Canvas of Kings grids, 12-bit rainbow palette, One-Person Framework in practice, Skin Deep Sketches.

You can save/load an infinite number of your grid settings - at any time.

Very nice looking ‘mapmaking tool’, Canvas of Kings in action.

The ability to move underlying grids around so sections are lined up, but misaligned from the ‘world’ grid as you the player sees fit.

A palette of twelve colours chosen with consideration for how we perceive luminance, chroma, and hue.

This is a nice palette.

How I built a seven-figure business with Rails

In early 2022, when we counted our ARR at PlanGo, my co-founder and I shared a moment that we couldn’t believe. We just crossed the magical €1M ARR milestone, something that felt unreal for a company built on one Rails codebase and one developer (me).

Bram chronicles building a startup with Rails back in 2011, which opens quite interestingly:

To kickstart PlanGo, my co-founder had this brilliant marketing idea: offer our software completely free for the first year to anyone who signed up during launch week. We expected maybe a few dozen curious users would take us up on the offer.

We got 500 signups in the first week.

That’s crazy! Getting to that many users quickly seems like no easy feat, I assume this was a different world back in 2011 to now, but those early users must have been gold.

Around the end of 2022, something unexpected happened. A foreign investor approached us, interested in PlanGo. By that time, we’d grown beyond €1M ARR, all bootstrapped and profitable. No outside funding, no massive team, just a lean operation powered by Rails.

What a position to be in, very cool.

Brendon shows some amazing in-dev sketches of Skin Deep, my favourite being the first one from 2015:

I wish the ‘time until next fart’ made it into retail…