solo.ist
tools for the personal software era

What happens when AI can generate enterprise-grade software in an afternoon? What used to take weeks now happens in hours. The assumptions of value that justified SaaS and how we build software are quietly collapsing. In that world, it's all about the why. Ideas are everything.

solo.ist is an experiment to find out what personal software looks like when it's truly personal, generated for your own needs.

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Prose solo.ist/prose Live
A minimal markdown editor for the agentic era. If you work with AI, you know markdown is at the center of everything. Prose reimagines one of the simplest tools, the humble markdown editor, with integrated agentic features, and an MCP server that lets Claude Desktop read and edit your documents with the affordances of working with a human editor. Prose is local-first, so your files are plain .md, and your API keys are yours.

Why not just use Obsidian or iA Writer? Why build you own markdown editor? Because now you can, and it's trivial and fun to do so.

More importantly, because I can make what I'd want exactly how I'd like, and now with Prose you can too.
Electron TipTap MCP reMarkable MIT
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Coming Soon: Solo the Robot.
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solo.ist is the home for tools I build because I want them and the version I need doesn't exist. Everything is open source, MIT licensed, and designed to work for humans and agents alike.

Tools for the personal software era.

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