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A content coach for iPhone. Say a messy thought; get one angle, three hooks, a script, a caption, and a shot plan. Then record it with the teleprompter.
Download on theApp Storev0.2.3 · verified 2026-09-14A one-person software studio · Chicago
Nothing here stayed an idea.
Koinophobia Labs is Blake Taylor, building apps, websites, and AI tools from first prototype to release. Three of those apps are on the App Store. In the lab: an experimental Mac learning app with its first course built, and a language model trained from scratch. Have a project in mind? Blake builds for other people too.
- 3 apps
- on the App Store
- 1 builder
- 0 employees
- Work directly
- with the builder
01 Shipped · on the App Store now
Built by one person. Downloadable by anyone.
Create a video, remember a thought, or plan your next career move. Explore the apps and see them in action.
Forget About It
A memory journal for your wrist. Raise the Watch, say the thought, and the day writes itself back to you that evening. No account. No server.
Download on theApp Storev1.1 · verified 2026-09-10
Way In
A private career workspace. Turn the experience you actually have into a résumé a stranger can judge in six seconds, then track every application. Nothing invented.
Download on theApp Storev1.0.4 · verified 2026-09-1402 The lab · experiments with receipts
The part of the studio that isn't finished, on purpose.
Explore the experiments in progress, what works today, and what comes next.
Teacher's Pet
Mapped 1,273 · built 100A homeschool for one computer. The map covers 13 grades, 4 subjects, 52 courses, 318 units, and 1,273 objectives. The first course, Algebra Foundations, runs as a Mac app today.
macOS 0.2.0 (5) · registry v3.267.0 · Grade 7 sync evidence Sep 13KOI
Research · not useful yetA language model trained from random weights on a MacBook, on a corpus the studio owns. 298 commits, 25 versioned verdicts, most of them rejections. It cannot write a sentence yet. That is the thing being measured.
koi-0.1 · 869,504 params · perplexity 2.11 · latest verdict: bar FAILED, revertedYou Know Ball
Web demo · iOS pendingA sports-argument game where the opponent keeps score and remembers. Live as a web demo. iOS builds accepted by Apple, not yet released.
builds 26 and 27 accepted Jul 2026 · merged with Last Word Aug 30Preaching to the Choir
TestFlightKeep the things you notice and return to them later, without writing a journal entry. Available to test through TestFlight.
1.0 (66) · 543 tests, 0 failures03 The builder
Blake Taylor · founder
Laid off in July. Three apps on the App Store by September.
“The simulator votes. The device decides.”
Blake Taylor spent three years inside sportsbook operations in the sports-betting market, where the job was staying calm while thousands of things went wrong at once. When the role ended in July 2026 he started building the tools he wished he'd had, and didn't stop. He designs, writes, builds, tests, and ships everything on this site, using AI coding agents the way a woodworker uses power tools: for speed, never for judgment.
- Chicago.
- Earlham College, B.A. Global Management.
- Sports betting, sportsbook operations, three years.
04 Hire the studio
Have an idea that deserves to exist? Bring it.
Koinophobia Labs takes on outside projects that fit what it has already proven it can do.
Build the app
A native iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad, or Mac app, from first sketch to App Store review. Design, build, StoreKit, privacy, submission, the listing.
Typically six to twelve weeksProve the idea
A focused prototype of one core interaction, tested on a real device. A one-to-two-week scope is agreed before work starts; larger ideas take longer. You keep the code either way.
One to two weeksPut a model to work
An AI feature or internal tool built around your workflow, with clear checks on its output and human review where it matters.
Two to six weeksAlso in scope: sites with a point of view, product films, experimental interfaces, and automation that removes a job nobody wanted.
- Fixed price
- in writing before anything is built
- You talk to
- the person doing the work
- You own
- everything at handoff
05 Start a project
Tell me the idea. I'll tell you what it takes.
Two paragraphs are enough: what you want to exist, what exists today, and when you need it. You'll hear back from Blake within two business dayswith a real answer, including “don't build this yet” when that's the answer.
Email Blake insteadNow · from the build log
Launch day, second pass: audit fixes, one voice, and the résumé regeneratedThe rebuild is live. One studio, one domain.The rebuild reaches a pull request