About
A studio of one.
Craftory is a one-person software studio in India, run by Anirban. I make small web apps that each do one everyday job, give most of them away, and sell the source code of some of them to other builders.
Why small
Small apps are the ones I can finish, keep running, and fix when they break. Each one gets its own subdomain, so it can grow, change or retire without dragging the others along.
When an app does one job, you can tell in ten seconds whether it is the right tool. That is the whole design brief.
Who does what
I write the code, the copy and the articles, and I answer the email. There is no team behind a contact form. If something is broken, hello@craftorytool.com reaches me, not a queue.
Money
How Craftory makes money.
Stated plainly, because software that hides its business model usually has a bad one.
Affiliate links
Some app results link to stores with an affiliate tag, such as Amazon Associates. If you buy, the store may pay a commission. Your price is the same.
Ads
Some pages show ads. They sit around the tool, never inside the part you came to use.
Subscriptions
Apps that cost real money to run, like Bookgen, get a paid plan. The price is on the app’s page before you pay.
Source kits
Builders buy the source code of some apps on Lemon Squeezy or Gumroad. This is what pays for new apps.
What I don’t do
- Sell or share your data.
- Charge for an app without showing the price up front.
- Show invented reviews, user counts or countdown timers.
Built in public
Everything gets written down.
Every app gets an article: how it works, what went wrong, what is next. If you want to know how something here was made, it is probably written up.