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/about/: strip stale pricing, counts, and retired commitments
Three things that no longer match the post-Apr 13 desktop-app product: 1. Pricing references ('$7.99/mo' in two places). Pricing now lives on /desktop/ ($299 / $49/mo / $129/mo); repeating it or an outdated variant on /about/ is just drift waiting to happen. Reworded to preserve the sentence structure: 'Because $7.99/mo is less than what most of these tools charge individually, and you get to keep everything when you leave.' becomes: 'Because you should keep what you pay for.' And the closing sentence: 'I'm trying to earn your $7.99 every month by building tools that are worth using.' becomes: 'I'm trying to earn what you pay by building tools that are worth using.' 2. Tool/bundle counts in the stats block ('150+ tools', '200 bundles'). The tool-catalog shape isn't the product story anymore — it's the desktop app. Stats block trimmed to the two entries that still carry real meaning: 0 cloud dependencies 1 developer The /about/ page doesn't need to be a spec sheet. 3. The 4-year auto-open-source commitment: 'After four years, each tool becomes fully open source. Anyone in the world can build on it, change it, or keep it running.' Removed entirely. This commitment only appeared on /about/ — not on the homepage, not in /constitution/, not on /desktop/. Keeping it here alone was a liability: either a broken promise waiting to happen, or a commitment that should have been codified elsewhere but wasn't. The surrounding sentences about public code and audit-ability are preserved, those are still true. Also: - Meta description updated (was '150+ self-hosted tools, $7.99/mo bundles, 14-day free trial' — three stale facts stacked in one SEO-visible line). - Footer: /pricing/ links → /desktop/ (the former now 301s to the latter). 'Price Lock' link removed; /desktop/ doesn't have that section so the link pointed to a concept the destination no longer discusses. - 'Instead of selling you 150 tools you'll never use' → 'Instead of selling you a bunch of tools you'll never use'. Same structural point, no stale number to keep in sync.
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<title>About — Stockyard</title>
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<meta content="Stockyard is built by one person. 150+ self-hosted tools, $7.99/mo bundles, 14-day free trial. Here's why." name="description"/>
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<meta content="Stockyard is built by one person. Software for small businesses that runs on your computer. Here's why." name="description"/>
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<meta content="One developer. 150+ tools. Zero cloud dependencies. Here's the story." property="og:description"/>
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<meta content="One developer. Software for small businesses that runs on your computer. Here's the story." property="og:description"/>
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<p>To back it up, copy a folder. To move to a new computer, move that folder. If Stockyard disappears tomorrow, your data is still in a standard format that any spreadsheet program or database tool can open. Nothing locked away, nothing held hostage.</p>
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<div class="stats">
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<div class="stat"><span class="num">150+</span><span class="lbl">tools</span></div>
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<div class="stat"><span class="num">200</span><span class="lbl">bundles</span></div>
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<div class="stat"><span class="num">0</span><span class="lbl">cloud dependencies</span></div>
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<div class="stat"><span class="num">1</span><span class="lbl">developer</span></div>
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<p><strong>Why bundles?</strong> Because a therapist doesn't need the same tools as a minecraft server admin. Instead of selling you 150 tools you'll never use, I put together bundles for specific communities. Therapists get client records, invoicing, session notes, intake forms, and booking. A tattoo shop gets those plus waivers and a portfolio. A pickleball club gets reservations, tournament brackets, and check-ins.</p>
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<p><strong>Why self-hosted?</strong> Because your client list and your financial records shouldn't live on a startup's server that might get acquired, hacked, or shut down. Because you should be able to run your tools without an internet connection. Because $7.99/mo is less than what most of these tools charge individually, and you get to keep everything when you leave.</p>
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<p><strong>Why bundles?</strong> Because a therapist doesn't need the same tools as a minecraft server admin. Instead of selling you a bunch of tools you'll never use, I put together bundles for specific communities. Therapists get client records, invoicing, session notes, intake forms, and booking. A tattoo shop gets those plus waivers and a portfolio. A pickleball club gets reservations, tournament brackets, and check-ins.</p>
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<p><strong>Why self-hosted?</strong> Because your client list and your financial records shouldn't live on a startup's server that might get acquired, hacked, or shut down. Because you should be able to run your tools without an internet connection. Because you should keep what you pay for.</p>
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<p><strong>Why one person?</strong> Because small teams ship faster, charge less, and don't have investors pushing them to add enterprise features nobody asked for. I answer emails. I fix bugs. I don't have a sales team.</p>
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<p>The code is public. You can read it, run it yourself, and audit what it does with your data. After four years, each tool becomes fully open source. Anyone in the world can build on it, change it, or keep it running. I'm not trying to lock you in. I'm trying to earn your $7.99 every month by building tools that are worth using.</p>
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<p>The code is public. You can read it, run it yourself, and audit what it does with your data. I'm not trying to lock you in. I'm trying to earn what you pay by building tools that are worth using.</p>
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<p>If you have questions, ideas, complaints, or just want to say hey: <a href="mailto:hello@stockyard.dev">hello@stockyard.dev</a></p>
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<p class="sig">Michael<br/><span style="font-family:var(--font-mono);font-size:.7rem;color:var(--cream-muted);font-style:normal">Founder, Stockyard</span></p>
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<p class="sig">Stockyard. Your tools, your data, your hardware.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.5rem"><a href="/for/">Bundles</a> · <a href="/pricing/">Pricing</a> · <a href="/about/">About</a> · <a href="https://github.com/stockyard-dev/Stockyard">GitHub</a></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.5rem;font-size:0.7rem"><a href="/constitution/">The Constitution</a> · <a href="/veterans/">For Veterans</a> · <a href="/pricing/">Price Lock</a></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.5rem"><a href="/for/">Bundles</a> · <a href="/desktop/">Pricing</a> · <a href="/about/">About</a> · <a href="https://github.com/stockyard-dev/Stockyard">GitHub</a></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.5rem;font-size:0.7rem"><a href="/constitution/">The Constitution</a> · <a href="/veterans/">For Veterans</a></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.3rem;font-size:0.65rem;color:var(--cream-muted)">Questions? hello@stockyard.dev</p>
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<meta content="Stockyard is built by one person. 150+ self-hosted tools, $7.99/mo bundles, 14-day free trial. Here's why." name="description"/>
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<p>To back it up, copy a folder. To move to a new computer, move that folder. If Stockyard disappears tomorrow, your data is still in a standard format that any spreadsheet program or database tool can open. Nothing locked away, nothing held hostage.</p>
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<p><strong>Why bundles?</strong> Because a therapist doesn't need the same tools as a minecraft server admin. Instead of selling you 150 tools you'll never use, I put together bundles for specific communities. Therapists get client records, invoicing, session notes, intake forms, and booking. A tattoo shop gets those plus waivers and a portfolio. A pickleball club gets reservations, tournament brackets, and check-ins.</p>
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<p><strong>Why self-hosted?</strong> Because your client list and your financial records shouldn't live on a startup's server that might get acquired, hacked, or shut down. Because you should be able to run your tools without an internet connection. Because $7.99/mo is less than what most of these tools charge individually, and you get to keep everything when you leave.</p>
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<p><strong>Why bundles?</strong> Because a therapist doesn't need the same tools as a minecraft server admin. Instead of selling you a bunch of tools you'll never use, I put together bundles for specific communities. Therapists get client records, invoicing, session notes, intake forms, and booking. A tattoo shop gets those plus waivers and a portfolio. A pickleball club gets reservations, tournament brackets, and check-ins.</p>
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<p><strong>Why self-hosted?</strong> Because your client list and your financial records shouldn't live on a startup's server that might get acquired, hacked, or shut down. Because you should be able to run your tools without an internet connection. Because you should keep what you pay for.</p>
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<p><strong>Why one person?</strong> Because small teams ship faster, charge less, and don't have investors pushing them to add enterprise features nobody asked for. I answer emails. I fix bugs. I don't have a sales team.</p>
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<p>The code is public. You can read it, run it yourself, and audit what it does with your data. After four years, each tool becomes fully open source. Anyone in the world can build on it, change it, or keep it running. I'm not trying to lock you in. I'm trying to earn your $7.99 every month by building tools that are worth using.</p>
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<p>The code is public. You can read it, run it yourself, and audit what it does with your data. I'm not trying to lock you in. I'm trying to earn what you pay by building tools that are worth using.</p>
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<p>If you have questions, ideas, complaints, or just want to say hey: <a href="mailto:hello@stockyard.dev">hello@stockyard.dev</a></p>
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<p class="sig">Michael<br/><span style="font-family:var(--font-mono);font-size:.7rem;color:var(--cream-muted);font-style:normal">Founder, Stockyard</span></p>
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<footer>
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<p class="sig">Stockyard. Your tools, your data, your hardware.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.5rem"><a href="/for/">Bundles</a> · <a href="/pricing/">Pricing</a> · <a href="/about/">About</a> · <a href="https://github.com/stockyard-dev/Stockyard">GitHub</a></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.5rem;font-size:0.7rem"><a href="/constitution/">The Constitution</a> · <a href="/veterans/">For Veterans</a> · <a href="/pricing/">Price Lock</a></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.5rem"><a href="/for/">Bundles</a> · <a href="/desktop/">Pricing</a> · <a href="/about/">About</a> · <a href="https://github.com/stockyard-dev/Stockyard">GitHub</a></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.5rem;font-size:0.7rem"><a href="/constitution/">The Constitution</a> · <a href="/veterans/">For Veterans</a></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.3rem;font-size:0.65rem;color:var(--cream-muted)">Questions? hello@stockyard.dev</p>
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