Why I built this
Hi. I'm Jen. I built Maryn because I needed Maryn —
and I knew how to build it right.
Before Bits & Pieces Crafter, I spent years in enterprise software — at a major financial institution and a software company — shipping products used by thousands of people. I know what good product looks like. I know what bad product looks like, too.
Later, I started a sticker business. I have ADHD and four Cricut machines in my office. By 2025 I'd hit 8,300+ sales and 1,500+ five-star reviews — and I was still tracking my income in spreadsheets and running a real business on grit alone.
I also had 47 sticky notes, 8 browser tabs, three "systems" that didn't talk to each other, and a Notion template I'd half-filled-out and given up on.
Here's what I realized: this wasn't a discipline problem. It was a product design problem — the kind I used to solve for a living.
Most "business tools" sold to solopreneurs are enterprise software with the branding changed. Built for teams of 50 with $40M in funding, then trimmed down and sold to solo women running shops from their dining rooms for $29 a month.
I didn't need another enterprise trim-down. I needed one place. A private one — because my income numbers don't belong on someone else's server. A complete one — because context-switching was eating my day. A bought-once one — because I was done renting my own business tools.
When I couldn't find it, I built it myself. Properly. With the product instincts I'd spent years developing before the stickers. Maryn is everything I was paying $90 a month for — folded into one window, stored on my computer, mine forever.
It's built for the way creative brains actually work: ADHD-friendly, one-day-at-a-time focus, confetti when you log a win, mood tracking, and a timer to keep you on task. Because I built it for mine first.