Support Me
Why I make things at all.
Traditional work and I never got on. I’m autistic, I have ADHD, and I have major PTSD, and the version of me that turns up to an office at nine and is still a functioning person at five does not exist. I tried. It went badly enough times that I stopped calling it bad luck.
So I work from home, for myself. Not because it’s a dream — because it’s the shape that actually fits. Nobody here needs me to be fine on a schedule.
Most of what I build started as something I needed and couldn’t find. An app that doesn’t autoplay at me. A mail client that doesn’t sell what’s in it. A way to check a restaurant before eating there. I build the thing that would have helped me, and then I put it out in case it helps you too.
I’m not trying to guilt you into anything. Everything I make is free or nearly free, and it stays that way whether or not you ever give me a penny. This is just the honest explanation of where it all comes from — and if you do chip in, it buys me more time to keep doing it. 🫙
Tanooki Studios
The Tip Jar · est. 2026
Where It Actually Goes
No mystery, no overheads.
There is no office, no team and no marketing budget. There is a desk, a laptop and a list of bills.
Apple's rent
$99 a year to Apple before a single person has downloaded anything. That bill arrives whether or not I shipped.
The boring monthly ones
Domains, servers, the database this very page is talking to. Small numbers that add up to the reason everything here is free.
The machine
Everything I make is built on one laptop. One day it will die, loudly, and probably at the worst moment.
Hours
The honest one. Every hour that gets funded is an hour I don't have to go and earn somewhere else, and it goes straight back into the apps.
Please Don't, If…
- money is tight. It is for a lot of people right now, and it has been for me.
- it isn't your money to give.
- you feel even slightly obliged. That's the opposite of the point.
I would genuinely rather you used the apps, got some value out of them, and told me when one of them did something stupid.
Free Ways To Help, Which Are Just As Good
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Tell one person.
Not a crowd. One person who'd actually like it. That does more than you'd think and it costs you a text message.
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Tell me what's broken.
A bug report is worth real money to me, because I cannot test eleven apps on every machine in the world by myself. Raise a ticket.
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Break an early build.
The beta crew see everything before anyone else and get a real say in what gets fixed. It costs nothing but a bit of your time. Join the beta crew.
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Leave a review when something ships.
Nothing has shipped yet. When it does, three sentences from a stranger moves the needle more than I'd like to admit.
Thank you for reading the whole page of me begging you for a slice of pizza. I just really like pizza.
That alone puts you ahead of most people. And I appreciate you caring that much.