- Posted in bedrock build-in-public open-source
I’m currently working on Bedrock 3, and I wanted to share some context about why I’m bringing this project back to life. Bedrock was a static site generator designed to create HTML/CSS prototypes, originally released in 2015 under an MIT license. We used it heavily at my previous design company, Mono. Bedrock 1 (2015) The […]
- Posted in bootstrap build-in-public screenshot-to-layout
We’re closing down our project Screenshot to Layout. Sometimes a project has to come to an end. We plan to run the functionality until November 30, 2025. After this, the plugin will cease to work. We will then shut down the servers running the project. We first released this plugin in the Summer of 2023. […]
- Posted in agency-life build-in-public hiring industry jobs
I started hiring again at Obra Studio. Find our jobs at our website: We’ve grown a lot since we started the agency in the beginning of 2025. We’re a solid team now looking to grow to the next level. A few things keep coming back in calls so I thought I’d write about them to […]
- Posted in agency-life build-in-public obra-studio ondernemen
Deze week ben ik nog eens in België. Ik reis een paar keer per jaar tussen België en Mexico, en mijn primair doel van de laatste twee trips was werkgerelateerd. Ik ben bezig met de opbouw van Obra Studio en telkens ik in België ben is het goed om klanten in het echt te zien, […]
- Posted in agency-life build-in-public obra-studio ondernemen
Ik heb gisteren na 4 maanden eindelijk nog eens de tijd gevonden om een ritje te maken met de fiets. Een vriend had een volgwagen geregeld. Met zijn drieën gingen we op weg naar Teotihuacan (ongeveer 60km van Mexico-Stad). Het was een fantastische fietsrit en ik was blij om nog eens iets anders te doen […]
- Posted in blijvend-leren build-in-public entrepreneurship obra-studio ondernemen
You can have these dreams about a cool design agency, but in the end, you have to treat it like a business. But if you treat it too much like a business, it becomes something else, something you might not agree with. This blog post is about purpose, strategy and vision. Three highly conceptual topics. […]
- Posted in build-in-public obra-studio process
I’ve noticed that a lot of people are following my story, which incentivizes me to write. Currently, I am doing design work for a start-up I believe in, while also juggling recruiting and business development. I am working 10 to 12 hour days and most weekends. It’s not sustainable, but I have the energy. My […]
- Posted in aspirations build-in-public entrepreneurship professioneel - 1 comment
Yesterday was my last day at Doccle, and I’ve been asked what I’m going to do now. Over the past few months I’ve been thinking about this. As I talked about in my “choose your own adventure” blog posts, different options were in my head: a full-time position at a US company; an agency; founding […]
- Posted in build-in-public obra-icons
I started working on Obra Icons in August 2023 with a first release in november 2023. Now one year later, the project is stronger than ever with it’s 2.0 release. It grew from 350 icons to over a thousand icons; and the quality of the set has vastly improved. Just two weeks ago, we released […]
- Posted in apps build-in-public
Yesterday I took the idea of prompting to make an iOS app much further than with my experiments of last week. I have this web-based version of a currency conversion app – which you can try here – and I converted most of the logic to an iOS app. I wanted to see how far […]