One developer, one hook, one app.

About Me

I've been building mobile apps for a long time. My first apps were some of the first on the App Store, which has changed shape many times since. I make native iOS and Android apps for a living, as well as websites and backend servers, and HookPlan is the project that I felt like I had to make for myself, as I wasn't completely satisfied with alternatives. Especially the pricing models.

I've been crocheting for a number of years now and by no means an expert. I'm still very much a beginner but I'm learning new things and new techniques all the time from this amazing community that I want to now give back to.

Why HookPlan exists

When I started crocheting, I was always losing my place, marking every stitch with a stitch marker, and still somehow losing my spot (was that the 8th stitch or the 25th?!). I got better but then I'd lose which row instruction I'd be on, making 8 single stitch, decreases, repeating 4 times, before I realized I was a step ahead (I can be a bit scatter-brained and enjoy crocheting while doing other things). So I am making an app to help me better focus but not be distracting. I hope it helps you too but would also love to hear how I can improve it for you, which will teach me new techniques with how you want to use the app. I've tried to make it as flexible and customizable as I can to fit people's needs but can't always predict how people want to use it. Because while I've created and messed up enough projects myself to know a few things, I'm always looking to improve this relatively new craft of mine in any way that I can.

While there are some great alternatives out there already, I wanted something a bit different and as a mobile application developer, I wanted to make something that I could continuously work on and enjoy making, just like crocheting allows me to do (when I need detach from screens).

It's a one-time purchase. No ads. No subscription nagging you every time you open it. If you buy it now and I add features in six months, you get those too, at no extra cost. I started developing apps before subscriptions became a thing, and I honestly don't like how that's turned out (I'm a user too!). Sure, it helps motivate me to continue improving the app, but stop paying in 6 months and you lose all the features you've come to enjoy? I wouldn't want that, and I'm positive you don't either. Spend that subscription money on your next skein instead and show me what you've made using my app. That part matters to me. OK, stepping down from my soapbox. Thanks for reading this far.

A few things about me

• I live in Boise, ID, as a full time mobile application developer.
• I came to crochet by seeing a book of amigurumi that I wanted to make, thinking it'd be easy to learn how to tie yarn up to make these adorable creatures. Plenty of YouTube videos, other books, diagrams later, I still didn't get it. Then one day, it just clicked and I was off making things.
• These days I'm usually working on remodeling my house by myself, spending time with my kids, or making something I'll be proud of.

Why it's just me

I think small software made by one person who actually uses it tends to be better than big software made by a hundred people who don't. HookPlan won't ever be the biggest craft app in the store, and that's the point. I'd rather know every corner of it, read every email that comes in, and answer it myself.

If something feels off in the app, or you have an idea you'd love to see, please write. I can't promise to build every suggestion, but I read all of them, and the next version of HookPlan is shaped, in part, by the people on the other end of those emails.