Who's behind this
I'm David Kohout, a developer from the Czech Republic. I build SimLauncher under Stashpeak, the small software outfit I run my projects through. It's a solo effort: I design, review, and ship every change, curate the app directory, and handle support on GitHub and Discord myself.
I got my first wheel at around ten years old, a Logitech WingMan Formula Force GP, which already had force feedback and felt like absolute high tech at the time. Apart from one roughly five year pause, there has been a wheel on my desk ever since: a Thrustmaster T300RS with load cell pedals for years, and more recently my first direct drive base, a T598. About a year ago I finally gave the rig a permanent spot at home, so that racing would mean sitting down and driving instead of half an hour of pulling gear out of a closet first.
Except a permanent rig didn't fix the last step. Before you can actually drive, you still need the sim running, plus SimHub for dashboards, Crew Chief for spotter and strategy calls, overlays, telemetry tools, and wheelbase software, each one opened by hand, every single session. Forget one and you only notice mid-race that your spotter never started. I got tired of that ritual, so I built a tool that collapses the whole stack into one click instead.
SimLauncher is free and open source under the GPL v3 license. The full source is public at github.com/Stashpeak/SimLauncher, so you can read every line, the commit history, and the CI runs before trusting the installer, or build it yourself from source instead of running the published binary.
Openness and trust
The Windows installer is code-signed, so Windows shows a verified publisher name (David Kohout) instead of an unknown one. Development is AI-assisted (Claude Code, Codex and Gemini), with human review on every change, and that's disclosed openly in the commit history rather than hidden.
I also maintain a small sim racing app directory alongside SimLauncher: a hand-curated list of companion apps with a dated fact behind every development-status label, in case you're looking for tools beyond what SimLauncher launches for you.
Bugs and feature ideas go in a GitHub issue - that's the support channel. For anything else, email [email protected]. For how the website and the app handle data, see the privacy page.