It’s been a while, hasn’t it? Well, not much has changed. Resolution remains stable, functional, and operated by a non-business that loses an extremely small amount of money every month. For anyone poking at Resolution in 2026, go nuts! Everything still works, and will continue to work unless… I dunno, something important breaks? The internet ends? At any rate, Stripe handles payments and they’re not going anywhere either (I don’t have or want your credit card information), so this thing pretty much runs itself at this point.
That being said, as I hunker down for a long, unprofitable future of running this thing for no reason other than ego, pride, and a stubborn sense that I’m still right and everyone else is still wrong, I’ve taken a few cost-reduction maneuvers.
All my awesome walkthroughs have been deactivated. This is a huge bummer because they’re all really good and hilarious (says me!), and run by a great service called Product Fruits. Unfortunately, it was costing me $100 a month which is, by far, the most expensive part of Resolution (lol). So now you’ll see the still very functional Model Index where you used to see the Examples page.
I canceled Sentry. Sentry is enormous and doesn’t need my endorsement, but it worked really well, especially when we were mucking with things. Not so much mucking anymore, and I save thirty bucks a month.
That’s basically it! All I really do now is pay Fly.io like, 20 bucks a month and a little bit for web hosting. We’re good. Until this thing becomes too popular for basic infrastructure, everything should be solid for your model-making needs. And so far, obscurity is something Resolution has been able to count on!
Is there a future, here?
There’s always a future, friends! Seriously, though, I am a non-developer trying to build software, which means I need a lot of money or to become way, way smarter than I am. If I’m being honest, neither of those seem even remotely likely anytime soon. I think about Resolution all the time — and not fantasies of it being popular or anything, but actual use cases, improvements, etc. — but some ideas just have very high bars for minimum viable product and I clearly don’t have the resources/skills/wherewithal to brute force that.
Software is in a weird place anyways, as not just the investment zeitgeist but even user culture has really moved away from tinkering and exploring and into basically barking demands at various devices and expecting an answer, which is exactly the opposite of not only how Resolution works, but how it’s supposed to work even it’s sexiest, theoretically VC-fueled form. So as a technology innovator, I may just be one of those guys my Dad always referred to as “rubber roads, cement tires”.
I am very interested in open-sourcing Resolution. Like, very interested. But I don’t really know how to do that right, so it’s not going to happen on its own. If anyone is good at that / aware of the potential pitfalls, please reach out. Maybe there’s a future here after all, even if it doesn’t involve me looking down disdainfully at everyone from a private jet with my face on the tail.
