Brain in a Vat Product Studio
The studio where the tools I built for my own day become software other people can use.
Every product in the Brain in a Vat Product Studio started as a fix for a part of my own day that was just a bit worse than it ought to be. Dubs exists because I was combining text-to-speech, audio saved to iCloud, and dictated notes by hand, and losing track of which note belonged to which passage. Writ exists because my audio kept landing on the wrong device between calls. Neither began as a product. At some point I stopped treating these instances of scratching my own itch as a distraction from the work and made it another side of the work.
These products reflect the same idea behind everything I build: work should be playable. I want tools familiar and dependable enough that I can concentrate on what I'm doing without thinking about how to operate them. Dubs lets me listen to a document and capture thoughts as they come, without returning to a keyboard. Writ keeps my audio on the devices I prefer, removing an interruption I used to deal with every day. Both give me more freedom to stay with an idea.