is a software development studio. We build technical products and work with businesses to grow their software engineering capacity and product offerings.
Products
GHLiveBLE: Play rhythm games with Guitar Hero Live Bluetooth controllers
SerialSpy: Serial packet inspection tool for recording and analyzing serial data transfers
Babbleboard: Speech-focused Chinese language learning tool
GetMyThrift: Scan for rare / esoteric items from aggregated marketplaces around the world
AlightWhere: Visualize and track your UK National Rail destinations by origin station and travel time
MyOwnTube: Download videos and host them on your local network for curated offline watching
GetGPX: backup and share your favorite outdoor activity routes across multiple activity trackers (ex: Strava, MapMyRide, etc.)
TimeLeft: time-based progress bar that lives in your MacOS system menu
Fresh: Housechore tracking app to track and split task lists
MobiWriterPlus: Convert HTML format ebooks with images into MOBI files for legacy MobiPocket e-readers
In Terms of Calculator: Compare the costs in terms of other costs in a dashboard / scanner format
EZ3DTracer: Trace any 2D design and extrude it into a 3D STL / OBJ file for rapid-prototyping
Scrapers
Daycare / nursery / primary education apps to backup your child's digital records
UK company public registry data collection to find trends by incorporation date and location
Games
Kulami: abstract, area-control digital board game with a CPU player that taunts you
Connections: abstract, path building digital board game with a CPU player
Services
Here are some of the most popular services our customers have requested:
Coding: Building reliable software for you, embedded as part of your teams to give you working software on schedule and within budget
Technical Audit: Periodic or one-time evaluation reports of technical areas of risk and areas of strength of your products
Process Improvement: Creating and refining your software development, software testing, and support processes to give you maximum confidence in achieving consistent results
Org Growth & Retention: Helping you tailor an effective organizational approach to attracting and retaining skilled staff to fill your engineering team rosters
Our collaboration is guided by a systematic approach to ensure no opportunities for improvement are left behind.
Further details on process
Listen: We immerse ourselves in your operating context by choosing an unfulfilled high-level problem or goal. This is chunked into specific tasks that we can fulfill with your product development team.
Recognize: We work under your existing processes and stretch them out to test their limits. This identifies locations for decisive change.
Draft: We draft an idealized version of your way of working by defining specific actions using appropriate best practices. You can use this to pick the most impactful changes to existing processes.
Induct: We act as a force-multiplier by helping you recruit and by building up individuals to fulfill your team roles; whether they be dev, product, test, or management.
Work: You allow the new processes and teams to function as designed. Together, we continue observing, and course-correcting to the delivery stage and beyond.
Tech tooling
Our expertise in tooling covers apps across the web and all major desktop and mobile platforms:
Full-stack apps across web platforms / clouds (AWS, Azure, Cloudflare, Heroku)
Windows, MacOS, and Linux (Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, Raspberry Pi OS)
iOS (12.0 +) and Android (API Level 13+)
Many embedded devices via C or assembly
Further details on tools
We are strong believers in choosing the right tools for the job.
If a tool does not exist, we can create it.
Technology is a means to an end.