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From Farm to Mac App Store: How Heberti Built Pinery for Authors
Building Pinery with Heberti Almeida
Summary
From a stormy Brazilian farm to the Mac App Store. Former Square engineer Heberti Almeida spent seven years turning a side project into Pinery, a focused Markdown writing and self-publishing app for Mac. We cover privacy-first on-device AI, clean ePub and PDF export, subscription pricing that sustains indie software, and how tractor time can sharpen product thinking.
Who this is for
Indie hackers
Technical founders
Author-creators
Anyone seeking a calm, private, production-grade writing workflow
Product snapshot
Pinery: Markdown editor for writing…
The skinny
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