What I’m working on
I run Fore Studio, a small product studio I started in 2020, and build Depost AI alongside it. It began as client work; these days I only ship my own products. This page is what I am actually working on right now.
Last updated September 29, 2026
Current focus
- Vitals just shipped. It is an Activity Monitor alternative for Mac that groups every process under the app it belongs to, and the first 1,000 licenses sold in eight days. Twelve releases went out in its first week.
- Flit, the dictation app that runs entirely on your Mac, was the first Mac app I sold. Every mishearing someone reports is still a fix in the next release.
- Depost AI 2 is live. It is an agent-based content team for LinkedIn that studies what performs, writes in your voice, designs the graphics, and schedules the result. Nothing publishes until you approve it.
- Rimlight, a screen-recording studio for macOS, is the next local-first Mac app under Fore Studio. One-time purchase, like Flit.
- Growing StartupBase and AcquireBase, the two web platforms that have been running for years.
- Shipping smaller tools when a daily annoyance gets loud enough. Emoji Anywhere came out of exactly that.
- Writing more about launches and the business side, less about framework tutorials.
By the numbers
Real figures, each with where it came from. Products without a verifiable number are left out rather than guessed at.
- 1,000
- licenses at $5, gone in 8 days
- 12
- releases in the first week
- 30 days
- of history per app
- 10 MB
- download
Sales from the licensing server on 29 Sep 2026; the rest from the shipped 1.1.1 build
- 99
- languages, 25 streaming
- 0.7s
- key-up to finished text
- 21 MB
- download
- 0
- servers that hear you
Measured from the shipped 1.0.2 build. Sales counts are left out until there are enough to mean something
- 1,906
- emojis
- 276
- symbols & kaomoji
- 280 KB
- packed size
- Free
- no account
Measured from the shipped extension build
- ~10,000
- listings created
- 13,500+
- users joined
- 2017
- first launched
Totals from the first version, before the 2026 rebuild
Shipped
Every launch that has a write-up, newest first.
- Introducing Vitals Vitals is out: an Activity Monitor alternative for Mac that groups every process under the app it belongs to, keeps 30 days of history, and lives in the menu bar. The first 1,000 licenses sold in eight days.
- Introducing Flit Flit is out: a private dictation app for Mac, and a local alternative to Wispr Flow. Hold a key, talk, let go, and the text is already there. Nothing leaves your Mac, one payment, launch pricing for the first 50 licenses.
- How we rebuilt Depost AI Depost AI 2 is live. Why we rebuilt a working product, and how it compares with Taplio, Kleo, and Stanley on approvals, automation, and price.
- Introducing Emoji Anywhere A free Chrome extension that brings Slack-style :shortcode: emoji to every text field on the web, plus a searchable picker in the toolbar.
- StartupBase AI Launch Assistant A short note on why StartupBase now uses an AI Launch Assistant to help founders create product launch listings faster.
- Introducing StartupBase 2 🚀 A concise founder launch story about rebuilding StartupBase with better product pages, launch visibility, discovery, and AI-assisted submissions.
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