A small studio launches a small catalog. Here is why we made it.
For the last six months, four of us have been quietly making things: three ebooks, seven CLI tools, a handful of templates. Today we put them on a website and called it Vellumshore.
This is the post that introduces it.
What's actually here. Twenty-four products, all digital, all delivered the moment you check out. Four ebooks on craft and code: Calm Code, Field Notes Volume 1, The Honest Inbox, First Sale. Seven small command-line tools we built because we wanted them ourselves: Pace, Focus, Slip, Streak, Tomes, mds, jot. Nine templates: pricing pages, landing pages, resume templates, invoice templates, a 404 collection, a brand kit workbook.
You can read the first chapter of every ebook for free, no email gate. We would rather you spend $0 than spend $7 on something that wasn't for you.
Why we made it. Every product on the site started the same way: someone on our team said I wish this existed and built it for themselves. Then we used it. Then we used it for six months. Then, if it still worked, we wrote it up.
That's the whole methodology. We make things we use. If we stop using them, we don't sell them.
The result is a small, opinionated catalog. We are not trying to be the SaaS that solves your workflow. We are trying to be the small studio that makes the tool you find on a Wednesday afternoon and use for the next decade.
What's free, what's paid. Free: the first chapter of every ebook, the sample of every tool's documentation, the /pages/free page. Paid: everything else. Prices range from $7 to $24 per item, with bundles at $26 to $89. Every paid product includes lifetime updates and a 14-day refund if it isn't right.
The promise. We won't email you weekly. We won't run a quarterly redesign. We won't gate the sample chapter behind a popup.
What we will do: ship occasional updates, respond to support emails within a few days, and write the occasional essay here on the journal.
If that sounds like the kind of place you'd want to buy from, we'd love to have you.
The Vellumshore team