The work that sits outside the system.

Side projects, research tools and one retired product, kept visible because a catalogue that only shows the wins is a brochure.

  • Three still running
  • One retired
  • Three merged into 1DevTool
What each experiment fed into or taught
  1. Deploy to VPS
    Deploy Handbook
    folded into, 2026 StoicVPS feeds Server Compass
  2. Write.Rocksretired 2023 taught Build the thing you are already doing by hand
  3. 1SessionTool
    1AgentBox
    1AIControl
    merged into 1DevTool
  4. Moonlit AI stands alone outside the twelve

Dotted lines are relationships, not app hand-offs.

Live, maintained, and deliberately not in the twelve.

Moonlit AI

Running2026

On-device AI bedtime stories for children, in 30 languages.

Still on the App Store and still maintained. It has nothing to do with running a company, which is why it lives here rather than in the twelve.

Feeds into nothing in the twelve; it stands alone.

StoicVPS

Running2026

Live VPS pricing and weekly automated benchmarks across ten providers.

A research tool that became a public site. It feeds Server Compass rather than competing with it.

FeedsServer Compass

Two reference sites on getting an app onto a server without a platform.

Written while building Server Compass, then folded into StoicVPS in 2026. They still bring in the people the product was made for.

Folded intoStoicVPS

The one that did not work, and what it changed.

Write.Rocks

RetiredSunset 2023

A blogging platform for developers: block editor, multi-site, built-in analytics.

Retired. It was a good product in a market that already had ten good products, and it taught the rule the rest of this list follows: build the thing you are already doing by hand.

Taughtthe rule every app since was built by

Three names retired without being failures

1SessionTool, 1AgentBox and 1AIControl shipped as separate products before it was obvious they were features. The parts worth keeping now live inside 1DevTool.

  • 1SessionToolsession persistence and orchestration
  • 1AgentBox
  • 1AIControlagent routing and approval

Merged into1DevTool

The twelve are what these experiments taught.

Each app started as a job that was being done by hand. See which ones match the jobs in front of you.

The studio’s principles are on the principles page.