Independent software labEst. 2022

Some ideas are too weird.Those are usually our favorites.

Object Nº 001Pokes: 00

It appears to respond to attention.

Software that made it out. And a graveyard for the rest.

The lab ↘

Selected experiments / 001—∞

Built because we could. Shipped because why not.

Experiment 001 Out in the wild

Focus Spoofer

Websites shouldn't know you left. A Chrome extension that tells pages you never switched tabs, then scrambles your fingerprint for good measure. Videos keep playing, timers keep ticking, nobody gets snitched on.

Chrome extension / Shipped
887
usersper Chrome Web Store, Oct 2026
Experiment 002 Out in the wild

cvfy.dev

Resumes are boring. Drop in a PDF, get a real website back. 41 themes, zero design skills required. We thought people deserved something better than another PDF.

Web tool / Shipped
500+
users
003

pip

See what your AI coding tools actually did.

Desktop app

Your agents work. Allegedly.

A Mac and Windows companion that reads what Claude Code and Codex already logged, shows what they shipped, and ranks you on a GitHub-verified leaderboard.

Shipped. Has bugs.Open ↗
004

Cart Guessr

Guess the grocery bill.

Web game

You don't know what milk costs.

A price-guessing game for groceries. It is harder than it should be, which says something about groceries.

ShippedOpen ↗
005

KeepAwake

Your Mac, lid closed, still awake.

macOS app

Amphetamine, minus the App Store.

A tiny menu-bar app that keeps a Mac awake, including with the lid shut. Built because the work laptop wouldn't allow an Apple ID.

ShippedOpen ↗
006

PII Redactor

Strip the personal stuff before the LLM sees it.

Web tool

It's regex. Very confident regex.

Paste a transcript, get it back without names, emails, SSNs or medical record numbers. Web UI and a JSON API.

ShippedOpen ↗
007

Blackbox

A flight recorder for astronauts.

iOS app

Planes have one. Astronauts don't.

An iPhone app that records crew vitals and events with an on-device model, for when the link to Earth drops. No cloud, because there isn't one up there.

Built. Awaiting astronauts.Open ↗
008

Resizify

Crop and resize. Nothing gets uploaded.

Web tool

An image resizer that minds its own business.

Crop, resize and export in the browser. Your photos never leave your machine.

ShippedOpen ↗
009 / Unknown

Something's cooking.

Not ready to talk about it. Probably shouldn't be building it.

010 / Open slot

Got an odd idea?

Send it over on LinkedIn. Bad ideas are welcome too.

The graveyard

R.I.P. good ideas

Not everything makes it out of the lab. Some things probably shouldn't.

Currently cooking

On the stove this week

  • Radar

    An iOS app for finding events worth leaving the house for. On TestFlight. Progress is slow but real.

  • FaceMatch

    Google Photos face grouping, but offline and on your own machine. Untested. Promising.

  • Cotype

    Autocomplete for every text field on a Mac, running locally. Private until we find out what's wrong with it.

more when it either works or explodes

The idea generator™Experiment 000

a social network that forgets everything at midnight.

probably a bad idea. built it anyway.

Have an idea that's a little out there?

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The human behind it

Abhinav is a great dev. Sources: trust me bro.

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