Inside the cloud
We build the app the platform said no to.
Phone apps, Android TV, an illustrated history of ciphers, a local research library, a visual LaTeX editor, a librarian for book files, an illustrated formula library, and a lab of smaller experiments. Each one starts with something an existing tool refuses to do, and we show the limitation, the workaround and a demo you can try.
Plex Audiobooks
Plex serves audiobooks as music albums. This app adds real chapters, on-device transcripts, smart bookmarks and spoiler-free recaps.
Blackbox TV
A native TV app for a home media server, with merged libraries, film cuts as versions and interchangeable skins over one core.
Enigma & Lorenz
From Caesar's shift to twelve Lorenz wheels and on to public keys. Twenty-four live figures show the mathematics that hid the messages, and the mathematics that exposed them.
Sorcery
Read PDFs, ebooks, Word files and web pages into one library, see how they connect, and ask questions across all of them with real page numbers.
Textery
A visual LaTeX editor: write like a word processor, get clean LaTeX and a real PDF that rebuilds as you type. Sorcery's companion.
Shelver
Sorts a messy pile of ebooks and audiobooks into the folder layout your book app expects. Files are never renamed, every move is previewed, and a run can be undone.
Mathlab
149 formulas in mathematics, physics and chemistry, each with a figure you can move, where it comes from, a worked example and hints instead of answers.
The Lab
Small experiments that explain an idea: play against game algorithms, send monkeys after Shakespeare, and see how a microphone hears a piano.
Every project begins with something a platform won't do, and a reason to want it anyway.
Native apps, real devices, used every day. No mock-ups pretending to be products.
Each case study has the gap, the drawings of how it works, and a demo in the page.