Let me tell you how we got here. Not the polished version — the real one.

We were a bunch of friends with a soft spot for good tools — the smell of a new notebook, the click of a tidy commit. We'd each spent years in different corners of tech, and at some point we realized the people we most wanted to build with were already in the room. So we rented two desks, bought one very loud espresso machine, and started shipping.