usefae.com
Software, sculpted by hand
Fae is a software studio. It designs and builds web and mobile products end to end: the design, the code, the infrastructure, the words on the buttons. Then it keeps them running after they ship.
Seven products currently shown: some live and maintained, the newest still in development. Each does one job for one kind of person. They are set below at full scale: the problem, the decisions that mattered, and what each one looks like in use.
Specimen №01
Web + macOS + Windows + Linux · 2026–present · Waitlist
Printers and scales for web apps, with no one in the middle.
Local printing and USB scale reading for SaaS products: a desktop agent, server libraries, and a licensing backend that stays out of the data path. Labels print with no browser open and nobody logged in.
Specimen №02
Web · 2025–present · Live
Event logistics for people who run in-person Blood on the Clocktower games.
An events platform for in-person Blood on the Clocktower games: public signups, ordered waitlists, multi-room seating, door check-in, and post-game recaps.
№02 ↔ №03: these two talk to each other. Scan a QR code and the night's roster loads into the storyteller's iPad; when the game ends, the log flows back for recaps.
Specimen №03
iOS · 2025–present · Live
A storyteller's toolkit for running Blood on the Clocktower games.
For things the Grimoire can't track, Blocktower give storytellers vote counts and tracking, dead votes, phase management, timers and a game log at the end.
Specimen №04
Web · 2025–present · Live
Whether a piece is good enough to publish, and exactly what to fix if it isn't.
A first-pass editor for content teams: upload a document, or fifty, and get an accept, revise, or reject verdict, scores across five quality dimensions, and three to five surgical fixes with exact locations and replacement text.
Specimen №05
iOS · 2026 · In development
Structured game state, derived from notes written in plain language.
A note-taking app for Blood on the Clocktower players that reads your free-text notes and derives who claimed what, who suspects whom, and who died when.
Specimen №06
iOS + tvOS · 2026 · In development
Four threads, one finger, and your own path as the hazard.
An arcade roguelike about flying four glowing threads in formation with a single finger, threading them through their own wake while a deck of fifty upgrade cards reshapes every run.
Specimen №07
Web · 2026 · Live
Who holds what, in a game built on not knowing.
A companion for the Dune board game that tracks the Treachery deck: what was bid, who holds what, what remains, and the cards nobody has seen.
Appendix A
The short version
A tool that should exist and doesn't, a person struggling with something clumsy, an interaction that simply wants to be made. Sparks can't be scheduled; the job is to notice them.
There's no blueprint stage. Shaping happens in a live, running thing, and the design emerges while the material is being worked. Closer to sculpture than engineering.
Features get built, lived with, and cut; wrong turns and abandoned pieces are part of every story here. Carving is how the form gets found.
No checklist decides when a piece ships; taste does. And shipping isn't the end: everything in this catalog is still on the bench, still being shaped.
Colophon
Set in Silkscreen, Libre Franklin & Fragment Mono
I've been building software professionally for a long time. Fae is the small studio where I do it now, mostly its own products, occasionally something for someone else.
The best way to judge the work is the work itself. The write-ups explain how each product was made, including the parts that were hard.
Correspondence
Fae is mostly heads-down building the things above. If you'd like to say hello anyway: hello@usefae.com