Dev Updates & Notes from the Studio
The Keely Blog
Progress notes, design decisions, and the occasional detour — because Keely loved her detours!
Behind the Scenes
Vibe Coding the Apocalypse
I am fully aware of my limitations, and creating the Keely App was far beyond them. Without the funds to hire coders and engineers to make my vision come to life, I was stuck.
June 24, 2026
Vibe Coding the Apocalypse
Behind the Scenes
Meet Keely-Boo!
It is something I care about, almost as much as I cared about Keely. She was a great dog, and I hope this will be a great app in her honor.
June 17, 2026
Meet Keely-Boo!
Updates
It lives!
It’s really exciting to see this come together, and as I write this, I don’t even have a website or blog to share the news on yet! (I assume if you are reading this then I got my act together at some point.)
June 8, 2026
It lives!
Behind the Scenes
The Rules
Sitting down to get clarity on what you are doing and why means the difference between success and failure. I wanted Keely App to be long term solution for authors, not a convenient one-off project only useful to me.
June 3, 2026
The Rules
Behind the Scenes
From Dream to Build
The question, of course, is why bother? I could just set up in an existing service and be done with it. But as I mentioned in the last post, I would be locking myself into their ecosystem… and their subscription model.
May 21, 2026
From Dream to Build
Behind the Scenes
Nothing Else Worked
Online serialization, unlike the venerable trade of book publishing, has not been around long comparatively. Sure, serialization is one of the oldest distribution models in existence, but online? Definitely a brand new world.
May 7, 2026
Nothing Else Worked
Behind the Scenes
The Dream
But to understand the Mariana Trench depths of my frustration, you have to know this about me (you probably do): I’m a fangirl.
April 30, 2026
The Dream
Take Keely for a Walk!
See what serialized fiction can feel like
Open the live demo, or grab the template and make it yours!