It all started with a conversation with Andrei Robu from Typeverything. He was looking for someone to help build a type foundry website using Kirby CMS (or similar). I was already working on a – sort of – hybrid solution for myself so it was a good fit.

Andrei was looking for more complex stuff, things I’d never done that included Python. That – and having a few projects already – made me pass on the offer. By we talked about the possibility to make it into a plugin. And that idea really stuck on me. A few months later, projects had calmed down and I could focus on making a proof of concept.

Flash forward to 2024. That proof of concept worked fine. The core of Fountain took a few months. After that it was all about stability, flexibility and making sure it’s easy to use. Paddle made some changes and launched a new API, which improved Fountain a lot well, but also took some extra time. Much of 2024 has been writing documentation and preparing the plugin to be as flexible as possible. A few people are trying the an alpha release, and I’m hoping to launch soon. Sign up for the newsletter, read the documentation (work in progress) or just reach out to me if you want to know more.