Stefan Malzner · Writing

The whole setup runs on two subscriptions from two companies, one building and one checking.

Printing for a young mail client, a freeze, a runaway log, a marketing decision and a stable release, all on one Thursday.

One of them changes live ad bids inside a fence made of code.

Since May, 644 support mails arrived and a model drafted an answer for nearly all of them. 16 replies went out the way the machine wrote them.

A bot opened a pull request that reads completely fine.

One night my test suite reported that most of the product was broken.

I've run Franz with up to five people.

In the same week, Franz got featured on both Hacker News and Product Hunt.

When the cost of building drops to near zero, the scarce skill is no longer building.

Why long-time free users now share the same Franz 6 plan as everyone else, what still works in Franz 5, and why paid users keep Franz alive for the next decade.

Privacy is not a privacy policy.

Franz turns ten this year.