Every tool on this page came out of a job at Stein & Company that nothing on the market did properly. They were built for the people in this building, and this is simply the record of them.
01 — The shop floor
Nothing here was scoped in a planning meeting. Each one started the third or fourth time somebody did the same tedious thing by hand.
Every tool went into real use within a week of working at all. The ones that stuck earned the polish shown here. Several did not stick.
These run on our machines against our own data. None of them are products, and none are waiting on a decision about becoming one.
02 — The works
WaterBoy is our own hydration app for iPhone and Mac: a tiny animated buddy who lives in a glass on your home screen, nudges you to drink, and never makes you feel bad about it. Built natively in Swift with widgets, schedule-based reminders, forgiving streaks, and private friend nudges, all with no account and no server.
HR Tracks is a cloud-based HR platform that takes the guesswork out of hiring and keeps staff records, requirements, and compliance up to date. We rebuilt their V1 into a fully responsive V2 with a streamlined data structure and full audit logging. The platform has been running on our work since 2022, with ongoing maintenance ever since.
What2Watch.io is our own movie and TV aggregator, built to take the guesswork out of what to watch next. It blends search, social following, and shareable boards into one app. Originally launched on Bubble.io, it is currently offline while we rebuild it in native Swift, relaunching in the coming weeks with watch-along and discussion features.
Also on the bench
GMatch helps Canadian businesses find and apply for grants they would otherwise miss. We were brought in midway through a stalled MVP build, finished it, then maintained and improved the platform for over a year as it grew to $50K+ MRR. With the business proven, the client migrated to a full custom stack, using the product we stabilized as the blueprint.
Latter Day Matchmaker is a free, faith-centered dating app for Latter-day Saint singles, backed by a professional matchmaking team. We took over the project in 2022, then led a full revamp and rebrand in 2023 with verified profiles, mutual matching, and live speed dating events, delivered as a website and native iOS and Android apps. We have maintained and grown the app ever since.
NOS is an AI-powered social media scheduler built for nonprofits. We were brought on to take the client's AI content generator and build it into a full platform: content creation, scheduling, and direct publishing to Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. Over 6 to 12 months of building and refining alongside the client, the product matured to the point of acquisition.
03 — In progress
Two half-built
Each is being used in rough form by the people who asked for it.
04 — Colophon
This page exists so the work is written down somewhere. If something here is useful to you, the door is open.
