Blah blah blah co-founder blah blah blah. While I don’t discount the fact that there are many many lovely pairs or co-founders who’ve succeeded (and also failed), too many people miss the fact that amazing things can and have been done by one person.

For a hardware hacker, things used to be bit more difficult. Heck, now even I, with or without my worthless paper of a degree, can get started and start hacking physical things. Just buy a couple of things (from the tools necessary to an entire build kit), crack open or brew your favorite beverage, and start trying things. Don’t forget about 3D printing: Just copy and paste ALL THE THINGS.

But for a software hacker, it’s always been very very easy to get started. Well, it’s been easy ever since cool people who came before me decided to open up their source code and share to the world their findings.

I am a software hacker. An army of one, powered by the millions of hackers who have come before me, powering the billions of hackers to come.