Apps
I make a lot of apps. Each one started because something specific annoyed me and the fix didn’t exist yet.
Until now they’ve lived on my phone and the phones of a few people close to me, and I use most of them every day. Now I’m getting them ready to share with everyone. All of them are coming soon, and I’m looking for beta testers: people who’ll use one for real, tell me where it breaks, and tell me what’s confusing.
Be a beta testerSix apps · all coming soon · email jb@lot23.com
KiwiComing soon
Chat with the people around you.
Phones pass messages to each other over Bluetooth, so a crowd can talk at a festival, on a hike or in a blackout with no signal at all. Public rooms for places, no accounts, no servers, and busy rooms that stay readable.
ParlandoComing soon
Voice notes that sort themselves out by subject.
Voice Memos gives you one long list you can only search by date. Parlando transcribes everything you say and groups notes by what they're about, so the idea from last Tuesday turns up next to the one from this morning.
QuietComing soon
A mail reader for someone who finds email frightening.
A subject line is written by the sender, sometimes to provoke, and it does its damage before you've opened anything. Quiet shows a calm summary instead and keeps the email itself behind a fold you choose to open.
VolleyComing soon
A tutor who writes you a lesson every morning, and waits for your reply.
Courses fail because nobody notices when you stop. Volley sends one short lesson a day from a tutor with a name, and the next one doesn't arrive until you've written back.
ChudComing soon
Puts an app behind a Screen Time shield you have to ask to lift.
Deleting an app is too final and willpower is too weak, so the middle ground is friction. The block is the default, unlocking is a deliberate act, and it comes back on its own so you don't have to be strong twice.
CalliopeComing soon
Read the book and listen to the audiobook, and they stay in step.
Put your headphones in on the walk home and the narrator carries on from where you were reading. Open the book again and the page is waiting where the narrator stopped.