The work
Different markets, one customer: someone doing a big job with a small team. Usually a team of one. Every screen below is the real product, photographed as it runs.
Cabinets 01–11
Products that exist, boot, and have someone using them. Each one is a full application, not a landing page with a waitlist.
Booking, prepaid packs, and a running record that never loses a session.
Independent youth-sports coaches run real businesses out of group chats and payment apps. Rostr gives them a booking page, prepaid session packs that burn down on their own, and a ledger that survives a tax question. Zero platform fees, because it’s your whistle.
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Save it now. Hear it later. Archive it automatically.
A read-it-later app that finishes the job. Articles get fetched and cleaned, read aloud in a real voice while you drive, and archived the moment you reach the end. A queue that only ever grows is a queue you stop opening, so this one empties itself.
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A podcast player with transcripts and ad intelligence.
Transcripts for every episode, ad spans mapped on the timeline and skipped or left alone per show, and a playback position that follows you from the car to the desk. It runs on iPhone and in the browser, and it never inserts an ad of its own.
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Interleaved, spaced, honest.
Math and language-arts practice for middle schoolers, built on learning science the incumbents ignore and rendered on paper that looks like school. Nine question shapes, an explanation for every miss, and a progress digest a parent can read in ten seconds. No coins, no pets, no casino.
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A menu bar manager for macOS that asks for nothing.
Snug tucks the icons you don’t need out of sight and hands any of them back the moment you ask. Same job as the incumbent, different promise: no telemetry, no subscription, and it never asks permission to record your screen.
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An AI receptionist for barbershops and salons.
She answers the calls and the texts, quotes hours and prices off live shop data, and books, moves, or cancels appointments while the chairs stay full. Then she writes down everything she did on one screen the owner can read between clients.
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Booking that asks the question clients actually have.
A client picks the barber first, then the service, then the time. Every other booking product does it backwards, which is why a client loyal to one chair guesses a time, finds out their barber is busy, and calls the shop instead. Queueist is the sibling Operator books into.
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Live 1-on-1, documented for parents.
Real tutors, live sessions, one shared token wallet for the whole family, and a note to the parent after every session: what was covered, what clicked, what didn’t. Tutoring is a trust product sold as a black box. We made the box transparent.
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Halves, quarters, thirds and sixths, on every display, with Snap Back.
A keyboard-first window manager for the Mac, built to replace SizeUp on Apple Silicon. Press a key and the window snaps into place; press it again and it steps to the next size. Saved layouts bring a whole desk back in one key, and Snap Back undoes any of it.
Visit sizemac.app →
A text expander that stays on your Mac.
Type a short abbreviation, press Tab, and the whole thing appears: fill-in forms, dates that do arithmetic, scripts, and imports from every expander you have used. No account and no server of ours, because the snippets live in readable files on the Mac.
Visit expando.app →
A touch-typing course with levels, tests, games and stats.
Keys are introduced one at a time from the home row out, each with a level to clear before the next arrives. Timed tests, games that drill the fingers that lag, and stats that show the speed climbing week over week.
Visit homerowhero.com →Cabinets 12–16
The studio’s own brand, a sibling that is parked on purpose, and the two things here that are not software.
The studio’s rapid product arm.
Vibe turns rough product ideas into focused, launchable releases, usually with a first release one month out from kickoff. It is the front door for the consulting half of High5 Labs, and the identity makes the method visible: persistence for momentum, an aperture for the decision.
The brand story →
A storefront for coaches whose day job this is.
The premium sibling of Rostr, on the same CoachCore engine: a branded storefront, a team dashboard, and statements an accountant will accept without a phone call, at a flat 1.9% per booking. Parked while Rostr ships first, and kept running the whole time.
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Comp intelligence for student housing.
Each property watched against its direct competitors, on public websites and public social only. A Monday digest, same-day alerts when a comp launches a special, and a compliance line drawn in the architecture rather than the fine print.
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Real sourdough, delivered par-baked.
A 48-hour cold-fermented country loaf, deck-baked and shipped par-baked so you finish the crust to a crackle in your own oven. The one thing on this floor you can eat, and it is already live.
Visit the live bakery →
The studio’s house band. Yes, really.
A real band of Triangle kids playing rock covers at real local venues, noticeably faster than the originals, every month or two, because school comes first. High5 Labs handles management, catering, and load-in.
The full story →Cabinets 17–18
Concepts we have designed and costed but not built. Listed because we would still like to make them, and labeled so nobody mistakes a drawing for a download.
Run the league. Keep the day job.
A constraint-based schedule solver, one-tap rainout cascades, and parent comms with read receipts. Built for the parent who agreed to run the rec league at a meeting they only attended to sign a form.
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Monitors for the things you grow on purpose.
A sensor collar for the sourdough jar, a greenhouse bed monitor with an automated valve, and a plant camera with an on-device AI agronomist. Local-first, no subscription: it speaks only when a human should act.
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