--- title: "Hello, world!" author: Garrett Winder date: 2025-03-03 source: Better Than Good weight: current url: https://garrettwinder.com/betterthangood/hello-world/ first_published_at: https://betterthangood.xyz/blog/hello-world/ --- # Hello, world! > Reflects how Garrett thinks now: recent writing, and older posts he still stands behind. Written March 2025, Better Than Good. For what’s current, see https://garrettwinder.com/agents.md. It’s been a while since I sat behind the wheel of a fresh new website. The [last first blog post I wrote](/simplygoodwork/an-introduction-to-good-work/) was in 2014 shortly after starting [Good Work](https://www.simplygoodwork.com/), the web development agency that I started and ran for over 10 years. Before that was Erskine Design and before that was a web design company I started in college. If you add it all together I’ve spent 18 long years in digital client services. With my last business, Good Work, I followed the classic maker-to-business-owner trajectory—doing what I loved (making things), then gradually delegating my work to others until, before I knew it, I wasn’t making anything at all! I spent most of 2024 thinking through my purpose and what I should do next. I considered everything from operations consulting for digital service businesses to riding the [silver tsunami](https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbesfinancecouncil/2021/11/10/silver-tsunami-means-more-business-acquisition-opportunities/) and purchasing a 20-30 year old blue collar business. Every few months I came to my wife with a new idea for our future, and she somehow patiently cheered on each one of them. I got pretty far into a few ideas before realizing that I couldn’t see myself doing any of it! Back to the drawing board... One day I was speaking to [Phil](https://www.philswan.co/) about this conundrum and through conversation, I remembered an old known that I had lost sight of: _I was born to make stuff on the internet_. After about five seconds of back and forth it became incredibly clear that the next step was to start the last business I’ll ever work at; a little software studio called [Better than good](/). --- Looking back, the best moments of my career were when I was [deep in the details](/erskinedesign/typographic-styling-scss/): designing, coding, and creating. And that’s what **Better than good** is all about—meticulously creating software that is fast, simple, and a joy to use. Our first app will launch sometime this summer, available on the web, iOS, and Mac. I’ll be sharing the journey on this blog along the way.