Become a sponsor to Richard Bland
Marbl Codes
Hi, I'm Richard Bland and this is Marbl Codes (trading name of MEM Digital Ltd, based in Northamptonshire, UK). I've been building for the web for 27 years and I'm more excited about what's coming next than anything that came before.
These days I build AI-powered platforms, voice assistants, and developer tools. Some are client work. Some are internal products. A growing number are open source, and that's where sponsors come in.
What your sponsorship supports
Right now, primarily Marbl Motions: an MCP server that gives Claude Code (and any MCP-speaking AI assistant) a voice and an expressive dot-matrix face. Local, free, privacy-first. It's the first piece of the Marbl ecosystem to go public, and the first place your sponsorship goes.
Next in the queue:
- Cloudflare-native patterns. Templates, starter kits, and reference implementations drawn from the Marbl ecosystem: Workers, D1, R2, Queues, Pages.
- Voice AI utilities. Building blocks around Whisper, Kokoro, ElevenLabs, and local voice stacks.
- AI-agent tooling. MCP servers for content, observability, and the workflow patterns we use internally.
Why sponsor a solo shop?
Marbl Codes is a small team. No layers. No account managers. No templated solutions. We build things we'd want to use ourselves, and we publish the pieces we think others will want too.
Sponsorship doesn't buy a support contract or priority bug fixes. It buys time: the time to polish something built for internal use into something you can install with one command. It's the difference between a tool that never leaves the Marbl codebase and one that becomes a thing other people can rely on.
Philosophy
Code is the new marble.
Build it once. Build it properly. Make it last.
Links
- Marbl Codes: marbl.codes
- Marbl Motions (first public OSS): github.com/memdigital/marbl-motions
- Buy Me a Coffee (one-off support): buymeacoffee.com/marblcodes
- Newsletter: subscribe.marbl.codes
Thank you. Genuinely. Sponsoring a solo shop is a real vote of confidence, and it's what keeps the OSS work moving instead of slipping behind client billable hours.
Richard, Marbl Codes
Would enable us to focus primarily on development tasks and cover the costs of platforms and tools we are developing for you lovely people. Thank you!