garap.dev
ga·rap · from rough to real

MAKE IT DONE.
MAKE IT BETTER.

Little tools, half-finished ideas, and the occasional one that turned out useful enough to keep running. Some stayed hobbies. Some went to production for people who paid me. Same hands either way.

Have a look around I also take on client work →
Currently
Looking for the next small thing to build — useful enough to matter, weird enough to keep me curious.
Jakarta · GMT+7 · open to good ideas

The drawer

all shipped, none finished
Rangkai project screenshot
Rangkai 2026
A freeform digital photo-book for arranging, publishing, and sharing the moments that matter.
Next.js · React · Go · PostgreSQL
Deployment Scaler project screenshot
Deployment Scaler 2024
A Kubernetes dashboard for switching idle dev and staging deployments off with one click.
Go · Kubernetes · Docker
Sketchboard project screenshot
Sketchboard 2026
A native macOS vector whiteboard for rough ideas, diagrams, and polished exports.
Swift · SwiftUI · AppKit

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The paid half

Sometimes people ask me to build one of these for them.

That's fine by me. Same hands, a proper invoice, no agency in between.

Build something new
A scoped first version, in production, with real users on it. Usually about six weeks.
~6 weeks
Fix something old
You inherited a codebase and its problems. I read it, stabilise it, and write down what I found.
2–4 weeks
Stick around
A few days a month on your product — features, infra, or being the person who knows why it broke.
monthly
Ballpark: projects start around $12k, retainers around $4k a month. Happy to talk it through before either of us guesses.

Who's typing

5+ years as a software engineer, building both products and the infrastructure behind them. I care about making things reliable, understandable, and useful — from the first idea to the final detail.

Have work that matters? You can trust me to take ownership, see it through, and leave it better than I found it.

Say hello

Got a project in mind, a half-formed idea, or a stubborn problem to untangle? Tell me about it — let’s make it real.

halo@garap.dev
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