Permisoft

I'm looking to connect with developers who enjoy building real software products.

Not necessarily people looking for a job, co-founder position, or funding. I'm simply interested in meeting others who are focused on creating useful applications and shipping products that people genuinely want to use.

Over the past several months I've been building desktop applications and working on a software marketplace centered around software ownership, privacy, and straightforward pricing. Along the way I've realized that it's surprisingly difficult to find developers who are interested in discussing these ideas.

Many communities seem heavily focused on growth, fundraising, AI products, subscriptions, and rapid scaling. Those are all valid topics, but I'm often more interested in conversations about product design, desktop applications, local-first software, user trust, and creating tools that solve practical problems.

If you're building software because you enjoy the craft of creating useful products, I'd love to connect and hear what you're working on.

What are you building? What motivates you to keep building? And where do developers with similar interests usually gather these days?

Permisoft started with a simple observation.

Over the past decade, it feels like software has steadily moved away from ownership and toward renting. Products that were once purchased outright are now subscriptions. Applications that could run entirely on a user's machine increasingly require accounts, cloud connectivity, recurring payments, and acceptance of whatever direction the vendor decides to take the product.

As a software engineer, I understand why some of these changes happened. There are plenty of products where subscriptions make perfect sense. If a product relies on cloud infrastructure, collaboration features, AI workloads, hosted databases, or ongoing operational costs, recurring revenue is often necessary.

What I started questioning was why the same model was being applied to software that could realistically operate without those costs.

At the same time, I had been working on software projects of my own and ran into another problem that I think many independent developers eventually discover. Building software is difficult, but getting people to discover it can be even harder. Search is changing rapidly. Advertising is expensive. App stores are crowded. Distribution has become one of the biggest challenges facing independent developers.

The more I thought about it, the more I realized these two problems might actually be connected.

Users are looking for alternatives to subscription-driven software. Independent developers are looking for ways to get their products in front of users. Yet there doesn't seem to be a modern marketplace built specifically around software ownership and independent software distribution.

That realization eventually became Permisoft.

My goal is not to replace every subscription service or argue that all software should be sold the same way. I simply believe there should be a place where developers can sell software that users genuinely own, and where consumers can discover alternatives that prioritize ownership, privacy, local-first functionality, and long-term control over the tools they use.

Permisoft is still in its early stages, but the vision is straightforward: create a marketplace where software is treated as a product again, not just a service.