What you give it,
it keeps.
Source Dragon is a one-person software company. Two products, both live, both built to hold onto something worth keeping — the original file you made, and the promise you made yourself.
Artive
artivegallery.com
Three of the eighteen mouldings. Every piece hangs in one.
A portfolio and community platform for artists. Upload a piece and it hangs in a real frame — eighteen mouldings, from plain wood to Baroque gilt — instead of sitting in a grid as a bare thumbnail.
Underneath the gallery is the vault. The untouched original stays stored privately and timestamped, and you can download it any time. That makes it evidence of authorship, not just a backup.
Around the work there's a daily drawing prompt built from the moods you pick, a weekly prompt every artist answers onto one shared public wall, private one-to-one feedback threads on individual pieces, and a Discover feed.
- status
- Live, taking subscriptions
- price
- $8 a month, or $88 a year
- trial
- 14 days
- built on
- Next.js, Supabase, Stripe, Claude
- install
- Web, installable as a PWA
Texts From Bro
textsfrombro.com- remind me to hit the gym at 6
- 6am. logged.
- 6:00 AM
- it's 6. gym.
- five more minutes
- no.
An accountability app that lives in the Messages app you already read. Text a number in plain language — remind me to hit the gym at 6 — and Bro texts you back at six, in character, without much sympathy.
People mute reminder apps. Nobody ignores a text. Bro sits in the same list as your actual friends, which is the entire point.
There is nothing to download. You sign up by texting the number.
- status
- Live
- signup
- Text the number, no app
- built on
- Node, Postgres, Twilio, Claude
- carrier
- Registered A2P 10DLC in the US
- next
- A native iOS app
The company
Source Dragon LLC builds and runs its own products rather than taking client work. Two are live today, and both were designed, built, and shipped by one person.
The stack stays deliberately unexciting: Postgres, Stripe, Claude, and a lot of attention to what happens when something breaks at three in the morning. Access rules live in the database rather than in application code. Backups run nightly and off-site. Every upload is moderated before anyone sees it.
Neither of these is a demo. They take real money from real people, and they are built to still be standing in five years.