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Turn messy ideas into content worth posting.
Download on theApp Storev2.6 · verified 2026-11-12A 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. Five of those apps are on the App Store, including Old Dog, a Mac learning app. In the lab: a language model trained from scratch. Have a project in mind? Blake builds for other people too.
- 7 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
Turn scattered memories into something you can actually find again.
Download on theApp Storev2.4.2 · verified 2026-11-12
Way In
Turn a messy career search into a clear way forward.
Download on theApp Storev2.4 · verified 2026-11-12
Teacher's Pet
Turn messy learning into a clear path through school.
Download on theApp Storev1.0 · verified 2026-11-10
Old Dog
Turn “I should learn that” into actually knowing it.
Download on theMac App Storev2.1 · verified 2026-11-12
Preaching to the Choir
Turn scattered thoughts into a prayer you can return to.
Download on theApp Storev2.2 · verified 2026-11-12
Dreamcatcher
Turn half-remembered dreams into words you can keep.
Download on theApp Storev2.2 · verified 2026-10-2102 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.
KOI
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 3003 The builder
Blake Taylor · founder
Laid off in July. Five apps on the App Store now.
“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 and resolving problems under pressure. 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.
Ask Blake a questionNow · 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