Make Your Own Tool
The tool you actually need is probably too niche for anyone to sell. Make it yourself, in an afternoon.
Somewhere between the twenty apps in the App Store that almost fit and the one you'd draw on a napkin sits the tool you actually want. It's too specific for a startup to build. It's too small for a SaaS. It's exactly the kind of thing you can make in an afternoon inside the App Factory — and keep, and adjust, and use for the next decade.
The economics of "too specific to sell"
A commercial product needs a thousand paying customers. Your ideal tool might have an audience of one — you. That's not a market failure, that's a workshop opportunity. The App Factory closes the gap between "I wish there was a thing that…" and "I made the thing".
What people actually make
A checklist that fits their exact morning. A calculator for the pricing model of one weird client. A journal shaped like the questions their therapist asks. A tracker for the one hobby that no app has ever quite got right. The Factory is agnostic — it hands you the tools and gets out of the way.
Adjust it forever
You made it. You can change it. When your life changes, the tool changes with you — because you own it as source, not as a subscription that decides when to add features.
Frequently asked
Do I need to be a developer?
You need patience and a willingness to read. The manual assumes no prior knowledge but doesn't pretend HTML is nothing. If you can edit a spreadsheet, you can edit an App Factory app.
How long does a first tool take?
A simple tracker: an hour or two, following the manual. Your third tool: an afternoon.
Can I share what I make?
Yes. Email the exported file to anyone. They double-click it. It works.
What if I break it?
Nothing breaks that a fresh export can't reset. The App Factory itself is not modified by anything you make with it.
One HTML file · MIT-licensed · works offline · nothing to install.