Hi.

I built Cliptych because I read more interesting things than I share, and I got tired of pretending Canva was the answer.

The bottleneck

Most of my best ideas come from things I read — articles, tweets, docs, books. The friction wasn't writing a take. It was the gap between "this is a good quote" and "here is a finished carousel."

That gap is:

• Open Canva. Sign in. Wait.
• Find a template that doesn't scream "Canva".
• Copy-paste the quote. Fight the font sizes.
• Export PNG. Download. Switch to LinkedIn. Upload.
• Realize one panel is wrong. Go back. Redo.

Six steps. Enough friction to kill the share impulse. I'd skip step one if I had to do step two.

The fix

Cliptych lives in the tab I'm already in. Highlight a sentence. Right-click. The editor opens with the panel already made. Edit, export, upload. That's the whole thing.

Tools should live where you already are. Destinations are a tax on the share impulse.

How it's built

Cliptych is a Chrome extension. It's ~410 KB zipped. There is no server. No accounts. No analytics. Your panels live in chrome.storage.local and they stay there.

• WXT for the extension build pipeline
• Svelte 5 with the new $state runes
• html-to-image + jsPDF for the panel-to-file step
• Lemon Squeezy for payments (because Stripe doesn't accept Vietnamese founders, and I'm a Vietnamese founder)

The whole stack fits in a weekend's worth of explanation. No microservices, no AI inference, no recurring infrastructure bill. The economic model is: write code once, sell it for a coffee and a tip, support an indie.

Why Vietnam matters here

Stripe doesn't let Vietnamese founders take direct payments. Most indie payment tools are Stripe-locked, which means they don't let Vietnamese founders take payments either. That's a real constraint, and it shaped one of the most important architectural decisions in this product.

Lemon Squeezy is a Merchant of Record — they sit between you and the buyer, handle tax in 100+ countries, and pay out to Wise. That works for me. I'd be a worse developer without that constraint, because I would have defaulted to Stripe and never thought twice.

What's next

Cliptych is the first product I'm shipping under Just Dawn — a small catalog of in-context Chrome extensions for knowledge workers. The theme: tools that fit in the tab you're already in. If carousel-making is the shape of one tool, there are five other shapes waiting.

When the Just Dawn catalog gets to three tools, there will be a bundle. Paid customers of Cliptych Pro will get a meaningful discount on it. I'm telling you now so you don't feel surprised later.

Pricing, for the curious

Cliptych Pro is $9.99 once. Paid once. Forever. No subscription.

Reason: carousel-making is not a daily activity for most people. Subscription pricing assumes daily use. A one-time price assumes occasional use, which is what this actually is.

Of the $9.99: Lemon Squeezy takes 5% + 50¢ (roughly $1 per sale). I get the rest. That goes into building the next thing.

Get in touch

If you use Cliptych and something is broken, tell me: thanhduy2910@gmail.com. If you have an idea for what comes next in the catalog, I want to hear it.

— Dawn Saigon, 2026