Tetherly: bringing a Mac desktop to a mobile screen
A product walkthrough of a Mac host, native mobile clients and a connection the user approves.
- The everyday problem
- Sometimes the task is on your Mac while you are holding your phone. Tetherly connects a mobile device to the Mac's existing desktop.
- What you’ll explore
- A host and native clients · Pairing with approval · Two connection paths
Wrynkle: family coordination through a familiar conversation
How WhatsApp conversations and a family console support everyday coordination, and what those lessons could mean for bespoke care-administration tools.
- The everyday problem
- A parent at home needs help with an errand. An adult child elsewhere needs to understand the request, and a relative nearby needs to know whether anyone has picked it up. Wrynkle brings these everyday tasks into a shared family workflow, without making every private conversation a family update.
- What you’ll explore
- Use different interfaces for different jobs · Keep participation and sharing deliberate · Distinguish a request from a response
Remmly: from a saved link to a source you can revisit
An owned-product study of capture, processing, source-linked recall and reviewed actions, with deliberate sharing and clear control boundaries.
- The everyday problem
- Saving something and finding it later are different tasks. Remmly brings links, notes, audio and documents into a personal library, adds context during processing, and lets a person ask for a save using the part they remember.
- What you’ll explore
- Expose the gap between capture and understanding · Put evidence beside recall · Separate an answer, a change and a publication
Wrytze: from editorial review to a publishing API
A product and engineering walkthrough of editorial review, scheduled publishing and a typed content API.
- The everyday problem
- A draft is not yet a published page. Wrytze connects brand-aware drafting, human editorial review and a content interface that another website can render in its own design.
- What you’ll explore
- Keep a human checkpoint between generation and publication · Separate browsing data from article content · Keep organization authority separate from website selection
HostelSync: rent, rooms and delegated operations
How a hostel management product connects rooms, monthly dues, receipts and warden permissions.
- The everyday problem
- A room assignment, a monthly charge and a payment are related records, but they are not the same event. HostelSync brings those operational tasks together while giving wardens hostel-specific responsibilities.
- What you’ll explore
- Keep room history separate from the current assignment · Make payment allocation a stated rule · Delegate by task and hostel
AskShelf: from a physical shelf to a browser conversation
A retail product walkthrough connecting catalogs, shelf QR codes and browser-based voice assistance.
- The everyday problem
- A shopper beside a product may want a specification or a comparison without searching for the right page. AskShelf connects the physical shelf label to a mobile product page and a voice conversation grounded in the retailer’s catalog.
- What you’ll explore
- Use the product page as an inspectable entry point · Keep branch context in the product workflow · Distinguish voice processing from retained records
These are studies of datahase’s own products. We describe how they work and link to public sources; we don’t present them as client results.
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