From a Tandy 16k in '81 to a local-first AI assistant in '26. Hi PH.

Hey all,

I'm Tery. I've been writing code since 1981 when my dad bought me a Tandy Color computer with a whopping 4k of RAM (I eventually spent a couple hundred dollars and upgraded to 16k!) I've never looked back. (I also 'adored my Commodore 64!')

Spent the 80s mostly playing and learning... then around 1990 I built my first real production thing: sales order/invoicing program in dBase that ran my own distribution company. (It worked. Mostly.)

In 1999 I shipped abcDB, a mobile database (think MS Access) for Windows PocketPC that ended up in 110+ countries and localized into Spanish and Japanese. That weird little achievement got me a flight to Microsoft HQ in 2004 as one of a handful of devs worldwide they wanted to talk to. Still one of the more surreal weeks of my career.

Since then I've been doing full-stack CRM and e-commerce work for customers across North America. Steady, solid, not flashy.

Now I've built the most ambitious thing I've ever shipped: MyHandler — a local-first AI assistant for Windows that watches your whole digital life and keeps it on YOUR machine, not someone else's cloud. Launching on PH June 23 (https://www.producthunt.com/products/my-handler-ai).

Why I'm here:

• Would love to connect with other solo founders — especially the bootstrapped / local-first / "not chasing a unicorn" crowd

• If you're launching soon, drop your product page below and I'll follow back

Looking forward to meeting some of you.

— Tery