Gleepot is a grassroots effort, not a growth story. There's no investor round to satisfy and no engagement target to hit — just tools built because they're worth building. Some are experiments, many are small, but all of it is built to a professional standard — priced free, pay-what-you-can, or paid outright. All of it funded by the people who actually use it.

A lot of it is privacy work — designing around cryptography, and a running education in zero-knowledge techniques: proving something is true without revealing the thing itself. That often means rethinking a common approach from scratch, including a full rebuild, instead of patching what's already there.

Most of it is closer to research than product — genuinely experimental, built loose enough to change shape as it's understood better, and sturdy enough that today's prototype doesn't get thrown away once it grows up.

The measure of a good tool here isn't how it looks, it's how it works: a fast search bar or a terminal beats endless scrolling, every time. That's the bet, and it's the part I actually know how to build well.

Chipping in works closer to livestream crowdsourcing than a donation box — sometimes what you fund is just for you, sometimes it's a push toward something the whole community ends up getting. It's also how you show me which projects and ideas matter most — say which one in the note when you chip in. This is the first post. More is coming.