Founder
Founder & Principal, The Fractary
Founded by Josh McWilliam, who builds with the same stack the studio publishes.
joshmcwilliam.com →Ventures
Bootstrapped and built in the studio, on the Fractary stack. Some are live, some are in beta or preview, and the rest are in development.
See all 12 ventures →Built for founders working alone, by a studio that runs its own ventures the same way.
The Stockyard is an index of tools from public GitHub lists and official sources. We say where each listing came from and exactly what "Verified" does and doesn't mean.
How we build this index →Nothing in the directory is sponsored and no link earns us a commission. The studio's business is building ventures and publishing open-source tools, not selling placement.
Everything here is built for the entrepreneur of one: tools you can run yourself, a stack you can own, and a community forming for founders who build alone.
Blog
Notes from a founder building a dozen ventures alone, with agents.
Earned Autonomy · Part 1
9 min read
Agents got good at producing work. Deciding it's done is the hard part now. What the field learned about loops, judges, and evals, and how I'm changing Faber.
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Earned Autonomy · Part 2
10 min read
Agents grade their own work generously. Why a separate judge with evidence and tools beats self-review, what it should see, and what it must never be told.
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Earned Autonomy · Part 3
9 min read
An agent stops when the work looks done. A four-layer definition of done, written before the build and enforced by code, is how looks done becomes is done.
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Find your tools in the Stockyard. Build on the stack. When you've shipped something real, ask for a seat in The Foundry.