AJ Batac's profile on Product Hunt

About

I’m AJ (Allan) Batac, a solo founder and senior full‑stack developer based in Toronto, building opinionated tools for developers and everyday users. I’ve spent 20+ years shipping web apps, managing cloud infrastructure, and handling everything from DNS to deployment automation for organizations like FSRA. On the side, I run indie projects like Joye (smart resumes from LinkedIn), Kulay (2,550 hand‑picked color palettes), and Sudokuh, because I love turning tiny frustrations into simple, fast, and safe products. When I’m not debugging or refining UX, you’ll usually find me with a camera, reading about the future, or hanging out with my dogs.

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Maker History

FOSSYDiscover, Discuss FOSS Software and Contributors.
Jun 2026
Pixel IQAI-powered image intelligence platform
May 2026
KulayGenerate, analyze, mock apps from colours & gradients
DotsLifeSee Your Life in Dots – Journal, Tasks & Feelings
Mar 2026
RephrAIsPrivacy first, AI-powered rephraser. Runs entirely offline.
Mar 2026

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7d ago

You run npm install daily but never think about the humans behind them. Should that change?

Here's a hard truth nobody wants to say out loud:

The open-source community you talk about on LinkedIn? It's mostly extractive now.

We all stand on the shoulders of giants. Every project you ship, every startup you build ... it's built on packages and tools that real people poured their nights and weekends into. For free.

p/fossy

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8d ago

Do you ever feel invisible as an open-source developer?

I spent the weekend scrolling through GitHub. Not for code. For connection. And I realized something that made me kind of sad.

The open-source world is full of incredible people building beautiful, thoughtful, generous things for free. They give their time, their skills, their best ideas and then their work disappears into the void because no one ever sees it.

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7d ago

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