FAQ

Where does “dromzeh” come from?

From dr0mz, a name I’ve used online for years. I switched to dromzeh in 2018, and after skowt blew up in 2022 I started using it everywhere so every account matched.

When did you start programming?

At 4, on a hand-me-down laptop.

What got you into web development?

I never meant to get into it. Growing up I wanted to make games more than anything, like a lot of web developers before they find out how hard that is. I’d already made a file uploader that got popular, and I still didn’t want to do web.

Then came a very long chain of events. I loved Nintendo, homebrewed my 3DS and modded Pokémon Sun and Moon. I found the Wii to Wii U transfer video and the Wii U setup fascinating, and could still tell you everything about both. And I might be the only person who has ever loved Nintendo Land this much.

Then I got the Odyssey Switch for Christmas, and it turned out to be faulty. The shop replaced it, but Odyssey had come as a download code I’d already redeemed, so to match the bundle’s price they let me pick any other game. I picked Breath of the Wild, got addicted, and spent a while looking for another game like it.

That game was Genshin Impact, in 2020. I wanted Venti, didn’t get him, and quit. When his banner came back, I got him on a new account and started playing again.

Then I really wanted Yanfei, and waiting for her rate-ups is the only reason I kept playing. It took over 350 wishes across her banners to get her at C0. Enkanomiya was the last region I properly played, but without her I’d have quit well before it.

Still playing in 2022, I saw a TikTok video teaching people how to grab sheets from Genshin’s preview pages. The only other place to get them was a Google Drive, so I went through, grabbed them all and put them on a site, wtf.dromzeh.dev. It did quite well, but people had trouble accessing it, so I set out to make it more accessible. That became wanderer.moe, which became skowt.cc.

Building it is what got me into web properly, and I moved away from what I’d been doing until then: infrastructure, Discord bots, community tools and reverse engineering. Every web project I’ve made since came out of skowt, and for the same reason: I want to solve actual problems.

How did skowt.cc get so big?

Comments. I’d reply “I have a link for them in my bio”, since TikTok deletes actual links. Enough people saw them, found the site and shared it. How it’s built is a different story, and that one’s in the architecture post.

What do you play?

Rhythm games, mostly Fortnite Festival and Quaver. I like deterministic things, and rhythm games are about as deterministic as games get. I haven’t been able to play since an arm injury in May 2026, though.

What do you do full-time?

Currently, I focus on my own company, Antifield, where I’m building Etcht: provenance built on invisible watermarking.

Artists are why I started it, though it isn’t only for them. I care about their work, and I don’t think the answer is checking whether something was made with AI. It’s knowing where content came from in the first place, and the systems for that today aren’t good enough for what artists deserve.

It’s invisible because everything else comes off too easily. A visible watermark gets cropped out, or gets in the way of the work. The details saved inside a file get stripped the moment it’s uploaded almost anywhere. An invisible watermark lives in the image itself, so a piece can still be traced back to whoever made it after it’s been reposted, cropped, screenshotted or compressed.

It’s live at etcht.dev. The content sharing platform built on it is still on the way.

Why do you work solo?

Because I enjoy what I do.

Do you use AI?

Yes, to help me write and debug code. I’ve written code by hand since I was 4, and I still write a considerable amount of it by hand, because I don’t want to lose touch with why I do this.

I still design and develop everything myself. I often work 80 to 100 hours a week across everything I do, unpaid, and that extra help is what keeps it sustainable.

I don’t support generative AI for images or video, and I’m building software to solve the problem of stolen work. AI should never replace the people who make things. Everyone has their own way of doing things, and that’s what makes the work human.

Do you take contracts or freelance work?

It depends on the scope of the project. If you have something in mind, book a call.

How do I get in touch?

For anything professional, book a call. Otherwise, I’m dromzeh on Discord, or you can message me at dm.new/marc.