Notebook
Launches, notes, and the occasional process post.
We shipped one app per niche — Car, Bike, Moto, RV; Pup, Kitty, Paws — then deleted five of them. Here is why the niche-per-app instinct was wrong for a two-person studio, dead-ends included.
Read moreWe turned App Store screenshot production into a one-command factory — and spent the day watching the human quality gate catch failures that all looked finished. The story, dead-ends included.
Read moreBehind most of our apps is a structured dataset — maintenance schedules, care routines, reading passages. We publish that data twice: as a private app, and as a free tool anyone can use on the open web. Here is why, and how.
Read moreWe are running a small app studio where AI agents do the production work and a human owns the quality gate. Here is what that is actually like — honestly, dead-ends included.
Read moreThe database that powers Car Story is now browsable on this site — service intervals and cost estimates for over a thousand vehicles, free for anyone.
Read moreOur first app is live on the App Store. Car Story is a private, local-first maintenance tracker for everything you drive.
Read moreA new home for what we build — apps, visuals, and the things in between.
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