone app. When one of these changes, it will be a note here.
