Yostmark Inc

What Yostmark Inc does

Yostmark Inc is presented in firmographic metadata as a for-profit entity founded in 1993 and operating yost.com from Driggs, United States, but the source material indicates that yost.com is in fact the personal website of Dave Yost (David Arthur Yost), with the copyright held personally and no corroborating evidence of a corporate entity called Yostmark Inc. The site is maintained by a single individual and has no formal employees, no funding, no parent or subsidiary structure, and no identified paying customers. Its content consists of Unix and Mac command-line utilities (d, yostupload, mkredir, diffinteractive, probecheck, reveal), Java development tools (compileAndGo, AnimationExecutor, javago), technical proposals (aliaslinks, shebang headers, Yost Serial Device Wiring Standard), information design visualizations (Inside-out Multiplication Table, Linear Summer Calendar), two published art posters (Steinway Concert Grand, 1984; Fifth Avenue, 1988), Goon Show preservation material, and iPhone ringtones.

The underlying technology stack is narrow and legacy: shell scripting (bash, zsh), Java, JavaScript, and standard Unix utilities, with several proprietary utilities and a proposed file-system extension (aliaslinks). The Yost Serial Device Wiring Standard, developed in 1987, achieved adoption via inclusion in the Unix System Administration Handbook. The Steinway Concert Grand poster received a personal endorsement from Henry Z. Steinway, and the poster is sold through Steinway & Sons rather than directly by Yost.

The business model is effectively non-commercial. All software tools, code samples, art prints (other than the Steinway poster sold via Steinway), and information design works are distributed free of charge with no registration or payment step. There is no pricing model, no advertising inventory, no SaaS offering, and no GTM motion beyond a passive web presence discovered via search engines and inbound links. Contact is via a single email address ([email protected]). Recent site modifications are sparse (the home page was last modified 2018-07-01, with the author explicitly noting minimal recent activity), indicating a static personal archive rather than an active commercial venture.

Name

Yostmark Inc

Legal name

David Arthur Yost

Website

https://yost.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1997

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Yostmark Inc operates yost.com, a personal website maintained by Dave Yost that distributes free Unix/Mac command-line utilities, Java tools, technical proposals, information design visualizations, art posters, and Goon Show preservation material to anonymous web visitors with no commercial transactions.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Driggs

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Infrastructure, Operations

Revenue model

1. Personal website - no commercial revenue: This is a personal website hosting freely available software tools, code samples, and artistic works. No commercial transactions or revenue generation occurs through the site.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Yostmark Inc (operating as yost.com) is Dave Yost's personal website hosting a portfolio of freely available Unix/Mac shell utilities, Java development tools, technical proposals, information design visualizations, art posters, and iPhone ringtones. The site distributes independently-developed software tools and creative works directly to visitors without commercial transactions, with the Steinway Concert Grand poster additionally made available for purchase through Steinway & Sons.

Product overview

Yostmark Inc operates as yost.com, Dave Yost's personal website containing various open-source Unix/Mac command-line utilities (d, yostupload, mkredir, diffinteractive), Java development tools (compileAndGo, AnimationExecutor), technical proposals (aliaslinks, shebang headers), information design visualizations (Inside-out Multiplication Table, Summer Calendar), art posters (Steinway Concert Grand, Fifth Avenue), and iPhone ringtones. The portfolio is a collection of independently-developed tools and creative works rather than a unified product platform.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• compileAndGo A shebang header command that allows compiled-language source code such as Java and C++ to act like executable scripts, with automatic caching and recompilation, intended for Unix/Mac developers.
• yostupload A command-line program to upload or download files to/from a server using rsync, ftp, or sftp, with configuration stored in hidden files, for web publishing workflows.
• d command A command-line program to run make or other commands in the background with output redirected to a log file, with various helper shell functions for process management.
• mkredir A Unix shell command-line program to create HTML redirect pages when moving files, replacing old URLs with redirects to new locations.
• diffinteractive A utility that runs a visual diff program on files flagged by diff -rq, asking the user which differences to examine.
• AnimationExecutor An Executor-like Java class that executes animation tasks serially in the AWT Event Thread, managing type-ahead or click-ahead in animation scenarios.
• Yost Serial Device Wiring Standard An RS-232 serial device wiring standard using RJ-45 connectors with consistent pinouts to eliminate null-modem adapters, developed in 1987 and adopted by the Unix System Administration Handbook.
• iPhone ringtones Downloadable iPhone ringtones in .m4r format including classical music, movie sounds, and custom recordings.
• Steinway Concert Grand poster An art poster of a Steinway Model D Concert Grand piano, published in 1984, 22x28 inches, featuring photography by Douglas Hopkins; available for purchase through Steinway & Sons.
• Fifth Avenue poster An art poster of Fifth Avenue in New York City with accompanying booklet, published in 1988, 24x36 inches.
• Inside-out Multiplication Table An information design visualization showing multiplication facts where row numbers are answers and column numbers are factors, downloadable as PDF, worksheet, or Excel spreadsheet.
• Linear Summer Calendar A linear visualization of the summer timeline (June through August) as a single 4-foot strip, downloadable as PDF.
• Opensource License (modified BSD) A modified BSD license requiring version identification, source URL, and permission for commercial redistribution.

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature7 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Steinway & SonsminorOthersDave Yost created the Steinway Concert Grand art poster in 1984 with cooperation from Steinway & Sons. The company provided access to their factory and a new Model D piano for photography. The poster is available for purchase through Steinway & Sons. Henry Z. Steinway personally praised the work and engaged with Yost over the years.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves4 records

Broad incumbents

• Etsy: Etsy is a broad marketplace for handmade and artistic goods. While Yostmark's poster sales are channeled through Steinway, Etsy represents the kind of scaled marketplace where individual creator/poster IP could be productized commercially.
• GitHub: GitHub is the dominant platform for hosting and distributing open-source software projects and personal developer portfolios. While Yostmark is a single-person website sharing Unix/Java tools, GitHub operates at massive scale with commercial offerings layered on top of the same open-source distribution model.
• Stack Overflow: Stack Overflow is the largest community knowledge base for software developers. Yostmark's free Java/Unix utility documentation serves a similar audience (developers seeking reusable code and tooling) but at a single-author, single-domain scale versus Stack Overflow's community-driven Q&A platform.
• O'Reilly Media: O'Reilly publishes technical books and resources on Unix, Java, and developer tooling — the same subject matter covered in Yostmark's documentation. O'Reilly represents the scaled, commercial counterpart to Yostmark's free developer-education content.

Emerging players

• Society6: Society6 is a creator-commerce platform where artists sell prints and merchandise. Yostmark's Steinway Concert Grand and Fifth Avenue art posters could theoretically be sold through similar creator-commerce channels; Society6 represents a more scalable, multi-artist version of the licensing arrangement Yostmark has with Steinway & Sons.
• Redbubble: Redbubble operates a global marketplace for independent artists to sell prints and merchandise. It parallels Yostmark's distribution of art posters through Steinway & Sons but at a much larger, multi-artist scale.
• Smashing Magazine: Smashing Magazine publishes web development and design articles and resources. It is comparable to Yostmark's computers/Unix documentation section but with editorial scale, monetization, and a developer/designer audience overlap.

Direct peers

• SourceForge: SourceForge is an open-source software hosting and download platform. Both SourceForge and Yostmark host and distribute freely available Unix/developer tools; the difference is scale and monetization layer (SourceForge runs ads and enterprise services, Yostmark distributes for free).

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/yostmark-mountain-equipment

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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