From Buenos Aires to your year
The story of Faro
Hey! I'm Tomás
Buenos Aires, Argentina
A small product, built with an obsession for getting the tone right.
The problem was not reviewing the year. It was that everything felt like work.
I'm a software engineer in Buenos Aires with over 6 years of experience. In April 2026, I left my full-time job to pursue my dream of becoming an indie developer and building products with real impact.
01
The friction
Every year I wanted to do the thing companies call an “annual review”: step back, look at where I'd been, and set a direction for what came next. But every tool for it felt like the office: rigid goals, OKRs, dashboards, and that quiet pressure to perform.
02
The useful part
What I actually wanted were the useful parts: setting a direction, reflecting honestly, and noticing my own patterns without the corporate weight. A place to pause, write down what mattered, and come back to the year with a little more perspective.
03
The direction
So Faro was born: goals that stay human, check-ins that feel gentle, and AI reviews that help you understand yourself instead of grading you. And because it holds your most personal thoughts, it's private by design: your content never trains AI or feeds analytics.
Human goals
Direction, context, and room to change without turning your year into a dashboard.
Check-ins without pressure
Prompts for noticing how you are doing, with no scores and no right answers.
AI with clear boundaries
Reviews and questions over the content you allow, always with sources in view.
Your content never trains AI or feeds analytics.
It's early, but the course is clear: a calm system for reflection. Faro is now yours too. I hope it helps you give your year direction, and never lose sight of your lighthouse. 🧡