Notes

How we build and run it.

Short case studies from the products on this site: what we built, what broke along the way, and what we kept.

postmortem.report: free checks that run on your machine

Why we built free mail and server readers that never upload what you paste, what broke on the way, and the habits we kept.

read the note → stillPUB

stillPUB: what we built as Publisher support ended

How Parallax built stillPUB, a free browser tool that opens Publisher files, what it cannot do yet, and what that says about how we run our own products.

read the note → Hundred Stories

Hundred Stories: a game built to fail on purpose

Why Parallax built a tower game with no accounts and no tracking, what the free version includes, and what it says about how we build.

read the note →

The older field notes, Apex and Genesis, live on their own pages.