Skeleton — needs your words

About Us

A small workshop building the tools it needed and could not find. Six applications, one account, and no ambition to become a platform.

Why these six

Every one of them started the same way: a job that mattered, being done on paper or in a spreadsheet or from memory, where getting it wrong had consequences that were not merely annoying. A compressor filter is not something to guess about. Neither is a scrubber.

So the first user of each application is the person writing it, and each one has to earn its keep in real use for a season before anybody else is asked to pay for it. That is a slower way to build software. It is also the only way to end up with the right software.

How they are built

Web first
Every application is a web application before it is anything else, so it works on whatever is in front of you.
Then genuinely native
iOS and iPadOS as one universal app, Android as its own — real native apps over the same account and the same data, not a website in a wrapper.
No passwords
Sign in with Apple, Google or Microsoft. We hold no password, so there is none to lose.
No tracking
No analytics, no advertising, no third-party scripts, no data sold to anyone. This site does not even set a cookie.
Your data leaves when you do
Full export, and account deletion that actually deletes. Built in from the start rather than added when somebody demands it.
This page is a placeholder. The real one names who is behind it, where they dive and what they have been building for the last twenty years. That is worth writing properly rather than filling in now.

Where it runs

Deliberately small. These applications are built to run on modest, boring, well-understood infrastructure — plain PHP and a relational database — so there is no stack to maintain, nothing that stops working when a framework moves on, and no third party in the middle of your login.

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