open for the right team

I turn “what if” into something you can log into.

Simon here. Twenty-plus years of shipping software — online stores back when that was a novelty, SaaS tools today, AI wherever it actually earns its keep. I like taking a rough idea, writing the first commit, and not stopping until real people are using it. And paying for it.

open for the
right team
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Simon S.
AI STACK ENTHUSIAST
est. 2003 — still deploying
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BASED IN
Freising, near Munich · Germany
ELSEWHERE
not a real barcode, just vibes

Two decades, one running build.

Everything below actually happened, in roughly this order.

career.log — zsh
simon@career:~$

pinned

Ideas that made it to production.

One flagship, a handful of side builds, and the infrastructure holding it all up.

beta

Payroll Manager

Hourly tracking and expense reconciliation that doesn't make anyone dread payday. In beta, in daily use.

PHP JavaScript Tailwind
alpha

Childcare App

Keeps a family childcare setup off sticky notes and group chats. Alpha, but already earning its keep.

SaaS MVP
side

ShareCart

A shopping list you can actually share. Small on purpose — good tools don't need to be big.

SaaS Sharing
infra

Nextcloud setups

Self-hosted Nextcloud instances, set up and kept alive on my own and customers' VPS boxes.

Self-hosting VPS
shipped

Store setups & connectors

Magento, Shopware, xt:Commerce — plus the connectors that get shop and shipping systems talking to each other.

Magento Shopware xt:Commerce

What's installed.

The dependencies I bring to a project, roughly ranked by how confidently I reach for them.

skills.json
{ "dependencies": { "saas-project-setup": "confident", "server-infrastructure": "self-hosted & happy", "supabase": "daily-driver", "nocode-backends": "when-it-fits", "ai-prompting": "claude-code, codex", "online-store-setups": "battle-tested", "java": "legacy, still solid", "html-css": "never obsolete", "customer-service": "built in, not bolted on", "german": "native", "english": "fluent, second only to german" } }

Honesty. Clear communication. Passion.

That's what I bring — and what I expect back. Here's the fine print for whoever I build with next.

What gets me up in the morning

  • Building something with a team that people actually pay for
  • Not just writing the software — helping get it in front of customers too
  • Anything involving AI, coding, or turning a mess into a product

What I'm looking for

  • A long-term project — building a genuinely valuable solution together with people who are as passionate about it as I am
  • People who own the backoffice, taxes, and cash flow so I don't have to
  • Communication that's honest and direct by default — no guessing games