brian schrader

Hey All, Grove is my first game and my first fitness app. I built Grove to help people get outside, have fun, learn about the outdoors, and to teach the mechanics of Carbon Capture and Sequestration in a fun way! Grove is part game, part educational app, and part wellness app! In Grove you care for your trees and tend to your garden, and in turn, you stay fit and healthy. Each tree has a...

I wrote this book during the summer while cooped up due to the pandemic. Going Indie is both a reflection on my attempts to go independent as well as a collection of tips, tricks, and advice for those just starting out. It's filled with insights, strategies, and techniques on everything from business terminology to software development. I hope you like the book and if you're interested please...

Author here! You're a developer and you're looking to start a business. I was like that once. Starting a business takes a lot more than knowing how to write good code, and as I've learned, starting a software business involves just as much business acumen as it does software development. I've been releasing software independently for years and I've had a day-job for the vast majority of that...

Hey everyone, creator here! I made Hewell to help people discover the deep and unique history of the world around them. Hewell helps you discover interesting places when you're out and about and lets you have fun exploring the world around you. I know I've spent hours browsing Wikipedia only to discover something new about my city, state, or country. And I know I've also missed out on a lot...

Creator here! I've been playing D&D for years and whenever I've run a campaign it's always been a struggle to find good images to use that evoke the feeling I'm going for. And for those who are trying to write and sell their campaigns and stories, finding free-to-use images can be incredibly challenging. That's where d20.photos comes in. I built this site to help everyone who makes and...

Hey all! I built this site after seeing Apple's WWDC Keynote this morning. Apple is announcing new Privacy Disclosures in iOS 14 and I thought it was such a great idea that I adopted it for the Web. I added in the environmental impact because it's important to me and I think more sites should start thinking about it. I myself have recently started migrating my services over to renewable-powered...

Hey all, I designed and built Nine9s to help all the hobbyists, indie-devs, and small shops get effective, powerful Uptime Monitoring that doesn't cost an arm and a leg. Nine9s is designed to be simple, easy to use, and useful no matter your budget. Check out the roadmap for what's coming: https://nine9s.cloud/kb/feature-roadmap Nine9s is also designed with the environment in mind. Nine9s...

Pine.blog creator Brian here! Pine.blog is a new kind of feed reader that makes the web itself a social network with the ability to post to your own site. Pine.blog gives you a clean, twitter-like feed of posts from sites and people you follow, allows you to comment back to those sites on your own blog, and makes discovering new stuff to follow easier than ever with its built-in site search...