We find apps people rely on and are quietly frustrated by, read every complaint we can find, then build the version that answers them: on Android, on the web or on Windows, wherever the problem is. Every app we publish is free.
We read the complaint record for five attendance apps on Google Play before deciding how our own attendance program keeps its register. The worst thing an attendance app can do turned out to be the commonest complaint, and most of it traces to one update.
We read the recent review record for four of the biggest brain-training apps on Google Play and the largest mental arithmetic app. Nearly half of what people complain about is paying, and almost nobody complains about the science.
We were asked what an import should do with a bad file. Before deciding, we fed it eighteen, and the dangerous ones were not the files it refused.
A Pomodoro timer that keeps counting when the screen goes off.
Built against: Timers that stop counting when Android reclaims the process, losing the session.
One arithmetic ladder a day. Five problems, one attempt, the same for everyone.
Built against: Brain-training apps cap free play at about three games a day, on top of cognitive claims the evidence does not support.
Your whole Spotify listening history, read from your own data export, in the browser.
Built against: Listening stats built on Spotify's API, which reports that a track played but never for how long, and holds only the last fifty plays.
Lecture attendance from a ZKTeco fingerprint terminal, kept on the lecturer's own computer and working with no internet.
Built against: Attendance apps that lose the register. Lost or wiped records were the commonest complaint in 178 negative reviews of five attendance apps.
Builds and ships the apps. Wrote StudyPomo and runs everythingabuad.com.
Backend. C#, .NET, EF Core, SQL Server. Previously at ExxonMobil and Bincom ICT.
AdMob inside the Android apps, and AdSense on Quilore's website once Google approves it. Herewise, the attendance program for Windows, carries no ads: it is free software, and a department that wants us to set it up pays for that work. This site carries no advertising yet, and when it does it will be AdSense. That is all of it. Using an app never costs you anything, we never sell your data, and there is no paid tier waiting behind the free one.
Every app we build starts as somebody else's complaint. If something you rely on gets one specific thing wrong, we want to know what it is.
We read everything. We answer when we can, and we will not add you to a mailing list. If your report becomes an app, you will see it quoted in the teardown.