Consumer commerce
Print Moments
Photo printing app for same-day Walgreens pickup, designed to help people surface strong photos quickly instead of digging through an endless camera roll.
Solana Beach Labs
Product studio for founders and teams.
Helping builders turn raw ideas into shipped products with clarity, speed, and early traction.
Studio
A small, senior product team you can plug in when you need speed, judgment, and follow through.
Direction
Clarify the problem, define the strategy, and pick the next best bets.
Build
Ship a lightweight version fast, learn from real users, and iterate with intent.
Momentum
Turn signal into product decisions, simplify systems, and keep execution moving.
Services
From early validation to production, we help you move from idea to shipped with fewer meetings and more progress.
MVPs and Prototypes
Validate quickly with a clean version one that teaches you the most.
Web and Mobile Apps
Build and ship across web, iOS, and Android with a product-first approach.
AI Leverage
Reduce daily friction with smart workflows, integrations, and lightweight AI automation.
Recent Work
Selected mobile apps spanning health and fitness, e-commerce, utilities, content, and small business workflows. Each case study below gives a quick view of what was built, who it serves, and the capabilities behind it. Reach out to discuss your project.
Content product
I Won't Die
Longevity and health insights app that turns a noisy category into a cleaner reading experience with curated news, protocol breakdowns, and practical commentary.
Performance and coaching
StayGreen
Run coaching app for runners who use WHOOP, turning recovery, sleep, strain, and recent run history into a clear daily run call with calm coaching context.
Fitness testing
Fitness Test Scorecard
Fitness test tracking app that helps people take official-style fitness tests, compare scores by age, save FitScore results, track personal bests, and retest over time.
Education and AI
PencilWise
AI handwriting helper and spelling practice app for parents, teachers, and elementary students to decode schoolwork, review tricky words, and turn corrections into positive practice.
Utility and wellness
Last Sip
Caffeine timing app that helps people decide whether it is too late for coffee, tea, energy drinks, or pre-workout, with a searchable drink library, reminders, and a Home Screen widget.
Trust and verification
stet
Document and photo proof app that creates tamper-evident records with trusted timestamps, verification receipts, and optional blockchain anchoring.
Field workflow
ProofDoc
Work proof and payments app for service pros to create estimates, capture on-site evidence, generate professional reports, and send payment requests from one workflow.
Utility and habits
Red Mode
Night utility app built around a deep red screen, guided setup, widgets, and simple automation to support calmer evening screen use and better routines after dark.
Process
A simple loop that keeps work grounded in truth: build, learn, and adjust fast.
1
Align
Define the goal, users, constraints, and what success looks like.
2
Build
Ship the smallest version that creates learning and momentum.
3
Learn
Talk to users, watch behavior, and measure the right signals.
4
Iterate
Turn insight into decisions, simplify the plan, and repeat.
The playbook behind the studio
Our approach is based on the same principles in Startup Field Guide (Revisited):
- Choose the right problem and validate it fast.
- Ship a lean first version that teaches you the most.
- Turn real user signals into clear product decisions.
- Build simple systems that keep teams moving without chaos.
Contact
Tell us what you would like to build, what is stuck, or processes you would like to improve. We will reply with clear next steps.