Lee Kelly's Space — Open-Source Product Builder

My URL:
https://leekelly.org/

Lee's Interests

General: Useful tools, self-hosting, open source, good documentation
Developer-facing: Product positioning, documentation and onboarding, community support, issue triage, release communication, customer feedback synthesis
Technical: JavaScript, Node.js, React, SQLite, APIs and integrations, Docker, Linux, GitHub Actions, authentication, self-hosting, Python automation
Marketing: Product marketing, messaging and positioning, analytics, UX improvement, process automation, cross-functional communication

Lee's Details

Here for:	Open source, remote work, good conversations
Location:	Florida, Eastern Time
Occupation:	Product builder & technical marketer
Status:	Available for remote work
Current mood:	one more tiny fix

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Lee's Latest Projects

Aurral: music discovery and playlists (view more)

Hypermind: peer-to-peer networking (view more)

KillShot: horror discovery (view more)

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Lee's Latest Blog Entries

Case study: growing Aurral to 1.7M pulls with no ad budget (view more)Reddit, Discord, and support as a growth channel
When my users became someone else's problem (view more)What Soulseek users taught me about defaults
What 16 integrations taught me about self-hosted software (view more)Building on servers I'll never see
Supporting 1.7 million pulls without a support team (view more)Mention alerts, Discord, and docs

Lee's Blurbs

About me:

I build, position, document, and support technical products. I created and maintain Aurral and Hypermind. I like making tricky self-hosted software easier to use.

Who I'd like to meet:

I'm looking for a remote role in developer marketing, technical community, product support, or Developer Relations, ideally with a team building useful tools for developers.

Lee's Friend Space (top 8)

Lee has 8 friends.

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Lee's Projects (5)

Aurral

Music discovery & playlists for the Lidarr ecosystem

1.7K stars · 1.7M+ pulls

Self-hosted music discovery and playlists for Lidarr. I lead the product, build features, write docs, run releases, and support the community.

Built multi-user onboarding and integrations for music, metadata, authentication, and notifications.
Turn recurring install problems into product and documentation improvements.

Hypermind

Decentralized peer-to-peer networking experiment

841 stars · 260K+ pulls

An open-source peer-to-peer experiment made easier to try with Docker images, clear docs, and real-time diagnostics. Community feedback guides its iteration.

KillShot

Independent horror media, games, & discovery

40K active users · 305K events

I built and run this horror discovery platform with React, Supabase, Cloudflare, and publishing automation. A January–August 2026 Google Analytics snapshot showed 40,000 active users, 90,000 views, and 305,000 tracked events.

Hypermind SwarmEphemeral peer-to-peer social platform84 stars · 13K+ pulls SortifySelf-hosted playlist assistant7 stars · 13K+ pulls

Lee's work stuff

Technical Operations Lead & Marketing Manager

Daytona Employment

Oct 2024–Present

Own technical and operational support across Shopify, eBay, Cloudflare, and internal tools for two brands.
Built a Python logistics tool to automate recurring inventory reporting.
Lead UX, brand, editorial, and lifecycle marketing improvements for two ecommerce brands.
Turn recurring support issues into documentation, process, and tooling improvements.

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