12 titles shipped  ·  est. april 2026

Digital things, made with care.

An indie press for ebooks, SaaS, and scripts.

Browse the catalogue Who we are
/ what this place is

We make digital things — and sell them the way we'd want to buy them.

skipdfluff is an independent press. We write the books, code the tools, and design the pages ourselves. What you find on the shelf was made by someone whose name we know, shipped with a changelog, and priced once — not forever.

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We write.

Long-form digital books on craft, attention, and independent work. Each title is edited like a real book — not a 47-chapter "ultimate guide."

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We build.

Production-grade SaaS templates, CLIs, and self-hosted scripts. One-time pricing, lifetime re-downloads, readable changelogs.

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We design.

Every page on this site, every book cover, every product screen — drawn and built by hand. No template farms, no purple gradients.

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We publish.

Essays and build notes on the blog, twice a month. The thinking that goes into the work, left in the open.

ebooks

Long-form writing that earns its length.

skipdfluff press
Divoraly
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saas & scripts

Thinking tools, not funnels.

~/skipdfluff · mise --init • live
// a small CLI for tidy repositories
$ mise init --project skipdfluff
   node 22.3.0, pnpm 10.2.0
   48 deps resolved in 1.2s
   ready
06 products · from $19 USD See the catalogue
/ how this shelf differs

Four rules, applied to every listing.

Full manifesto
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Versioned.

Every product ships with a semver tag and a changelog. You know when we broke something and how we fixed it.

semver + release notes →
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Documented.

Every page is short enough to read in one sitting. Every readme answers questions the product raises.

no sales-pages masquerading as docs →
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One-time pricing.

Buy it, download it, keep it. No seat licensing. No expiring activation keys. No annual "increase."

free re-downloads, forever →
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Self-hosted.

Where it makes sense, our SaaS runs on your own box. A Docker compose file and a $6 VPS. No subscription trap.

own your data →
/ from the blog

Recent entries.

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№ 003
essay7 minapr 14

On the ten-thousand-word sales page — and why we refused to write one.

A note on respect: when a product page runs longer than the product itself, the product is the page.

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№ 002
craft5 minapr 02

Designing a book cover when the book is a web page.

Three-dimensional mockups, editorial imprint marks, and the problem with AI-generated cover art.

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№ 001
position3 minmar 19

A small press, on purpose.

Why skipdfluff will stay small, why that isn't a retreat, and what the A24 model actually means here.

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/ the team

A small group of builders, developers, designers, and writers — making the web a little better, one shipped thing at a time.

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