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.
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.
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.
