That was a GREAT read. Not only interesting from an indie dev point of view (lots of detail!) but I also got a very cool app out of it. Fascinating to hear about your switch back and forth between open source and commercial. Thanks for taking the time. Are you doing anything cool now?
Thank you for your reply! Since then, I've actually created many quirky products. The latest one I'm working on (currently in progress and unfinished) is this: https://www.turtlelm.org/ It's an unusual benchmark that evaluates LLMs through AI games.