Cantina LabsSoftware studioWeb · macOS · iOS · Android
A software studio for the web, macOS, iOS and Android. We design and build our own products, and we take on client work to the same standard.
01Live
A long exposure on everything happening off Earth.
Thirty-one news feeds, eleven observatory image feeds, the launch schedule and eight NASA, NOAA and JPL services, gathered every few hours. It throws away the duplicates, files what is left under eleven subjects. Atom feeds and a subscribable launch calendar. No database and nothing running at request time. There is a phone app alongside it.
deepfield.news02Live
Blackjack that we can prove is fair.
No set buy-ins to, A provably fair shoe, a table that plays like the real one, live world activity tickers, 3 public leaderboards, 24 prestiges to climb and 50 levels per prestige. A currency you can only earn at the table that you can spend on prestige or customization. Ads are optional, and paid with in-game currency.
just-blackjack.com03In build
Choose what your screen is allowed to show.
A menu bar app for macOS. Pick the windows your audience may see and everything else is covered the moment it appears, live, at the compositor. The Peek Tool lets you look straight through your own cover while the room keeps seeing the blur.
blurshare.cantinalabs.dev04Early access
Every book, document and article on one shelf.
EPUB, MOBI, PDF, TXT and Markdown, plus web articles saved as clean reading text. Pages or scroll, five themes, a speed reader, and read aloud that highlights along with the voice. No account, no upload. Thousands of public domain titles are built in.
Coming soon ask for an early build
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Every one of these started as
something we wanted and
could not buy.
05In build
Notes with a model that never leaves the phone.
An offline first notebook with a chat sitting next to it. The notes are on your device and so is the language model that reads them, which is the only arrangement where “private notes” means anything. Works in airplane mode, because there is nothing to call.
Coming soon still being built
06Early access
The pagan calendar, drawn as the circle it is.
An educational app, in the running for Google’s Education Program. Festivals from several traditions laid out on a rotating wheel instead of a grid, with lore at each station.
Coming soon ask for an early build
07In build
The family cookbook, digital.
The ultimate recipe tracker. Pull recipes from the web, from books, or manually enter them. Share your cookbook with the whole family, automatically calculate calories and macros, build your shopping lists at the click of a button.
Coming soon still being built
08Early access
Learn the kana the way you’ll use it, not by chart.
Most kana apps ask you to stare at a table until it sticks. KanaType speaks first and you answer by typing what you heard, which is closer to how you will actually need to use it. Hiragana, katakana, a set of essential kanji, then words and everyday phrases.
Coming soon ask for an early build
02 / Index
Three titles have a public address. The rest are on the bench, and an address that would only 404 is worse than no address at all, so those rows say coming soon and nothing else. The stage board below says how close each one actually is.
We also have other projects, some public, some private. We’ve built tools for engineers, operations departments, small business owners, and we’re ready to build your solution. If you have something you want built, we can help you get there.
03 / Stages
01
Live
Published at deepfield.news and rebuilding itself every few hours.
02
Live
Shipped, matchmaking up, and the shoe is still provably fair.
03
In build
The cover works at the compositor. The app around it is being finished.
04
Early access
Reads everything it is meant to read. Builds go out by hand.
05
In build
The on-device model answers. The notebook around it is still moving.
06
Early access
Whole year is in and dated. Waiting on store artwork, not on code.
07
In build
The chart works. The app is being rebuilt around it rather than beside it.
08
Early access
Playable end to end. We are still tuning how hard it pushes.
09
Sketch
Our 2nd AI powered project, more information to come.
The eight titles on this page are ours end to end — chosen by us, shipped by us, answered for by us. We take outside work as well, which is what work you might want in the form below is for. Same team, same standard, either way: what is on this page is the proof of what we can build, and a commission is that turned on your problem instead of ours.
Seihon has no account and nothing to upload. Scribr runs its language model on the phone, which is the only arrangement where private notes means anything. Deep Field keeps no database at all. Where a thing can work with nothing to call, we build it so it has nothing to call.
Most studios have one word for everything they have ever made: available. We have four, the board above uses all of them, and a title only moves along it when the work moves — including backwards. You should be able to tell from the outside whether something is ready for you, and on this page you can.
Deep Field is on the web. BlurShare is native macOS. Seihon, Scribr, Timewheel, What’s For Dinner, KanaType and Just Blackjack are on iOS and Android. That is one group of people shipping to four platforms, with design and engineering at the same desk and native where native earns it.
04 / Open a tab
Bug reports, licence trouble, a question about one of the apps, or work you think fits the bench. It all goes to the same inbox and a real person reads it.