A weekly letter from the studio - what we shipped, what we learned, what is still on the workbench. No growth hacks, no SEO bait. Just the work.
An eight-month experiment in shipping iOS apps with zero third-party telemetry. The infrastructure we had to build, the things we learned about our users from device-local logs, and why we will never go back.
Our most-loved collection manager gets a major overhaul with AI-assisted photo categorisation, an offline-first insurance report engine, and a redesigned browsing experience.
Read Dispatch ->Lessons from getting 64-voice polyphony running at sub-3ms round-trip latency on a five-year-old phone. Includes the shader we used and the mistakes we made.
Read Dispatch ->Three years of quiet iteration, two major rewrites, and a single source of truth. We open-source the tokens, the Figma library, and the rationale.
Read Dispatch ->Most privacy policies are exercises in plausible deniability. We tried to write one that reads like a manual - and explain how you can do the same.
Read Dispatch ->Powered by a tiny CoreML model we trained on 200k pantry photos. No server lookup, no analytics, no leakage of what is in your kitchen to anyone but you.
Read Dispatch ->Why we chose a small city, why we keep the team tiny, and how we manage the slow middle of product work without burning out.
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