skipdfluff was started by a group of friends — engineers, designers, and writers — who kept sending each other the same complaint: the internet is full of digital products that feel like nobody actually made them. Churned-out courses, Notion templates sold as "systems," SaaS landing pages that all look like fan art of the same three apps.
We thought we could do better. So we started shipping, quietly, in public. The first book (Divoraly) was a personal one. The first script (Mise) came out of our own repos. The catalogue grew as the team did.
That sentence is easy to say and harder to mean. We mean it in a small way: every product we ship should leave the person who bought it slightly better off. A book that actually helped. A tool that actually saved an afternoon. A website that didn't waste their time or their attention.
We can't fix the internet. But we can refuse to add noise to it. That's the whole brief, honestly.
writer · editor
Former longform editor. Writes books. Argues about sentences. Author of Divoraly.
writer · essayist
Writes slowly, about attention. Author of The Long Quiet. Occasionally edits the blog.
staff engineer
Builds the SaaS products. Go, Rust, and a suspicious amount of Bash. Author of Rough Drafts.
product · strategy
Runs the press side. Curatorial decisions, pricing, partnerships. Author of The Maker's Dilemma.
design · typography
Designs the books, the site, the covers. Has strong opinions about kerning. Author of Small Machines.
writer · frontend
Moves between code and prose. Builds things, writes about the building. Author of Thin Volume.
Right now, we make the work ourselves; skipdfluff is a publisher with a storefront attached. Over time we'll open to outside creators whose work clears the same bar. Not a marketplace — a roster.
We don't carry coming-soons, pre-sales, or "early access" for things that aren't finished. If it's on the shelf, it's a book. If it's in the catalogue, it's a product you can use today.
If you have a digital product that might belong on this shelf, send a short note — not a pitch deck — via the contact page. Include the thing. Include the price you'd charge. Include two sentences about why it exists. That's the submission.
We answer every message. We're usually slow about it, on purpose.
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