Sometimes utilities can be production-grade, tho, so I don't think that captures the nonchalance the author was looking for.

"Home-cooked apps" is still my preferred phrase. Personal software and subsistence development are also good terms.

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AlotOfReading 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Home-cooked doesn't sound right. The term Handmade has a fair bit of usage for this already and has a lot less semantic friction in my head. Homemade isn't bad either, if you really like the cooking analogy.

	▲	wrsh07 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I think Maggie uses home-cooked here and it works for me because of the extended analogy https://maggieappleton.com/home-cooked-software

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chrisweekly 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

"subsistence development", to me, sounds like "doing menial dev tasks in order to earn enough $ to survive"