Independent app studio / Buffalo, NY —

Software, built with lake-effect intensity.

Nine products in motion — for gig drivers, Mac power users, release teams, focused minds, faith, fitness, small business, and Mac cleanup. Designed, built, and shipped from Buffalo, New York.

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01/ 04 Flagship — WheelWage
Alpha

Every offer,
priced honestly.

Gig apps show you the payout. WheelWage shows you the truth — the full route, the fuel, the taxes, the real hourly rate — in the seconds before you accept or decline.

  • /01Offer analysis, live on screen — payout, distance, and time decoded instantly.
  • /02True $/hr after fuel cost and tax set-aside, not the sticker number.
  • /03Audit-ready mileage, tracked automatically for every deduction you've earned.
Deadhead leg +2.1 mi
Tax set-aside auto
Decision in ~3s
8:24 LIVE
SPARK · DELIVERY $18.50
6.4 mi total · est. 28 min
FUEL−$1.10
TAX SET-ASIDE−$2.40
$24.10/hr Worth it
02/ 04 Product index

Nine builds.
One obsession — useful.

01 WheelWage Earnings copilot for gig drivers — offers, mileage, fuel, and taxes decoded into one honest hourly rate. Alpha Earnings copilot for gig drivers — offers decoded into one honest hourly rate. 02 Brightside Native macOS display utility — brightness, DDC/CI monitor commands, fan presets, overlays, and emergency-safe controls. Released macOS display controls, DDC/CI, fan presets, overlays, emergency-safe controls. 03 PatchPilot Agent-assisted release operations — crash evidence, bad reviews, fix branches, tests, and store-ready packets. Prototype Crash evidence, agent fix branches, tests, and store-ready release packets. 04 CircadiaFasting Fasting tracker with live timers, metabolic phases, hydration nudges, wearables, and AI coaching. Beta Fasting timers, metabolic phases, wearables, and AI coaching. 05 Meeqat Prayer times, Qibla compass, Quran reader, Hadith library, fasting tools — on phone, watch, and widgets. Pre-production Prayer times, Qibla, Quran, Hadith — phone, watch, and widgets. 06 TaskShrink ADHD-first productivity — shrinks overwhelming tasks into next steps, with voice capture and focus blocking. In development Shrinks overwhelming tasks into next steps. Voice capture, focus blocking. 07 CellStore Inventory Local-first desktop system for phone stores — IMEI tracking, sales, repairs, barcodes, crash-safe backups. In development Local-first POS for phone stores — IMEI, repairs, crash-safe backups. 08 Zylph Fitness motivation engine — workout tracking, cravings support, and AI previews of your future physique. In development Workout tracking, cravings support, AI body-transformation previews. 09 Cupertidy Premium Mac cleanup utility concept — smart scan, cache cleanup, privacy protection, storage management, and SaaS-style pricing. Concept Premium Mac cleanup: smart scan, privacy protection, storage management.
0Products in motion
0Released / public testing
0Platforms · mobile / desktop / watch
0%Independent & self-funded
03/ 04 The studio

Built where
the weather works.

Lake-effect snow is what happens when cold air crosses warm water — ordinary ingredients, extraordinary output. That's the studio. We take everyday friction — an offer you can't price, a task you can't start, a store you can't track — and turn it into software that hits hard.

No venture mandate. No growth hacks. A small team in Buffalo shipping things we use ourselves, every single day.

/01

We are user zero

Every product starts as our own problem. We drive the gigs, run the fasts, manage the focus. If it doesn't survive our daily use, it doesn't ship.

/02

Local-first, by default

Your data lives on your device — exportable, auditable, yours. Crash-safe storage and offline operation aren't features; they're the floor.

/03

Ship early, sharpen always

Alphas in real hands beat decks in boardrooms. Feedback from actual drivers, fasters, and store owners decides what we build next.

04/ 04 Early access

Be early.

First invites go out as each beta opens — CircadiaFasting, WheelWage, and Cupertidy are next. No noise, just launches.