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Notes from the studio.

Occasional writing on building small, offline, privacy-first software - and the problems that turned into apps.

Jun 2, 2026 · 2 min read

How I decide which app to build next

With one person and no investors, every app has to earn its place. Here is the filter an idea has to pass before it becomes a Flowstate app.

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May 30, 2026 · 2 min read

The end-of-shift habit that pays off

The value of a tip tracker is not any single number. It is the small habit of logging every shift, and what that record tells you a month later.

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May 28, 2026 · 2 min read

Continent to city: how precisely to track a place

A weekend in a city and a layover on a continent are not the same kind of visit. Worldly lets you choose how precisely to log each place.

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May 26, 2026 · 2 min read

A viewer, not another dashboard

HogWatch never writes back to PostHog. That single constraint is what makes it safe to hand your analytics key to a phone app.

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May 24, 2026 · 2 min read

Beating decision fatigue on a free afternoon

The problem is rarely a lack of things to do. It is the small, draining decision of choosing one. SideQuest removes that decision.

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May 21, 2026 · 2 min read

The idea behind Flowstate Industries

Flowstate Industries is a one-person studio making small, offline-first iOS apps. Here is why it exists, and what that means for the people who use them.

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May 18, 2026 · 3 min read

Knowing what you really earn on tips

If you live on tips, your real hourly wage is surprisingly hard to see. Here is why a simple tip tracker for servers and bartenders changes that.

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May 14, 2026 · 2 min read

Checking your PostHog analytics from your phone

PostHog is excellent in a browser and clumsy on a phone. Here is the case for a native PostHog mobile client you can glance at anywhere.

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May 11, 2026 · 2 min read

A private map of everywhere you have been

A travel tracker for the places you have been, that fills in a globe as you go and keeps your history entirely on your phone.

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May 7, 2026 · 2 min read

Turning your city into real-life quests

The hardest part of doing something fun is deciding what. Here is an app that hands you real-life adventures built from the places around you.

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May 4, 2026 · 2 min read

Setting goals you will actually remember

Most goals fade because the reason behind them fades. Here is a daily goal reminder app built around your "why."

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Apr 30, 2026 · 2 min read

Splitting trip expenses without the spreadsheet

One person always fronts the group trip. Here is how to split travel expenses and see who owes whom, from a single phone and fully offline.

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