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Paroletta's daily word screen: a five by six letter grid with the guesses PORTA and TANTE scored green and grey, the Italian hint sentence Mia sorella fa la doccia ____ le mattine underneath, and an Italian keyboard tinted with the letters already ruled out.
Live

Paroletta

La parola del giorno. One Italian word a day, about thirty seconds, and something to argue about in the group chat.

Live on the web and on iOS. Android is in closed testing on Google Play.

paroletta.com

A Default Alive store screenshot headed Your startup keeps running, One real day is three months, app open or not. Below it, a pixel-art office with the team at their desks, and a report that reads You were away 24 h. 13 weeks passed. The top stories say the Q3 board deck is ready with annual revenue up 156% to $253k, a post about the company went viral, and monthly revenue passed $10k.
Live

Default Alive

Drug Wars for Silicon Valley. A startup tycoon game for iPhone. After the seed round, one real day is three months.

Public beta on TestFlight. In App Store review since October 2, 2026.

TestFlight

The Today screen of Pet Med Reminder listing doses grouped by pet: Rusty the dog has Apoquel at 14:45 already ticked off and struck through and Gabapentin 100mg at 14:50 still open, and Willow the cat has Methimazole 2.5mg at 14:50 still open.
Live

Pet Med Reminder

Which pill, which pet, and whether anybody already gave it.

On the App Store, and updated most weeks.

App Store

The Show Notes homepage, headline Read your podcasts, all of them, beside a mocked-up morning digest listing two episodes with four and six minute read times, each summarized in a paragraph with a link to listen.
Shipped, quiet

Show Notes

Podcasts are information trapped in audio. Show Notes is read-first, listen-optional.

Shipped and running at shownotes.dev. Low activity, and not this cycle's focus.

shownotes.dev

Personal projects

The Work Context Protocol homepage, headline Every session starts from scratch, unless you have WCP, above a three-minute workflow scorecard and a grid of supported clients: Claude Cowork, Claude Code, Cursor, Codex CLI, Lovable, and any MCP client.
Open source

Work Context Protocol

An open protocol for work continuity, so an AI agent starts the day knowing what happened yesterday.

Open source, with a hosted service at workcontextprotocol.io. Connecting is one command.

workcontextprotocol.io

Salotto's landing page in Italian with an English translation under every line, explaining that people meet in the evening to speak Italian for an hour, that the camera stays off, that headphones are required, and that a recording of your own voice stays on your own machine.
Live

Salotto

A room where a group speaks Italian, with bilingual captions running underneath so a missing word does not end the sentence.

The room is live at salottolang.com. The first scheduled session has not been held yet.

salottolang.com

Vine Trails showing a map of Sonoma and Napa with two winery pins dropped, and a panel below listing the trip Sonoma Fall 25 with La Crema in Windsor and Robert Mondavi Winery in Oakville.
Built, not launched

Vine Trails

Where the wine was, who you were with, and whether it was any good.

Built for iOS and in daily use on a trip. Not published to the App Store.
Filotto's calibration screen reading Tocca le parole che NON conosci, page one of eight, with a grid of Italian words to tap including two invented ones, crallarro and breccutti, and a note that there is no such thing as a wrong answer here.
Live

Filotto

Cloze drills, and a nightly chapter checked against the words you have proved you know before it is sent.

The drill is live at filottolang.com. Nightly chapters are paused, and the project is parked until October while the other two Italian products get the attention.

filottolang.com

The Short List
Private

The Short List

Compares cars on what they actually cost per month, not on the sticker price.

Private and access-controlled. There is no public link.