Building for fun.

Hey IH!

A few months ago, I left my cozy, VC-backed software engineering job. I wanted to try building my own thing. In this economy! Crazy, right?

So… what to build... What. To. Build.

I’ve always loved animals and nature, and I knew I wanted to do something in the agtech space. One day, while browsing Reddit, I saw people sharing Excel spreadsheets to track their chickens' egg counts. Wat. Even worse — some were waiting for the new year to get the updated template. Double wat.

There had to be a better way.

Sure, a few chicken tracking apps exist, but most are clunky or half-abandoned. None are as fun (or ridiculous) as MotherFlocker. It started with egg and expense tracking. Then I added some AI chat, a few chicken scratch cartoons, and — of course — puns. Lots of puns.

I’ve been a professional software engineer for 12 years. Normally, when I talk about what I build, non-techies eyes glaze over. But this time? Everyone I tell about MotherFlocker laughs their ass off.

If this doesn’t work out, at least I had fun building something that makes people smile.