Bessta is a one person workshop. Native Mac and iOS apps, browser tools, and software for making sound. Four of them you can use today. The other four you can watch being made.
Eight projects, eight of them usable today. Each one opens into how it works and why it exists.
A Mac design tool with two halves that never get in each other's way. In Sketch you draw with rules: this edge is 40 mm, these circles share a centre, that gap follows a variable, and the drawing keeps every promise while you change it. In Design you paint what the lines make, with fills, strokes and gradients, the way an illustrator would.
Make a network, invent a currency, invite people, and start sending. iou does not decide what the points mean. Stars for chores, a travel kitty, rewards at work. The engine underneath stays the same; only the story on top changes.
Durian is seasonal, hyper-local, and sold from trucks that move. Durigo turns scattered word-of-mouth into a shared map of sightings, prices and reviews, tied to real places, so you know what is available right now, not last season.
Point several iPhones at a conversation and Locall turns them into one synchronised multi-track recorder. Each device records its own clean local track; afterwards the tracks are aligned to within a fraction of a sample and merged. No cloud, no server, no room mic compromise.
Hold a finger up to the front camera and play. Raise it for higher notes, move it sideways for louder ones, make a fist to go quiet. Five sounds, Auto-Tune for people who cannot sing either, and a Duet Mode where each hand is its own instrument.
Wire oscillators into filters, filters into maths, maths back into pitch, and listen to what falls out. Undertone is a patchable audio playground that runs entirely in the browser. No install, no DAW, no rules about what you are supposed to be making.
No start button to aim for. Press anywhere on the screen and the timer runs; press anywhere again and it stops. That is close to the whole app, and that is the point.
Roll, hold what you like, fill every box, chase the bonus. Up to eight people can share one screen or each play from their own phone in an online room, and a quiet round on your own works just as well.
Who makes all of this, and with what.
Everything here got started because I wanted the thing to exist and nobody had made it yet. Or maybe someone already had, but I wanted to make it anyways.
These are the languages and frameworks the projects above are built with, grouped by where they run.
Ideas, collaborations, a bug in something of mine, or wanting early access to whatever is next. It all lands in the same inbox, and I read it.
