usefae.com
A software studio
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.
Six 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
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 №05
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 №06
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
Four working rules
Every product here does one job for one kind of person. The roadmaps are mostly lists of things they will never do. That's what makes them good at the thing they actually do.
"One-handed, in a hurry, on a bus" isn't a nice-to-have. It's the thing that decides what gets built. Real usage conditions come first and the feature list falls out of them, not the other way around.
Rails and Hotwire on the web. Native Swift and SwiftUI on iOS, with as few dependencies as possible. The optimization is for what still compiles and runs in five years, not for what's interesting this quarter.
Launching is the cheap part. Everything Fae has shipped is still running, still getting fixed, still used by people who say directly when something is wrong. That feedback loop is the whole point.
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