An anti-founder is a person who looked at the founder software market — the racket where someone wraps an open-source primitive in a UI, charges $200 per seat per month, ships a deck full of TAM math, and claims the moat is "execution" — and decided the only honest answer was to burn down the moat in front of everyone.
I tried doing it the other way. I tried the cofounder route. Someone tried to take public-domain code I wrote, hide the receipts, dress it in a hoodie, and sell it as a startup. The plan was to take a weekend's worth of Unlicensed work and ride it through a fundraise like the bytes themselves were the secret.
I gave him his copy and walked away. The original is still mine. The doctrine got clearer.
Each of these is a one-binary, single-laptop reimagining of a tool venture-funded companies have raised tens to hundreds of millions to sell. Built on the weekends listed. Released under the Unlicense. Public domain. Take it.
| Project | Replaces | Time | License | Repo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| runsible | Ansible (Red Hat / IBM) | 6 hrs | Unlicense | github.com/cochranblock/runsible |
| r8r | n8n (Series B, $60M raised) | 12 hrs | Unlicense | github.com/cochranblock/r8r |
| kova | LangChain & agentic frameworks | ongoing | Unlicense | github.com/cochranblock/kova |
| rogue-repo | Stripe Issuing / payment-engine SaaS | weekend | Unlicense | github.com/cochranblock/rogue-repo |
| approuter | Cloudflare Pages / Vercel-tier reverse proxy | weekend | Unlicense | github.com/cochranblock/approuter |
| tmuxisfree | LangChain orchestration shells | weekend | Unlicense | github.com/cochranblock/tmuxisfree |
| pixel-forge | on-device image-gen / mid-journey-on-server | weekend | Unlicense | github.com/cochranblock/pixel-forge |
| any-gpu | cloud GPU rentals for inference | weekend | Unlicense | github.com/cochranblock/any-gpu |
for-tanner, a private Rust port I wrote intending to onboard a cofounder. When the cofounder track ended, I gave him a copy and renamed mine. The receipts move with me.
Nothing. That's the entire point.
I sell my time, not my code. The Cochran Block, LLC is an SDVOSB-eligible shop. We do federal contracting, cleared cyber engineering, and bespoke Rust modernization. The free tools are the resume.
If you're a founder, an engineering leader, a CTO who is sick of being shaken down by SaaS rent, or a federal program manager who is tired of being told "you can't run that on-prem":
Take any of the tools above. Run them. Fork them. Use them in production. Tell me what to rebuild next. The Unlicense means I cannot stop you and would not if I could.
Contact: mcochran@cochranblock.org · github.com/cochranblock · resume
I do still run KNOXAI, the third-party AI-model integrity certification operation, on a separate subdomain. KNOXAI is a paid service because some work — vetted access to NCMEC / IWF / CAID, hardware-signed certs, ESP-registered audits — is illegal to give away. The radioactive data has gates for a reason.
Everything else I touch goes Unlicense. KNOXAI is the exception that proves the rule, and even there the verification artifacts are public.