after-hours software studio
Independent software projects by David Relich
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Solving a painful workflow problem for independent video creators, educators, and product reviewers. Turns your phone into a 4K camera for your Mac. Locally. No cloud, accounts, or analytics.
A local production hub for content creators. No account, telemetry, or cloud dependency.
sharing the journey
Today, Needle reached a milestone I’ve been working towards for a while: the desktop app is now available on macOS, Linux and Windows.
Read more →There comes a point in every hobby project when the technical challenges stop being the biggest obstacle and bureaucracy takes over. For Needlefin, a tvOS application I’ve been building alongside Needle Music, that moment arrived this week.
Read more →Needle was supposed to be a music player. Then it became a library manager. Then a backend. Then a web player. Then an infrastructure project. At this point, I've stopped pretending I know where the boundaries are.
Read more →The detective work pile claimed another victim. After spending hours scanning records into Needle’s newly born physical media archive system, I eventually stumbled upon a Madonna record that refused to cooperate with reality itself.
Read more →The barcode scanner experiment escalated quickly. What started as: “Wouldn’t it be neat if Needle could keep track of physical records too?” turned into an entire weekend of pulling vinyl records out of shelves, scanning barcodes, arguing with Discogs, rediscovering forgotten albums, and slowly realizing that physical media collections are gloriously chaotic creatures.
Read more →Through absolutely no fault of mine. There’s a very specific moment in personal projects where documentation stops being documentation and quietly turns into emotional support. It usually happens somewhere after midnight...
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