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Nightglow
Solo · Product & full-stack · 2024
A screen-as-softbox fill light for night selfies — smart color temperature and brightness so faces stay clear in the dark. Shipped as both App and mini program.
Full-stack Engineer · Indie Developer
Chris Ley南舟
Turning ideas into products, one light at a time
Independent developer and full-stack engineer. I have built a fill light that keeps faces clear in the dark, and whole platforms for AI relaying and self-hosting. I believe good products are lit up one small detail at a time.
Worked in
Wuhan·Guangzhou·Beijing
About
Turning ideas into products, one light at a time
Over a decade of front-line engineering, across technical teams in Wuhan, Guangzhou and Beijing. From architecture and core development to deployment and launch, I own the full product lifecycle end to end — less overhead, higher completeness, and control over every detail that matters.
I specialise in distilling complex technical problems into clean, dependable solutions: high-concurrency back-end services, resilient system architecture, and thoroughly polished front-end experiences — delivered with an engineer’s rigour and a maker’s standard, built to hold up in the real world over time.
- Focus
- Full-stack architecture · Solo delivery
- Stack
- Web · Mobile · Server
- Standard
- Rigorous · Complete · Maintainable
Selected Work
A few things I took from 0 to 1 and kept polishing.
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RelayHub
Founder · Architecture & backend · 2025
A one-stop AI service relay that aggregates multiple model providers behind unified auth, billing and routing — plugging in AI as simply as plugging in a cable.
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Don't Starve, Launch!
Solo developer · 2023
A one-click launcher for Don’t Starve dedicated servers. Manage worlds, mods, saves and networking from a GUI — turning fiddly command-line hosting into a few clicks.
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Shipyard
Founder · Full-stack · 2025
A self-hosted deployment platform. Container orchestration, domains, certificates and rollbacks in one panel — giving solo developers their own small cloud.
Work with me · Personal sites
Custom personal websites, on commission
33clients served and delivered to date
I design high-craft, search-friendly personal sites for individuals, creators and teams — from visual direction and content to SEO and deployment, delivered end to end. Want a site like this one? Let’s talk on WeChat.
- A distinctive visual direction — never a template face
- Full-spectrum SEO so people find you at a glance
- Static and fast — instant loads, stable, easy to maintain
Get in touch
Product ideas, commissions, or just to say hi — all welcome.
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