Software that handles the parts of your day you'd rather not.
Lindforge is a one-person studio. My first product, ColdSignal, is in private beta; the rest are still in the workshop. Every build starts the same way: I find a chore people repeat every day, then make something that quietly takes it off their plate.
I'm Rickard Lindbom, the person behind Lindforge.
I started Lindforge to build the focused apps I actually want to use, and to ship them properly: the design, the engineering, and the AI under the hood, all in one pair of hands. Based in Sweden. You can reach me directly at rickard@lindforge.dev.
What I can build
I'm a generalist by necessity. Working solo means I can't camp in one vertical, so I've built the range to move between very different problems and treat each as its own focused product.
- Business intelligence
- Turning raw operational data into a view a non-analyst can act on without opening a spreadsheet.
- Social & wellness
- Software that helps people stay in touch and stay well without becoming another thing demanding their attention.
- Gaming AI
- Assistants and automation that handle the repetitive grind, so the hours you spend in a game go to the part you actually wanted to play.
- Learning & productivity
- Tools that cut the admin around studying and daily work, so less of the day goes to managing the day.
How I work
Just me, no ceremony. A few habits do most of the heavy lifting.
Ship the smallest version that proves the idea.
The first build of any app does one thing, end to end. If that one thing isn't worth using on its own, no amount of features will rescue it later.
Measure before tuning.
I instrument the real workflow and watch where people actually stall before I touch performance or polish. Guessing at bottlenecks wastes the week.
Keep data on the device when I can.
Local-first storage means the app keeps working offline, starts faster, and the user's data isn't sitting on a server that has no reason to hold it.
Treat the boring parts as the product.
Sync, backups, error states, the empty screen on day one. These decide whether someone keeps an app installed, so I build them early instead of bolting them on.
Where I stand
Privacy isn't a setting
I default to local storage and collect the minimum it takes to make the app work. There's no second business model quietly selling what you do inside my apps.
I'd rather ship less
A smaller app that holds up beats a bloated one that stays busy. When a feature doesn't earn its place, I cut it before it ever reaches you.
No overhead to pass on
It's just me, so there's no agency markup baked into the price: no account managers, no sales team, no office to keep the lights on. That's why my apps can stay cheap. You pay for the software, not the org chart around it.
Have a chore worth automating?
Tell me what eats your week. If it's a fit, I'll scope it. If it isn't, I'll tell you that too.