> one_job
One job
One page that finishes one decision. Your colleague gets the answer without asking you first.
manifesto
Your spreadsheet becomes a link this week
The 48-hour loop, the templates and the small community that get it there — even if your last side project died in a folder and you’ve never written a line of code.
[ $8/month · free trial first ]
[ skool community · 30-day money back ]
You built the logic. It works. Then someone emailed it, renamed it, and broke it.
Honest part first. Most people who join a community like this never ship anything, and the build is yours to do — nobody here does it for you.
So here’s the whole method, free, whether you join or not.
the_file
sec 01 / 10
The file everyone edits and nobody trusts
You know the file. Twelve tabs, four hidden columns, one formula only you understand.
Someone emails it. Someone renames it. By Friday there are three versions and no answer.
Then a colleague asks you for a number. You open the file, change two inputs, screenshot the result.
You paste that screenshot into an email. That’s your quote. That’s your demo.
Two of the three member apps further down replaced a spreadsheet. The third replaced calculations done by hand.
Different industries. Same file.
That file costs you two things. Time, because every request comes back to you. Trust, because a screenshot is easy to argue with.
A link fixes both. Your colleague changes the inputs themselves.
You stop being the help desk. The number stops being debatable.
[ current state: 3 versions ]
[ 1 owner · 0 answers ]
two_dead_ends
sec 02 / 10
Two roads that cost you months
> road_01
The ticket
So you ask IT. You write the ticket. You take your place in the queue.
The queue isn’t malice. It’s priorities, and yours is small.
Months later, the workflow changed and your spec is already wrong.
> road_02
The platform
So you try a big platform instead. Now you’re learning a tool, not solving your problem.
You model objects, set permissions, request a licence. Nothing has shipped yet.
Big platforms are built for a company’s hundredth process. Yours is the first one.
Both roads fail the same way. They make you buy scale before you have proof.
You don’t need scale. You need one person to use one thing once.
Skip both and you get this afternoon back.
[ ticket queue: not yours to control ]
[ platform: learn it first ]
[ a link: today ]
the_loop
sec 03 / 10
How the 48 hours actually go
Nothing here is clever. It’s one loop, run in the same order every time.
Take it and run it yourself. The whole thing is below.
- 01pick
Pick one decision somebody asks you about every week. One decision, not a system.
- 02plan
Write the inputs, outputs, constraints, edge cases. Half a page, not a spec.
- 03build
Open a template, paste the prompt, change the labels. You’re editing, not starting.
- 04test
Feed it your worst input and watch it break. Fix that, tighten the UI, stop.
- 05ship
Publish to MicroApp.live. Copy the URL. Send it to the one person who asked.
Then you wait. If they open it twice, build the next version. If they never open it, delete it.
That last part is what pays you. Being wrong costs you an hour, not a quarter.
Level 1 runs entirely in the browser. No database, no login, no secrets sitting in the client.
That’s the only reason it takes about an hour instead of half a year. There’s almost nothing to break.
Sheets, a CRM, PDFs, real accounts — those are levels 2 and 3. You add them once somebody is actually using the thing.
[ level 1 build: ~1 hour ]
[ first link live: 48 hours ]
[ backend required: none ]
receipts
sec 04 / 10
Three links, built by members
These were built with the same templates and prompts you get on day one. Not by me.
JointMix Planner
contractor
- replaced
- manual volume calculations + spreadsheet
- shipped
- guided estimator with bag count + safety margins
- result
- faster project quotes
open microapp
RentWatch
property manager
- replaced
- manual payment tracking in a spreadsheet
- shipped
- shareable link to track tenant payments
- result
- simplified payment tracking
open microapp
Paint Calculator
dealer
- replaced
- manual coverage calculations
- shipped
- quick calculator for paint dealers
- result
- consistent estimates for customers
open microapp
I could put percentages on those results. I don’t have them, so I won’t. Those are the members’ own words about their own tools — open the links and judge for yourself.
Same rule on the reviews. There are 50 verified Google reviews. 48 of them are five stars. One is four stars. One is a single star, and its entire text is “Good source of learning thank you” — which I’d call a misclick, but I’m not going to hide it to average myself up.
So the number is 4.9, not 5.0. All 50 are public. Go and read the bad one first.
[ 48 of 50 google reviews: five stars · the other two are public too ]
beliefs
sec 05 / 10
Five things I’d tell you on day one, if we only had a minute.
- 01
Ship small today and you stop waiting on anyone.
- 02
One job gets used. A platform gets abandoned.
- 03
Send a link and the questions stop coming to you.
- 04
A day of real usage beats a month of specs.
- 05
Proof gets you the integration. Specs get you a queue.
principles
sec 06 / 10
> ship_first
Ship first
Browser-only, live in about an hour, with a UI checklist so it doesn’t look like a first attempt.
> no_tickets
No tickets
Publish a URL your team opens today. No queue, no licence request, no spec review.
> repeatable
Repeatable
Templates and prompts you reuse every week. The next one is a copy, not a project.
safe by default
Level 1 keeps secrets out of the browser and skips the backend entirely. Fewer moving parts means less to breach — and a shorter conversation with IT.
When you genuinely need Sheets, a CRM, or logins, levels 2 and 3 show you how to add them cleanly.
levels
sec 07 / 10
Three levels. One path.
Start browser-only. Add automation, AI, and accounts only after the tool has earned it.
lvl 1
Fast microapps
- Ship a working selector or calculator in ~1 hour
- Template pack + UI checklist included
- Deploy on MicroApp.live with hosting
~1 hour · microapp.live
most popular
lvl 2
Automation + AI backend
- Connect Sheets/CRM and generate branded PDFs
- Log to deal records with reusable workflows
- Automation + AI handoffs ready to import
n8n · integrations
lvl 3
User accounts + portals
- Add auth and simple RBAC to your tools
- Save/load configs with audit-friendly logs
- Ship portal patterns your team can reuse
auth + rbac · portals
what_you_get
sec 08 / 10
Inside the community
Everything is built for one outcome: your first microapp live this week.
- Plan → Build → Test → Ship microapp playbook
- Plug-and-play app templates + reusable prompts and styles
- One-click deploy + free hosting on MicroApp.live
- Community + weekly support calls
bonuses
+ Daily QA with Hans
+ n8n scripts + templates
+ VPS setup guide
+ Client-ready demo apps
my_side
sec 09 / 10
My side of the deal
why i run this
Fair question, so here it is. The community is the only thing I sell on this site.
No call to book. No application. No tier where somebody else builds it for you.
So the only version of this that works for me is the one where you ship.
the ask
It’s $8 a month.
That’s about 26 cents a day, or $96 a year. Publishing on MicroApp.live stays free either way.
And you don’t start there. There’s a free trial first, so the first thing you pay me is nothing.
why it’s only eight dollars
Eight dollars for daily access to the person who builds these is a strange price. So here’s the actual arithmetic.
There are 25 people in here as I write this. Twenty-five times eight is two hundred dollars a month.
That’s not a business. It doesn’t pay for a support team, and it isn’t meant to.
Here’s how I actually make my living. I consult and build these tools for companies, and MicroApp.live is the thing I’m growing. Every member who ships something and hosts it there is worth more to me than your eight dollars.
So I priced it for the outcome I want. A big number and a big launch gets me a crowd that refunds in month two. Eight dollars gets me the people who’d have built something anyway.
That’s the whole trade. You get in cheap. I get builders who ship and stay.
what the eight dollars is actually for
Not the method. You just read the method, and it’s free.
You’re paying for two things. A template pack and prompts, so you start from a working file instead of a blank one. And me answering you every day.
That second one is the real cost. Daily QA is one person, and there’s no support team behind me.
Which is also why I’d rather you shipped in week one. A member who ships asks better questions than a member who watches.
Think about this for a second. If an hour of your time is worth more than eight dollars, you’ve already done the maths on this page.
who’s answering
I’m Hans. I build small software tools for a living — ROI calculators, workflow tools, customer-facing demos.
I also consult for larger companies. Europcar and Grundfos are two of them.
That’s who reads your question when you post it. Not a moderator.
four things people say
“I’m not a developer.” You start from a template and a prompt, not a blank file.
“I don’t have time.” Level 1 is about an hour. The first one is the slowest you’ll ever build.
“My data is sensitive.” Level 1 has no backend. There’s nowhere for your inputs to go.
“Eight dollars — what’s the catch?” The catch is that nobody builds it for you. If that’s a dealbreaker, read the next section and close the tab.
— Hans Thisen · founder · [email protected]
[ ai + automation consultant ]
[ europcar · grundfos ]
not_for_you
sec 10 / 10
Please don’t join if this is you
Eight dollars is cheap enough to join carelessly. That’s the one risk in pricing it this low, so let me spend the section fixing it. Four cases where you should close this tab.
> case_01
You collect courses.
You’ll get a fourth login and no app. Eight dollars isn’t the loss. The month you spend feeling productive is.
> case_02
You won’t ship in week one.
The templates go stale in your head. Come back the week you actually have the hour.
> case_03
You want it built for you.
Nobody in here will build it for you. You’d be paying to be disappointed, cheaply.
> case_04
You can’t post your work.
Daily QA means showing me the broken thing. If that’s not you, the best part of this is wasted on you.
I’d rather this stayed small and shipping than got big and quiet.
If you read the loop above and thought “I could do that tomorrow” — you’re the one I wrote this for.
[ not a course ]
[ not done-for-you ]
[ not a place to lurk ]
join
Ship one microapp. This week.
Start the trial for the playbook, the templates, the prompts, and the weekly call. $8 a month, free trial first. Publish free on MicroApp.live, then send the link instead of the file.
Daily QA is one person. Me. That’s why the calls are weekly and not on demand.
So here’s the only difference between starting today and starting next week, and it isn’t a discount. There’s one call a week. Start later and your first question waits a week longer to get answered in it.
The second reason is just arithmetic. There are 25 people in here. At 25, the founder reads your post the same day. There’s no cap and I’m not inventing one — but the version of this where I answer you personally exists at 25 members and won’t at 500.
[ support calls: weekly ]
[ daily qa: one person ]
[ members at writing: 25 ]
worst case
Let’s do the worst case out loud, in order.
Door one. You start on the free trial. You pay nothing to see the inside, build your first app, and leave. There is no worst case here. There’s no money in it yet.
Door two. Say you stay, so it’s $8. A week later you decide it isn’t for you. Email [email protected] any time inside 30 days and the $8 comes back. There’s nothing to send back.
Door three. You keep the app either way. Hosting on MicroApp.live is free with me or without me, so the link you sent your colleague still works on Monday. The loop is yours too — it’s printed above, free, whether you join or not.
So here’s the worst case in one sentence: you spend an hour, walk away with a live tool that keeps working, and the eight dollars is back in your account.
I can’t make that any safer. I’ve stopped trying.
[ free trial ]
[ 30-day money-back guarantee ]
[ hosting stays free ]
questions · [email protected]
p.s.
Everything in one place, in case you skipped the letter.
You get the Plan → Build → Test → Ship playbook, the template pack, reusable prompts and styles, one-click deploy, free hosting on MicroApp.live, weekly support calls, and daily QA with me. Bonuses: n8n scripts, the VPS setup guide, client-ready demo apps.
It’s $8 a month, and there’s a free trial before that. Twenty-five members at eight dollars is two hundred a month, which should tell you this room isn’t my business model — it’s where I meet the people who use MicroApp.live.
Thirty days to change your mind after the trial, money back by email, and you keep whatever you built. The hosting stays free either way.
Forty-eight of my fifty Google reviews are five stars. The other two are public as well, and I’d rather you read those first.
One thing to do: start the free trial. Then build the thing your colleague keeps asking you for.