Original posts and cross-posts from meetfranz.com.
One night my test suite reported that most of the product was broken. Nothing was actually broken. The next step in that queue is an agent whose job is to make failing tests pass, and the only reason it stayed asleep was a number I had set for an unrelated reason.
I've run Franz with up to five people. Alone today I get more done than we did back then. But speed isn't the change I'd point at. What changed is that everything I used to do once in an eternity now runs every day, and gets a little better each time.
In the same week, Franz got featured on both Hacker News and Product Hunt. One sent roughly ten times the traffic of the other. The headline number lies in both directions, and what you do with the single day matters more than the size of it.
When the cost of building drops to near zero, the scarce skill is no longer building. It's knowing what to build, validating it and being able to tell its story. That's the product muscle, and most builders never had to train it.
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. It's a vendor list. Why every server, AI call, and email Franz touches answers to a European court. A founder's note.
Franz turns ten this year. Franz 6 ships now. A founder's note on a weekend prototype, a fundraise we skipped, and why one person is the point.