An independent software studio
Record systems for things worth keeping.
Tiny Forest Labs builds useful tools. No team, no funding. Just one developer, working with real constraints, shipping software that does one thing well and keeps doing it.
Two products, one experiment.
Attic
Your home's complete record.
Your home has a history: every paint color, every repair, every contractor who ever touched it. Attic keeps that record, room by room, with photos and dates, built up while you're living there. When you sell, you hand over something a buyer can actually use. Pay once. No subscription for the core app.
Coming soon for iOS and Android.
Learn about Attic →Understory
Every world has one.
LitRPG and Progression Fantasy authors build a world behind their story, the entities, the histories, the math that makes it true. Most keep it in a spreadsheet. Understory holds it beside the prose, accurate to your cursor, ready when you need it.
In alpha.
Visit Understory →Fault
NewA daily literary puzzle. Three beats of one story, find where the continuity breaks, identify the sentence, then hold your nerve or switch. Free. No account. A new story every day.
The studio
Tiny Forest Labs is a one-person software studio. I build record systems: software for keeping what's worth keeping. Attic records a home. Understory records a fictional world. More will follow.
Each one is built to do a few things well and keep doing them, without the bloat, the upsells, or the data harvesting that come with most software. If you want the longer story of how they get made, it's on the blog.
I don't make things that aren't worth paying for. When you buy, you're part of the family, not a potential mark.
Some of what I build is designed to be outgrown. When you’re ready for more than I offer, I'll tell you where to go.
Every product I build tries to be a knowledgeable friend, not a database. It knows what you need to know, tells you what you can handle yourself, tells you honestly when you need a professional, and never makes you feel stupid for not knowing. I charge once for things that cost me once, and I only charge monthly for things that cost me monthly to run. I don’t track you, I don’t hold your data hostage, and when you've outgrown what I built, I'll tell you where to go next.
From the blog
Building in public, across both products. What shipped, how it works, and what broke first.
Attic is almost ready
The home-documentation app is in the final stretch. Here's what's built, how the pricing works, and what's between here and the App Store.
June 22, 2026
Two weeks into Attic: the app that refuses to nag you
An Attic progress update. Rooms, systems, and a maintenance calendar are working, and the design has one rule that surprised me: nothing in the app is allowed to make you feel bad.
June 15, 2026
What TFL Stands For
Tiny Forest Labs is a studio now, not a single product. Here's the promise behind everything it ships: no tracking, honest pricing, and subscriptions only when the subscription actually pays for something.
June 12, 2026