The Accidental Product That Might Be Our Biggest - Wempily

Wempily wasn't supposed to be a product.

It was supposed to be a solution to my problem. A tool I needed. Something to stop me from drowning in the chaos of managing 12 projects.

I built it for myself. I never imagined it would become something others needed too.

The Problem That Started It All

I was managing multiple language preservation projects simultaneously. Each project had its own repository, its own features, its own timeline. I was shipping work constantly, but I had no visibility into what I'd actually accomplished.

Every evening, I'd spend an hour updating project management tools. Creating tasks for work I'd already done. Writing descriptions of code I'd already committed. Marking things complete that were obviously complete.

It was backwards. And exhausting.

The Moment of Clarity

One night, staring at my Git commit history, it hit me: Everything I needed to track was already there.

Every commit told a story:

• •What I built
• •When I built it
• •Which project it was for
• •How much progress was made

I was recreating this information in another tool. Why?

So I built Wempily. Just for me. Just to solve my problem.

The Unexpected Discovery

As I used Wempily to manage my own work, something unexpected happened: I started working differently.

I stopped planning and started shipping. I stopped updating tools and started building. I stopped managing and started creating.

The tool I built to track my work was actually changing how I worked.

When Others Started Asking

People noticed. They'd see my dashboard showing 12 active projects, all tracked automatically. They'd ask: "How are you doing this?"

I'd explain Wempily. They'd ask: "Can I use it?"

At first, I said no. It was my tool. Built for my workflow. Not ready for others.

But the requests kept coming. And I realized: Maybe this wasn't just my problem.

The Realization

The more I thought about it, the more I saw that other developers faced the same challenge:

• •AI-assisted development moving faster than manual tracking
• •Multiple projects requiring constant context switching
• •Traditional tools that slow you down instead of speeding you up
• •The frustration of documenting work you've already done

Wempily wasn't just solving my problem. It was solving a universal one.

From Internal Tool to Product

So we're making Wempily available to others. Not because we planned it. Not because market research told us to. But because we built something we needed, and others need it too.

The best products come from real problems, not market gaps.

What This Means

Wempily might become our biggest product. Not because we set out to build it that way, but because it solves a real problem that many people face.

Sometimes the most valuable things you build are the ones you build for yourself.

The tool that started as a personal solution might become something much bigger.

And that's okay. Because it means we're solving real problems, not chasing market trends.

Ready to try the tool that started as a personal solution?

Try Wempily free at wempily.com