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Dark Rock Studios
@DarkRockStudiosTracked since May 2026
Free and Open Source app development.
Observed Aug 20, 2026 · staleModeled revenue
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Starting price
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5 membership tiers
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$0/moFreePublic prices and benefits only
$3/moSync SupporterYou get access to hammer.ink sync servers, and your data stays yours—not feeding some AI training model. Also covers approximately 2.7 cups of coffee per month, which is apparently the minimum viable fuel for debugging actual native desktop apps instead of Electron wrappers at 1 AM.
$5/moFOSS Enablerhammer.ink Server access + you're helping fund the continued development of Hammer and other projects I publish under permissive licensees. You're supporting software that respects your data ownership. Includes my wife's grudging acceptance of weekend coding sessions.
$10/moOpen Source EnthusiastAll the sync server goodness + you're significantly contributing to keeping multiple FOSS projects alive. At this tier, you're sponsoring both the crusade against surveillance capitalism and my wife's patience with late-night 'maybe I should refactor it this way' rants. Your data remains yours, the code remains readable.
$100/moQuestionable Life ChoicesSame sync server as everyone else, but you're now my primary argument for why indie FOSS development can work. This funds approximately 40 cups of coffee, several weekends of coding, and buys my wife's tolerance for one more 'I'm replacing the entire frontend framework' decision. I'll feel weird about this amount of support, but I'll channel that discomfort into aggressively good software. Your data stays yours. My sanity remains questionable.
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MembershipLast observed 2026-08-20. Not enough recent observation yet for a 30-day reading.
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May 202618 weeks trackedNow
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Dark Rock Studios does not yet have a measured paid-member count. 0 of 7 cohort creators are measured for this metric.Ranking data · includes stale rows| Rank | Creator and why included | Paid members | Gap vs Dark Rock Studios | Freshness |
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| Not ranked |  Dark Rock StudiosProfileWritingPaid members position in Recommended cohort | Not measured | Reference | Aug 20, 2026Stale |
| Not ranked |  Brian RussellWritingCategory, audience, pricing & cadence | Not measured | Not comparable | Aug 20, 2026 |
| Not ranked |  The Wheelchair DadWritingCategory, audience, pricing & cadence | Not measured | Not comparable | Aug 31, 2026 |
| Not ranked |  thevgmanWritingCategory, audience, pricing & cadence | Not measured | Not comparable | Aug 20, 2026 |
| Not ranked |  The Wayne BreezieVideoCategory, audience, pricing & cadence | Not measured | Not comparable | Aug 31, 2026 |
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What they publish34Posts total2 postsLast month0%Members-only
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Article Latest postPublicAnnouncing the first ever Hammer Writing ContestWith a Grand Prize of $50 to Bookshop.org to support independent book sellers and a lifetime subscription to hammer.ink! Use Hammer's abilit
August 8 0 likes 0 commentsHammer 3.3.0Trying a new update format, video change logs. This time highlighting the new Editorial Review feature. You can request someone to review yoVideoJune 14Public 0 0
May UpdateWhoa, may was a busy month! The big news was the release of Hammer 3.0. This brought a huge set of new features, as well as a complete overhArticleJune 5Public 0 0January UpdateJanuary didn't go as planned. I was excited to work on getting Hammer out there. In the first days of January I got Hammer 2.0 released. ThiArticleFebruary 2Public 0 0
April UpdateIt’s been a busy and sleepless last couple months. All open source work stopped after the birth of my child, and I’m only now starting to fiImageMay 1Public 0 0Project updatesI just finished an architecture cleanup of the SnapSafe Android app. This solved some navigational issues, and made some parts of the code mImageAug 24, 2025Public 1 2SnapSafe article published!Small update on SnapSafe: I wrote an article about how SnapSafe works to keep your photos safe from invasive searches, and it's been published! The Winter issue of 2600 now has our article about SnapSafe as the very first article of it issue! It should be available at most book stores. I've actually been going to Barns & Noble again, in person! Crazy stuff. Anyway. hopefully this will help spread the word and protect more people in these increasingly uncertain times.ImageJanuary 21Public 0 0Hammer 2.0This is a big day for Hammer! I had this idea about six years ago while living in a van full time. My internet connectivity was terrible, anArticleJanuary 11Public 0 0
December UpdateDecember was a busy month! I stayed focused on Hammer… mostly. Some users did report background battery drain in FastTrack, which really shoArticleJanuary 8Public 0 0
June UpdateJune was a huge push for stability and security on Hammer. 14 releases! Ironically that effort resulted in some of my least stable releasesArticleJuly 13Public 3 4
July UpdateJuly has been a great month! A ton of stabilization and polish, and many more Hammer users, let's get into it. I went into the month tryingArticleAugust 3Public 0 0
New App: C2PA VerifyC2PA is a new standard to help identify photos that have been been taken with a genuine physical camera, VS generated or edited by AI. C2PAImageJune 18Public 1 2Research actions
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