Useful. Fun. Always both. I build software at the intersection of human creativity and technology — tools that solve real problems and feel like a reward every time you open them.
Each one starts as a frustration I felt myself. Then I ask: what if fixing this was actually fun?
Your camera roll, cleaned by AI — wrapped in a pixel art apartment game that makes the whole experience feel like a small reward. Swipe through flagged photos and watch your apartment come to life as you clear the clutter. Useful and genuinely fun to open.
A Steam Deck plugin that reads your hardware capabilities and a game's software requirements — and when accessible, its code and shaders — then optimizes the game specifically for your device. High-end gaming performance on the hardware you already own.
Every product I build must solve a real problem and feel genuinely enjoyable to use. If it only does one, it goes back to the drawing board.
"I started Chispa Foundry as a gateway to make my crazy ideas real."
I'm Federico — a solo developer with some industry knowledge, trying to create things that are genuinely cool and fun. Not a seasoned engineer with decades of experience. Not a VC-backed startup. Just someone who kept bumping into problems that didn't have good solutions, and decided to build them.
Chispa Foundry is the solo developer studio I created to give those ideas a home. I build across Austin, TX and Mexico City, using AI as a creative and technical partner to move faster than any one person probably should.
The name Chispa means spark in Spanish. A spark is small, directed, and capable of starting something much larger. Every product I ship starts as one.
I answer to users, not investors. That's not a slogan — it's just the natural result of building alone, with no one else to answer to.
The difference between a tool people use and one they tolerate lives entirely in the details. I sweat the details — even when no one will ever notice.
I take familiar problems and ask: what if fixing this was actually fun? That question changes everything about what gets built and how.
I'm not a seasoned software engineer. I'm someone with industry knowledge, curiosity, and AI as a creative partner. That's a different thing — and it's enough to build real products.
A product in someone's hands is worth ten in a Notion doc. Real feedback from real use beats any amount of planning in isolation.
Austin's startup energy and CDMX's creative culture both live in me. That's not a brand story — it's just where I'm actually from and where I actually live.
Chispa Foundry is built for the long game. Each product is one step toward a body of work that proves a single idea: useful and fun are not in conflict. I'm in no rush — just building.
Studio infrastructure, brand, and the first two products in active development. Tidly core functionality complete, in final development. DeckForge being designed and architected from the ground up.
Tidly launches on the iOS App Store. DeckForge enters early access for Steam Deck users. First real users. First real feedback. First real revenue. The studio habit of shipping gets built.
Multiple products actively shipping. DeckForge evolves toward a broader cross-platform hardware intelligence platform. Chispa Foundry becomes a name people recognize — and trust enough to recommend to a friend.
Want early access to Tidly or DeckForge? Have an idea worth talking about? Just want to say hello from CDMX? I read every message.