A one-person software shop quietly shipping apps that respect your device, your time, and your wallet. Local-first by default. Honest flat pricing. Zero tracking. No data mining. Ever.
The story
Since 2014
FriDev started in 2014, while I was working a full-time job. Every Friday evening I'd carve out a few hours to build the small, useful tools my friends and I actually wanted to use, the kind of software no one else would bother shipping.
Friday-night experiments turned into apps. Apps turned into millions of downloads. And the habit, ship something useful, keep it honest, never waste a person's time, stuck around.
Still indie
Every app on this site is designed, built, and shipped by one person. That means we can do the small things right. Native feel. Clear pricing. No dark patterns. No "engagement metrics."
If something breaks, you email me, not a ticket queue.
Principles
The phone in your pocket has a neural engine. The Mac on your desk runs LLMs locally. We use that compute instead of renting it back to you.
Most software does not need a datacenter. When work has to leave the device, we land it on edge networks ~30 ms from you.
Flat prices a normal person can afford. No per-minute fees. No usage anxiety. No surprise overage charges in your inbox.
We do not run analytics on you. We do not sell anything to anyone. The thing you bought is the product, you are not.
Data that never leaves your machine cannot be lost, leaked, subpoenaed, or sold. The strongest privacy story is no upload at all.
Airplane mode on purpose. Native apps that feel like the platform. We obsess over the small stuff because nobody else will.
Shipping now
More Friday-night projects on the way.
Who builds this
The whole team
Founder, designer, engineer, support.
Software engineer and entrepreneur with stops at Apple, Amazon (warehouse robotics and personalization), and Canvas Technology (self-driving robots). Founded Nexim, a web host that grew to 7,000 monthly customers, and shipped NepaliSpeech, the first Nepali text-to-speech, built during the 2015 earthquake.
Currently cofounder and CEO of echowin, an AI call-answering platform for small businesses. FriDev is the night-and-weekend shop where the smaller, sharper ideas still get to ship.