too much stuff 01
Bloated dashboards
Simple jobs buried beneath widgets, menus and configuration screens.
A pixel-art Soft Error flag waving over a photocopied city while a small crowd of pixel-face
placards bobs below. One placard is upside down. Nobody has noticed yet.
Independent software studio // status: building
Software that respects your time and your brain.
Soft Error builds focused apps, tools, datasets and AI products — and is bringing its first mobile app to the App Store and Google Play.
No bloated platforms. No engagement traps. Just useful software with a point of view.
Software that respects your time and your brain.
Independent by choice
Focused on outcomes
Built by developers
Privacy over engagement
APPS. TOOLS. DATASETS. AI. RESEARCH. SE-004 INCOMING. SHIP IT.
01 // The problem
Boring. Bloated. Everywhere.
Software got very good at looking busy. The useful bit is still in there somewhere.
too much stuff 
your data. their product. 02
Intrusive tracking
Software should help you complete the task, not study your entire life.
one size misfits all 03
Generic platforms
Built for everyone. Particularly useful to no one.
more process. less progress. 04
Endless complexity
More clicks are not the same as more capability.
ERROR: Creativity not found in dependencies.
HINT: There is another way.
02 // The rebellion
Focused. Useful. Human.
Less software. Better software. Technical quality without the machinery becoming the product.
01 No bloat
Everything has a reason to exist.
- INFO Connected
- INFO Auth OK
- WARN Slow query · 823ms
- ERROR Payment failed
No bloat
Every feature must justify its existence.
02 Focused tools
One thing. Done well.
| id | name | state | created |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | actual-row | ready | 12:42 |
| 2 | useful-data | ready | 12:43 |
| 3 | no-drama | ready | 12:44 |
Focused tools
One clear problem. Solved properly.
03 Clear purpose
Know what it does.
- remove 14 controls
- remove onboarding tour
+ keep the useful three
+ explain the default
Clear purpose
Understand what it does in under a minute.
04 Privacy over engagement
We do not need your life story.
0 trackers Nothing sent. Nothing sold.
- Today
- 0
- 30d
- 0
- All time
- 0
Privacy over engagement
Your attention is not our business model.
05 Developer-built, human-ready
CLI, API and first-class docs.
$ se init my-tool
$ se build
✓ Built in 1.42s
$ se ship --yes
Developer-built, human-ready
Proper engineering without making users learn the machinery.
03 // The work
Products, not platforms.
A small portfolio in honest states. No fake counters, inflated waitlists or launch-date astrology — and the first mobile app is on its way to the stores.
SE-001 SE–001
A focused desktop utility. Details when it earns them.
SE-002 SE–002
A small AI experiment with a strict usefulness test.
SE-003 SE–003
A compact reference dataset with provenance attached.
Explore all products → CATALOGUE SIZE: SMALL ON PURPOSE
04 // Incoming — mobile
The next release fits in your pocket.
SE-004 is the first Soft Error app headed for the App Store and Google Play. One job, one screen, works offline — a phone app that ends the visit instead of extending it.
This interface is the actual internal build, not a concept render. When the store pages go live, they will show exactly this.
NO PRE-REGISTRATION. NO WAITLIST. JUST A RELEASE.
SE-004 // INTERNAL BUILD 05 // System notes
A short operating system.
Eight principles for making software people can own, understand and leave. The terms are readable before installation.
Read the full manifesto →Delight users, not metrics.
Progress over feature count.
Make privacy the default.
Use AI where it materially helps.
Delete before adding.
Ship. Learn. Improve.
06 // Lab notes
Build in public. Think first.
Release notes, technical experiments, design decisions and failed ideas worth keeping.
A specialist retailer Retail · Search
Search that finally found the product
A retailer had the product in stock and the search box could not find it. We fixed relevance without a rebuild or a rebrand of "AI search".
Null-result searches roughly halved; the team stopped hand-curating synonym lists every Monday
A university research group Research · Data
Making a research dataset legible
A research group had brilliant data trapped in forty confusing tables. We turned the export into something a newcomer could understand by lunchtime.
A 40-table export became one documented, queryable API; onboarding a new researcher went from days to an afternoon
A B2B SaaS support team SaaS · Applied AI
The triage layer that knew when to stop
A support team wanted AI to answer tickets. The valuable part was teaching it when to refuse and hand a human the wheel.
Routine tickets resolved automatically behind a hard human-handoff rule; no confidently-wrong answers shipped to customers
Read all Lab Notes → NO THOUGHT-LEADERSHIP DETECTED
Independent by choice
Useful software. Mostly intentional.
Built by developers, shaped around humans and released when it is ready to be useful. If any of that sounds like software you would actually want, stick around — the interesting part is just starting.