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Engineer and founder building Folio. Folio is a local-first desktop writing app for authors building novels, books, and long-form manuscripts. It keeps projects in plain Markdown on disk while adding structure, planning, revision tools, codex/worldbuilding, exports, and AI assistance.

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Maker History

  • Folio Dark Muse
    Folio Dark MuseA local-first writing IDE for books
    May 2026
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    Joined Product HuntApril 2nd, 2026

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Product Hunt 🤝 Vercel

We teamed up with Vercel and we want you shipping this Friday.
May 15 is Vercel Day. Launch your product on Product Hunt that day with the Vercel Day tag and you're on the official Vercel Day leaderboard alongside every other builder going live that day. Top launches win prizes and get serious visibility from a crowd that's already paying attention.
This is the move if you've been waiting for a reason to launch. You've got four days.
What are you building? Drop it below

Product Hunt 🤝 Vercel

We teamed up with Vercel and we want you shipping this Friday.
May 15 is Vercel Day. Launch your product on Product Hunt that day with the Vercel Day tag and you're on the official Vercel Day leaderboard alongside every other builder going live that day. Top launches win prizes and get serious visibility from a crowd that's already paying attention.
This is the move if you've been waiting for a reason to launch. You've got four days.
What are you building? Drop it below

Shipped v0.1.9 of Folio - a local-first IDE for writing novels

I'm building Folio - a desktop IDE for novelists who want a code-editor workflow

(panels, keyboard-driven, fast file ops) instead of a Word/Scrivener vibe.

It's local-first: every chapter is a Markdown file on your disk. No accounts,

no cloud sync, no telemetry. If Folio disappears tomorrow, your manuscript is

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