Hi, I'm
René Fischer
Geek, father of two near Munich. Product guy with a thing for food, mountains, photography, and Tanganyika cichlids.
01 / About
I build stuff and hike.
I grew up in the last years of the GDR in Gotha, a ridiculously beautiful town in Thuringia, and now live with my family near Munich. I am a father of two teenagers, still a bit too online, and probably easier to be around after a hike or a good meal.
For more than 26 years, I’ve been building software products, services, and the teams behind them. Today I lead Product at DocuWare. Before that, I worked in different roles across international B2B software companies, including Sage and Nemetschek.
Outside work, I build apps and other things, keep Tanganyika cichlids, cook, travel when I can, take photos mostly with my phone, watch movies, write things on the internet, and disappear into the mountains whenever time and weather line up.
02 / Latest
Latest from here and elsewhere.
My recent articles, short notes, and videos.
Blog articles
All articlesShort notes
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Ich hab mir gerade nach dem Duschen den Rücken abgetrocknet und hab dabei das Handtuch zerstört 😳 Ich glaube mein Kraftsport zeigt so langsam Wirkung 💪
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Wenn alles klappt, läuft gerade der finale Infrastruktur-Bake für Above. Und dann, ja dann, wenn endlich wirklich alles so funktioniert wie ich mir das vorstelle, lüfte ich auch den Vorhang was genau Above ist.
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Ich habe gerade tatsächlich die ersten freien Minuten des Tages, der ansonsten mit back-to-back Meetings überladen ist und weiß gerade nicht, ob ich auf Toilette gehen oder einen Kaffee holen soll.
03 / Photos
Pictures that made it into blog posts.
A small visual trail of places, food, hikes, everyday finds, and whatever else I pointed my phone at and later wrote about.
04 / Projects
Products and side projects.
Things I build because I want them to exist.
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Above
This is my current side project, the one happily consuming most of my evenings. Stay tuned for its release in July 2026.
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Flat
A feed reader for iOS and macOS that brings RSS, podcasts, YouTube, and social sources into one unified timeline. Read why I built Flat.
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GoToSocial Plus
An independent GoToSocial fork with improvements for split-domain accounts, link previews, Bluesky crossposting, and more. Read the details.
More stuff I maintain
- I’ve also built several mostly free apps for Apple devices, including Boost, a supplement and nutrition tracker, and Moment, a radically simple mood logger.
- The complete, zero-cost publishing setup behind this website and blog is available on GitHub. I also wrote about how it works.
- I still maintain a few Bear Blog plugins, including my Markdown Power Editor, although I no longer use Bear Blog myself.
05 / Connect
Say hi or follow along.
Email is best for direct contact. The rest is where the public parts of my life show up.
That's all there is, there isn't any more.