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tobi lutke

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Tobias Lütke is a German-Canadian entrepreneur and programmer who co-founded Shopify in 2006, growing it out of an online snowboard shop he built using Ruby on Rails. He served on the Ruby on Rails core team, created the widely-used Active Merchant open-source library, and remains CEO of Shopify.

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Tools

QMD(github.com/tobi/qmd)

Local CLI search engine combining BM25, vector search, and LLM re-ranking across notes, transcripts, and docs.

Developer ToolsOpen SourceCLI Tools★ 29.6kMITbuilt by tobi
try(https://github.com/tobi/try)

CLI that spins up a fresh scratch directory for each idea so prototypes never pollute your workspace.

Developer ToolsOpen SourceCLI Tools★ 4.0kMITbuilt by tobi
AudioPriorityBar(https://github.com/tobi/audioprioritybar)

Native macOS menu bar app that manages audio device priorities so the right output is chosen as devices come and go.

ProductivityOpen SourceAutomation★ 824MITbuilt by tobi
Amux(https://github.com/tobi/amux)

Multiplexer-style Node.js tool for running parallel agent or terminal sessions.

Developer ToolsOpen SourceCLI Tools★ 20built by tobi

Intel

Learning on the Shop Floor(x.com)

A personal essay by Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke about his apprenticeship in Germany after dropping out of school at 16 to work at a Siemens subsidiary. The piece reflects on how hands-on, basement-level hacker culture shaped his technical and entrepreneurial thinking. It's a rare autobiographical look at the unconventional path behind one of tech's most prominent founders.

EducationFreeReferencebuilt by @tobi