Founder of OneMana · engineer · builder
I build things that help teams work together without paying a per-seat SaaS tax every month. Right now that's OneCamp: a self-hosted, open-source workspace with chat, tasks, docs, video calls, a calendar and AI. This is where I write down what I shipped and what broke.
Everyone in a project now has a role, and its members add and change its tasks without waiting for an admin. Tables keep every change, so you can undo it, read a row's history and bring back what was deleted, and a row can carry comments...
Since the chat post, OneCamp has had four releases, with AI and without. The biggest gives docs room for a whole team: pages in a tree, comments on the exact words, sharing by person or team until a date you choose, v...
I set out to compare OneCamp's chat with Slack, one part at a time. Before I got to anything Slack has, the review found more than fifty things our chat got wrong by its own rules: thread replies that told the wrong p...
OneCamp's docs have the blocks people who write in Notion reach for without thinking: toggles that each reader opens for themselves, simple tables, equations, callouts, a table of contents, code blocks that draw Merma...
OneCamp's third look: no top bar, one sidebar that holds the workspace, search and you, a single command palette that can also answer, and every screen rebuilt to one standard. Typing in a message box does a third of ...
A colour for every person, project and channel. Themes that recolour the whole frame. Illustrations where a screen is empty. Then the speed work: a sent message shows in 16 ms instead of 489, and typing in a long doc ...
Going through every OneCamp screen for the redesign meant opening a lot of tasks and running a lot of imports. Three things happened that shouldn't have: opening a task could record an edit nobody made, an import coul...
The anti-SaaS workspace. Chat, kanban boards, collaborative docs, video meetings, calendar sync, and a local AI assistant, all running on your own server. No per-seat pricing.
A multiuser whiteboard and chat, with no database.
Fault tolerance in monitoring distributed systems. The leader node checks the CPU and memory use of each server and commits that data to every server.
A REST API that runs health checks and tells the user when the status of a response code changes.
I write when something ships or breaks, which is often. Follow along in your feed reader, or on X.