One person.
Fourteen small machines.

01 A small studio for specific jobs.

AW Builds is a one-person software studio run by Abhijith Warrier. There are 14 units here: twelve Android apps — 3 of them on public Google Play listings and 9 in closed testing, with Bloom also built for iOS — Sidenote, a live web/PWA notes app; and DSH Pocket, a macOS/LAN plugin for DeepSeek Harness Desktop at v0.0.6.

Each unit begins with a small, specific job — from hydration to invoicing, from a notes app to a phone-sized remote for a desktop harness — and is finished when that job is covered, the permissions are justified and the interface can explain itself.

The studio is deliberately small. No growth team, no platform ambitions, no account system looking for a reason to exist. The categories are editorial rather than store genres: they describe the job a unit does, not the store genre it sits in.

Every unit has its own site and its own policy or security model. The catalogue exists so all of it is easy to find — 33 plates and 14 records, one page per unit.

02 What everything is held to.

• Local-first by default. If a unit can work without a server, it does. When there is sync, it is optional and it is yours.
• Permissions in plain sight. Several units declare no Android permission at all. That is a design choice, not a marketing line. Every policy is linked.
• Honest interfaces. A size, a total or a reminder is shown with the arithmetic or the exact time behind it — not asserted.
• Small surface area. Fewer screens, fewer settings, fewer ways to get lost. The common case is the first thing you see.

03 14 units, 8 categories.

The catalogue is ordered by how long a unit has been in the studio, not by what might sell. A tracker, a planner and a rental register can all be useful without pretending to be the same kind of thing.

Developer tools (1)

DSH Pocket

Documents (2)

PocketPDF · ShrinkPix

Health (1)

Hydra

Home & garage (2)

ClaimCrate · GarageLog

Money (2)

SubRadar · AuraSpend

Notes (1)

Sidenote

Planning (2)

Bloom · ZenTask

Work (3)

InvoiceFlow · Timecard · Bolt

04 Two units that left Android.

Sidenote — notes on your machine

Sidenote is a private, local-first notes app that runs in the browser. Every note lives in IndexedDB, the app opens offline, and sync is optional against a Supabase you control. It is free, open source under AGPL-3.0, and the hosted app needs no account. The project site carries the privacy policy and the self-hosting guide.

DSH Pocket — the harness in your pocket

DSH Pocket is a LAN plugin for DeepSeek Harness Desktop. A small, pairing-authenticated gateway serves the real DSH web UI to a phone on the same network; sessions, approvals, diffs and the composer stay the same. It is MIT-licensed, needs no account or relay, and the security model is on the project site.

05 Built like the units: small and accountable.

This is a hand-written static site. No framework, no runtime dependencies, and one Node script that renders the pages. The type is Saira and Martian Mono, self-hosted under the SIL Open Font License. The icons and screenshots are served from this site too, and nothing is fetched from a third-party host.

This version sets no cookies and runs no analytics. It stores one preference, awb-theme, when you use the light/dark toggle. A tiny inline script applies the saved theme before paint; the main script does the rest of the interactive work: it toggles the theme, previews a unit on the bench, filters the parts list and opens the menu. Turning JavaScript off leaves the catalogue readable and every unit reachable; the filter bar is hidden, the theme toggle is hidden and all 14 units stay on the page.

The privacy page says all of this properly.

06 The rest of the work.

The personal portfolio is at abhijithwarrier.com. Code and issues live on GitHub — Sidenote is AGPL-3.0 at awbuilds/sidenote, and DSH Pocket is MIT at awbuilds/dsh-pocket. AuraSpend is AGPL-3.0 at auraspend/auraspend. For anything about a unit, write to awbuilds.support@gmail.com.