Kalkman Code

The workshop behind the free app

HorseDex is free because I chose to release it, not because anybody asked. That is one half of what Kalkman Code does — the other half is work people pay me for, and end up owning outright. If you want to put something in for the free half, there is a box further down this page.

Who builds it

Kalkman Code

Kalkman Code is me, Toby Kalkman, working alone in Suffolk. Apps, websites, the private infrastructure behind them, and the occasional keepsake site built for one occasion. There is no team behind the name, no investors and no office — when something in HorseDex changes, it is because I changed it that morning.

That is also why support@horsedex.co.uk goes to a person rather than a queue, and why the answer sometimes arrives before the ticket would have been triaged.

Everything I ship — kalkmancode.co.uk

The coffee

There is nothing to buy here

HorseDex has no paid tier and is not getting one. If it has been useful and you would like to put something in anyway, this is the box for it — one payment, once, for whatever you think it is worth. No monthly anything, no membership, no tier, no account to make. You pick the amount on the next page.

The payment is handled by Stripe, on a page of theirs, because this website has no payment machinery of its own and is not getting any. Your card details never touch HorseDex, nothing about the payment comes back to this site or into the app, and there is nothing on this page watching you read it.

One percent of whatever comes through here goes to permanent carbon removal rather than to me, through Stripe Climate. Stripe say so on the payment page as well, so you are not taking my word for it.

Buy me a coffee

Opens Stripe in a new tab, where you set the amount — by card, or with Apple Pay, Google Pay or Revolut Pay if your device offers them. It reaches your statement as KALKMANCODE, which is the business behind the app rather than the app itself.

What it changes

Nothing whatsoever about the app

A coffee does not unlock a feature, move a bug up the list, or buy a say in what gets built next. Everyone runs exactly the same app, and the support address reaches the same person at the same speed whether you have opened this page or not.

That is deliberate rather than modest. The moment a contribution came with something attached, HorseDex would have a paid tier and stop being free — and free is the whole point of it.