Steph Ango (kepano)

Updated 2026-04-10

CEO and co-creator of Obsidian. Previously co-founded Lumi and Inkodye. Advocate of the File over App philosophy and of user-funded software. Writes publicly at stephango.com.

“I adhere to the philosophy of File over app.”

Ideas and Concepts

  • File over App - digital artifacts should exist as open files, not be trapped inside apps
  • User-Funded Growth - growth through quality rather than investor runway
  • Be Vanilla - becoming the best default requires unusual quality

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