Hey, I’m Jon.

I’ve been building on the web for a long time, mostly product work where design and code overlap.

Projects

I build and ship projects across SaaS, content, and tooling.

• https://activebuilders.dev
  A private community for people who ship. If you're shipping work (or trying to), come hang out.

• https://dailytips.dev
  A 5-minute daily read on decisions, logic, distribution, and the thinking that turns code into products.

• https://preflight.sh
  A CLI that catches common misconfigurations and deployment issues before they go live.

• https://emailgrowthguide.com
  The playbook for launching, growing, and monetizing your email newsletter.

• https://hprfcl.com
  Easily create Lightroom and Photoshop ACR presets and LUTs from natural language and reference images.

• https://autochangelog.com
  Automatically generates clean, public changelogs from pull requests, code diffs, and commits.

• https://dailyphototips.com
  Short, practical, and actionable photography tips delivered to your inbox daily.

• https://thedailypreset.com
  One Lightroom preset delivered every weekday, built for real photos and real workflows.

• https://distributionkit.com
  Launch smarter. 145+ platforms and directories to get your product in front of the right people.

• https://www.bestaithings.com
  Best AI things for everything. Discover and compare the most powerful AI tools to enhance your workflow.

Previously, I worked on monetization, infrastructure, and developer-facing tools at https://buysellads.com/, https://fullres.com, and https://ready.dev/ for 15 years.

How I build

I don’t get attached to stacks, but I do care about shipping, maintainability, and not creating problems for future me.

I often work with Rails, Hotwire, Stimulus, Tailwind, Alpine, Craft CMS, React, Vite, and Next.js, plus whatever else fits the project.

The tech is a tool, the product is the point.

Writing

I believe strongly in email and building audiences you can actually reach.

I write about building products, logic, UX, distribution, and long-term thinking at: https://joncphillips.com

I’m also on socials:

• https://x.com/joncphillips
• https://www.threads.com/@jon.c.phillips
• https://www.instagram.com/jon.c.phillips