Grisloup's name is Guillaume. I am a happy husband and father, a Senior DevOps engineer and Product Owner by day.
At night, when I take off my glasses and rip open my shirt, I become... well, mostly I put my glasses back on, and I become an evening indie: tired, but with tons of ideas.
How it started
It all began with my daughter, who is hard of hearing. To help her catch up on language, I wanted to build her a very simple app: a picture, the matching word spoken out loud, and again.
Building an app, even a simple one, is anything but simple when you are not a mobile developer. I got stuck on everything: the tools, the vocabulary, the learning curve.
Apart from Python I knew nothing, and there was no AI back then.
If it was that hard for me, it was hard for plenty of others: parents, teachers, people with an idea and no technical way to make it real.
I decided I had to build a framework as simple as a box of Lego.
A first attempt, then a long silence
I built a first version of my own tools. In Python, for Android. I had fun with it: an app to track my bank account, one to know the temperature in the living room, one to sort my mail automatically...
Then AI turned everything upside down: people could build an app on their own, and my tools lost their point.
The project could have ended right there.
Picking it back up
What restarted it, without meaning to, was a favour for someone close to me: a tool was missing and nobody sold it. That excuse let me rewrite everything from scratch, this time with the right tools.
I am still someone learning as he goes, and it shows in my work. That is on purpose: I am not building an academic object, I am solving my own problems. And out of every solved problem comes a new Lego brick in my toolbox.
What Grisloup is today
A one-person company, in France, that turns its ideas into apps. Few projects at a time, on soft paws.
The original idea has not moved: that someone with a good idea and few technical skills should still be able to build something that works.
Bottom line: lost in my own schemes, I never did build the app for my daughter. I am a bad father.