Software ventures

Fang builds and operates software companies.

We start companies around problems people are already working around, and run them ourselves. Intriq is relationship memory for the web and iPhone. Invoice Koi is invoicing for the trades, and it works with no signal and no account.

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01Mission

Building solutions grounded by real world problems and solving them through innovation and technology.

02Values
i

To build businesses that can effectively allocate sufficient and right resources.

Money, attention and engineering time go where the problem actually is. Nothing is spent to look busy.

ii

Hiring for alignment in personal interests.

The work should serve what someone already wants for themselves. Alignment outlasts persuasion.

iii

Hiring competent individuals who are willing and motivated to succeed.

Competence is the entry requirement. Motivation is what we hire for after that.

03Ventures
Intriq
Relationship memory. Keep the context about people that contact apps were never built to hold.
Web & iPhone
Invoice Koi
Invoices, estimates and receipts for the trades. Written on the phone, with no signal and no account.
iPhone & iPad
04How we build
  1. 01

    Start from a problem someone already has

    Not a market we would like to be in. A specific job that is currently done badly.

  2. 02

    Ship where the work happens

    The phone in a van, the browser at a desk. The product goes to the user rather than the reverse.

  3. 03

    Claim only what the code does

    Every claim on a Fang product page is checked against the product before it goes up.

  4. 04

    Keep the team small and aligned

    Fewer people, higher trust, faster decisions. Resources follow the same rule as headcount.

05What we've shipped

Intriq

Platforms
iPhone app and a web app at app.intriq.app
Capture
Voice notes to about ninety seconds, transcribed and matched to the people mentioned
Recall
Plain-English search across your network, and a briefing before the next conversation
Releases
Shipping since 1.2; currently 2.3

Invoice Koi

Platforms
iPhone and iPad on iOS 16.4 or later
Free plan
A hundred invoices a year, with no card and no account
In the app
Nine templates, a price book, receipt scanning, time tracking, a jobs calendar, recurring invoices and CSV, spreadsheet or PDF reports
Also
A free invoice generator on the web that needs nothing installed
06Contact

If you are building something adjacent, write to us.

Partnerships, distribution, and anything that would make Intriq or Invoice Koi more useful to the people already using them.

hello@fangv.xyz