It’s live.
Not “soft launch, tell your friends quietly, see if the server falls over” live. Actually live. You can go to fwip.app right now, use the tools in your browser for free, and if you want to keep them forever and run them offline, you can own them. One payment. No subscription. No account. The files never leave your machine.
That last part was the whole point. Everything else was just the work of getting there.
The honest version of how this went
A launch post is supposed to make it sound inevitable. It wasn’t. The build was long, the edge cases were many, and the last fortnight was mostly small unglamorous fixes: a keyboard that wouldn’t come up on mobile, a licence check pointed at the wrong place, a payment processor that took two weeks to enable the right account. None of it makes a good headline. All of it had to be right before anyone could trust us with fifteen dollars.
We are lean by design. That means the list of things to fix and the list of people to fix them was, often, the same short list. It also means every decision was deliberate. Nothing shipped because a roadmap said so. It shipped because it was ready.
Thank you
To everyone who tested something, broke something, pointed at something that looked off, or just said “this is good, keep going” when keep going was the hard part: thank you. You know who you are, and you know what you found. The product is better because you didn’t let the rough bits slide.
To the people who believed fwip was worth building before there was anything to show: that matters more than it sounds.
This is the start, not the finish
Going live is not the end of the list. It’s the top of a new one.
There’s a lot coming. More tools. Faster AI that doesn’t make your browser sweat. Batch processing for when one file at a time isn’t enough. The things people have asked for, built in the order that helps the most people first.
We are not stopping here. We are barely starting.
Tell us things
We read everything that comes in. Not “we have a team that triages tickets.” We read it. If a tool is missing, if something broke, if you have an idea that would make your file work less annoying, email hello@fwip.app and it will be read by a person who can actually do something about it.
That is the quiet advantage of being small. You are not shouting into a void. You are talking to the people who make the thing.
Thanks for being here at the start.
fwip.
