Vol. VIIEst. 2019Catalogue of works

A one-person software house making considered tools for the Mac, the web & the terminal.

ShippedTidewater 2.4 — focus sessions sync across devicesBuildingKiln 1.0 release candidateWritingNotes on small, maintained softwareReadingThe Design of Everyday Things, againListeningToo much Khruangbin
§ 01

The flagships

2 plates
Plate No. 01macOS & iOS app2021 — ongoing

Tidewater

A calm focus timer that paces your day like the tide — long swells of deep work, gentle breaks in between.

Native SwiftUI, no account, no tracking. Sessions sync quietly over iCloud and end-of-day summaries arrive as a single, readable note instead of a dashboard.

Platform
macOS, iOS, watchOS
Built with
Swift, SwiftUI, CloudKit
Users
~18,000 monthly
Status
v2.4 — actively maintained
Plate No. 02Open-source CLI2023 — ongoing

Kiln

A static site generator for people who'd rather write than configure. Markdown in, fast HTML out.

Single binary, zero config, opinionated defaults. Kiln powers this site and a few hundred others — from personal blogs to documentation for small teams.

Install
brew install kiln
Built with
Rust, pulldown-cmark
GitHub
2.3k stars · 40 contributors
Status
1.0 release candidate
§ 02

Also from the workshop

4 works

Smaller products with real users — each one built to solve a problem I kept running into.

§ 03

The index

Odds & ends

Experiments, weekend tools, talks and small things worth a mention.

  1. dotfilesThe shell setup I've been sanding down since 2014.Config2014
  2. tinyrssA feed reader in a single HTML file. No server.Tool2025
  3. GrainGenerative paper textures in pure CSS and SVG filters.Experiment2024
  4. “Boring is a feature”Talk on shipping small software that lasts, given at a local meetup.Talk2025
  5. swift-tzTiny timezone helpers I got tired of rewriting.Package2023
  6. Pocket SynthA four-voice Web Audio synth you play with your keyboard.Toy2022
  7. TypesetterRaycast extension that fixes quotes, dashes and widows.Extension2024
§ 04

Field notes

All notes →
  1. On small, maintained software

    2 min

    Why I'd rather ship four tiny things that last than one big thing that rots.

§ 05

About the house

Colophon

I'm Will. willc is my studio — one person, a handful of trusted collaborators, and a stubborn belief that software should feel made, not manufactured.

I've spent the last decade building products for startups and studios, and the last few years building my own. I design in the browser, write a lot of Swift, and keep a soft spot for tools that live in the terminal.

When I take on client work it's usually one project at a time, start to finish: shaping the idea, designing it, building it and sticking around afterwards.

§ 06 — CorrespondenceSay hello →
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