July 5, 2026
studio
Five apps and a services page
First real post, so a status note rather than a manifesto.
KinNoKi Labs is one person — me, Dan — building Apple-platform apps between shifts on a rural mail route. Five apps are in the works right now, at different stages: Echo, an audiobook study player; MacroMark, Apple Watch voice capture for Markdown notes; NS Marks The Spot, historical Nova Scotia maps; Turn Timer, a visual sequence timer; and Routey, offline-first route support built in my own delivery truck. Four of them have TestFlight builds running; MacroMark is still pre-TestFlight, in development toward V1.0. None are on the App Store yet — getting them there, with the review prep, metadata, and polish that takes, is the current work.
The other new thing is a services page. Building these apps meant building systems around my own repeated work first: checklists, document cleanup, release pipelines, and knowledge bases that remember what I already figured out. Small businesses drown in the same kind of repeated paperwork, so I've written up how I approach that work for other people's workflows.
If any of that is useful to you, or you just want to compare notes: [email protected].