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The Handmade community has been around for a decade now, well predating LLMs. Our values derive from Handmade Hero, which promoted a love for the craft of programming and an engineering mindset informed by deep understanding of how the computer and the platform actually work. The hallmark of the Handmade mindset is enthusiastically "reinventing the wheel", because building software from scratch, in the context of a specific problem, with a deep understanding of how computers work, can produce shockingly high-quality software.

Many people in or around the community have made great software over the years (4coder, File Pilot, RemedyBG, the RAD Debugger, Essence OS, Odin, raylib, kb_text_shape.h, Spall, etc.) but because it's a community of programmers, expertise in many "soft skills" is often lacking. This often prevents Handmade software from being a bigger success and sustaining its own development. Our goal is to fill in a lot of those gaps and help this amazing software achieve widespread success and redefine expectations for software quality across the industry.

We'll have a lot more details about what we do with the money once we actually start taking people's money.