The year ends soon

Make 2027 the year you keep.

Plan it with Planner, remember it with Dogood. Two calm apps that work without an account, and two gifts that last longer than the holidays.

For your 2027 resolutions

Planner. Plan the year, one day at a time

Pick what matters for 2027, close each day on purpose and keep the whole year in view. No account, works offline, installs like an app.

For someone you love

Dogood. A year that becomes a book

A private journal that stays on their device. A few lines a day, and Dogood Plus for life, with every photo and their years as books any print shop can print.

More from the workshop

Everything I make

Software that earns its place in your day.

Four products, five free tools and more in the works, designed, built and run by one person. Most of them work without an account and keep your data on your device.

In the works

Free tools

None of them needs an account.

FreePrompt kit · 15 prompts · copy in one click

The copy-paste prompt kit

Fifteen prompts that do real work, from the idea to the launch. Fill in three fields once, copy, paste into Claude, ChatGPT or any assistant.

  • 3Plan
  • 5Build
  • 4Launch
  • 3Grow

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Portrait of Ben Morin Ben Morin Product engineer

Who builds them

I’m Ben Morin. I design, build and run everything on this page.

Before software, I sold bikes in a Montréal shop and led teams at Europcar. I still work the same way: start with the bottleneck, and remove before adding.

Writing

All writing
  1. A Practical Introduction to LLM Orchestration, Vector Databases, and AI Agents
  2. How to Build Reliable LLM Workflows
  3. How I run this site without a CMS database or mail server
  4. How the Notes page stays fast with hundreds of entries

Notes

All notes
  1. What remains after thought Simplicity is not the absence of thought. It is what remains after thought has done its work.
  2. Clarity over busyness A personal website should clarify the work, not perform busyness.
  3. The boundary between product and engineering The boundary between product and engineering between product and engineering is crossed often.

Almanack runs this site

Like this site? Make it yours.

The same pages, editor and course platform, with your products and your words. Paid once, on hosting that costs nothing for most sites.

  • Write in a real editorEvery word a Markdown file in your own GitHub.
  • Sell without a platformCourses and challenges, with Stripe, Creem or PayPal.
  • Nothing to maintainNo server, database or plugins. Free hosting for most sites.
  • Know who reads youVisits, sign-ups and sales, without cookies.

From $290€290, paid once. Or set up for you, on your domain.

Before you goFree · 5 days

Launch your personal brand site in 5 days

A free challenge: about two hours a day, from one clear sentence about you to a site on your own domain. Or skip the build and start from this one.

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It's yours

Done

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