A small studio making
tools for writing, listening,
and the spaces between.
A mesh of intertwined products under one roof — writing, listening, local commerce, and the spaces between. We move quickly, ship in public, and let the work argue for itself.
An audiobook + audio-drama catalog built around shared-lore universes. Listeners discover serialized fiction; creators publish to a single home rather than scattered podcast feeds.
Manuscript in, audiobook out. Multi-voice acted chapters, music bumpers, mastered audio. Indie authors ship to Audible / Apple / Spotify without hiring a studio.
Daily journaling with calendar views, weekly recaps, voice notes, and an AI companion that reads what you write. The bedrock product the rest grew out of.
The original habit-building app — 250,000+ users since 2009 — brought back for 2026 as the whole loop, not a streak counter: nudges at the real moment in your own voice, the half no tracker has (what a choice costs you, and when to let it drift), and a read on what actually moves your life.
Turn a spare iPad into the calm center of the house — routines, the shared calendar, meals, the shopping list, pets, and JQ as the family assistant. No hardware to buy.
A governed family AI with age-graded oversight, plus an encrypted vault only you can read — notes, photos, and documents, sealed in your browser and copied across your own devices. Loving oversight, never surveillance; the honest version of owning your data.
Cornerstone pointed at learning: an AI tutor that teaches instead of doing the work, a records vault only you can read, spaced-repetition flashcards (in 2D and VR), read-aloud in your own voice, and hands-on science. For families who don’t trust the cloud with their kids.
A table-based writing community. Public tables, shared prompts, weekly bento collections, embeddable widgets. Writers find each other through the work, not the algorithm.
Turns your journals into personalized fiction — a metaphorical retelling of your own life that lets you see it from the outside. The bet: a story about you can change you in ways advice never could.
Record your voice and your words into time-locked capsules — delivered to the people you love on a future date, or after you’re gone. Presence that outlives the moment.
The outward-facing edge of the mesh — sibling products on their own domains, plus the HiveJournal products built to live on other people’s surfaces. Closely intertwined.
A site builder for local businesses — storefronts, bookings, and ecommerce a shop owner can stand up in an afternoon. The commerce backbone the rest of the local mesh plugs into.
The commerce engine behind MEHKO home-cook meal drops and tiny-home stays — coarse-location listings, safe just-in-time handoff, and proxy-authed orders. Powers delivered.menu.
Design a deck and get a materials estimate — the deck_estimate block that drops into any QuickSites contractor site. Design tooling that turns into a quote.
A field-capture trust layer for auto repair — the tech shows the customer the worn part before they approve, so the bill is transparent. Built by QuickSites on HiveJournal’s glasses + capture rail; a HiveJournal × QuickSites collaboration.
A hands-free store-walk copilot — the fastest route through the store, where every item sits, scan-to-confirm, and batched multi-customer picking. Live for shoppers; measured pilots for grocery delivery at fleet scale. A HiveJournal product on the shared capture rail.
An embeddable player that turns any web page into audio — a spoken summary, an explain-like-I’m-10, or a Pitch Panel — in a voice you choose. Drops onto any site with one snippet.
Send AI personas with real backstories to browse your live site toward a goal — they report, first-person, what confused them, and a human confirms every finding before it counts. Runs on any site; free to start.
DeckSketch is majority-owned by ScaleUp Software (Daniel Russo); Point Seven Studio leads its development as a minority owner.
A small team and a set of trusted contributors. The people who move the work forward across the mesh.
Founder of Point Seven Studio and the mind behind HiveJournal and the wider product mesh. Earlier, creator of HabitForge, a habit-building app used by 250,000+ people. Works across the whole stack — product design, full-stack web, and AI systems — and holds the through-line that ties the studio’s products into one honest whole.
Wrote the original React Native HiveJournal app by hand — before reaching for React Native was the obvious choice — and has re-joined Point Seven to take over and lead React Native development across its mobile apps. A senior web & mobile developer with 18+ years across a wide range of technologies: React Native and Flutter on mobile; React, Angular, and Vue on the web; Python (Django/Flask) and PHP/.NET on the back end; and, lately, AI-powered apps and agents — LLM integration, intelligent workflows, and connecting AI services to web and mobile.
One team, many surfaces. Decisions get made in the room they affect. Products earn their place in the mesh by getting used — there's no roadmap committee and no quarterly theater. The bar for shipping is the same on every surface: does it make the next thing easier.