Ricky

Indie hacker · Hong Kong · Marlin Works (one-person company)

I'm Ricky. I run Marlin Works, a one-person software company. I build tools for people who want to take back control of their information diet — starting with Readaria, an open-source RSS reader that turns your subscriptions into AI podcasts.

What I'm building

• Readaria — open-source, self-hostable RSS reader with text-to-speech and AI-generated podcast briefings. Eleven months of solo work, built in the open.
• Proofline — early exploration. The AI era has unlimited content and limited trust. I'm exploring what a trusted-judgment layer could look like: provenance, evidence chains, and calibratable forecasts instead of engagement-optimized feeds.

How I work

I write about building in public — the engineering, the decisions, and the honest postmortems. Mostly in English on dev.to; longer personal essays in Chinese live here.

Elsewhere

• GitHub — Blacksheeppy123
• dev.to — blacksheeppy123
• Product — readaria.com · demo at demo.readaria.com