Apps, rebuilt properly.

We find Android apps people rely on and are quietly frustrated by, read every complaint we can find, then build the version that answers them. Every app is free.

Two developers. No investors. Everything we ship is free and paid for by advertising.

3
apps built
2
on Google Play, since 9 August
0
it will ever cost you

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pyzk on a real ZKTeco K40, and what the library does not tell you

It is the best Python library there is for these terminals and we would choose it again. These are the places where what it returns and what the terminal did are two different things.

pyzk driven against a ZKTeco K40 (firmware Ver 6.60, platform ZLM60_TFT) since 15 September, enrolments watched with a person at the terminal, a 258 student push timed six times, and three faults found on the device in the MIT alternative.
Guide

ZKTeco terminal not connecting to the PC, and the five checks that find why

The terminal is rarely the fault. The laptop usually is, and the way it fails looks like something else, so the order you check things in decides whether you fix it or change a setting that was already right.

A ZKTeco K40 on a direct cable to a Windows 11 laptop since 15 September, a connection check that walks five steps in order, a 30.2 second check cut to 2.2 seconds, and the first laptop outside the studio, which stopped at step two, was then set up from the program with one Windows prompt, and still reached the terminal after a restart.
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Twenty-three names cleared for trademark, none for a domain

The naming work was careful in one direction and blank in another, and the blank one was a tick box sitting unticked in our own document while the whole site was built on top of it.

Twenty-three names through four rounds of clearance, two finalists whose domains were registered in 2011 and 2023, and 140 replacement domains tested by RDAP.
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What we have shipped

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StudyPomo

Live on Google Play

A Pomodoro timer that keeps counting when the screen goes off.

Built against: Timers that stop counting when Android reclaims the process, losing the session.

Ponderanda app icon

Ponderanda

Live on Google Play

One arithmetic ladder a day. Five problems, one attempt, the same for everyone.

Built against: Brain-training apps cap free play at about three games a day, on top of cognitive claims the evidence does not support.

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Quilore

Live on the web

Your whole Spotify listening history, read from your own data export, in the browser.

Built against: Listening stats built on Spotify's API, which reports that a track played but never for how long, and holds only the last fifty plays.

Who is actually behind this

Adeboye Oluwatimileyin

Builds and ships the apps. Wrote StudyPomo and runs everythingabuad.com.

Moses-Azuoru George

Backend. C#, .NET, EF Core, SQL Server. Previously at ExxonMobil and Bincom ICT.

How we make money

AdMob inside the apps. This site carries no advertising yet, and when it does it will be AdSense. That is all of it. You never pay us, we never sell your data, and there is no paid tier waiting behind the free one.

Tell us what is broken.

Every app we build starts as somebody else's complaint. If something you rely on gets one specific thing wrong, we want to know what it is.

What makes a report useful

  1. One specific failure, not a general feeling. "The timer resets when I lock the screen" beats "it is buggy".
  2. What you were doing when it happened, and on what phone if you know.
  3. Whether you have seen others say it. A link to a review or a thread is worth more than anything else you can send.

We read everything. We answer when we can, and we will not add you to a mailing list. If your report becomes an app, you will see it quoted in the teardown.

What happens to it

We read it. Logged against the app it is about, so the same complaint arriving twice is visible as a pattern.
If it recurs, it becomes a teardown. One person's annoyance is an opinion. Forty is a defect.
If we can fix it, we build it. Two have got that far so far, and one of them is on the Play Store.
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