I was tired of heavyweight dev tools — so I built my own

I'll be honest — I didn't set out to build a developer tool.

I'm an engineer by trade. I build structural and forensic engineering software. C++, WinUI 3, heavy desktop apps. But a big chunk of my prototyping and internal tooling happens in Python — and every time I sat down to spin up a quick Python desktop app, I hit the same wall.

Every launcher, every hot-reload tool, every dev cockpit I found wanted something from me. Install this. License that. Set up a virtual environment. Add five dependencies just to watch a file change.

I just wanted to run my app, see it update when I changed something, and get back to work.

So I built ILX Launcher.