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 articles
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.
Products I build because I want them to exist.
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Above
Stay tuned, for the 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.
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Small apps
Mostly free iOS and macOS tools for small everyday workflows and the occasional oddly specific problem.
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.