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Side quests, logged in detail.

Small ideas become working apps here—sometimes useful, sometimes strange, always documented honestly from first sketch to final build.

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About the lab

Side Quest Labs is a one-person studio for turning small curiosities into working apps. Each project starts as something I want to exist, then becomes an honest record of the build—the decisions, wrong turns, fixes, and lessons between an idea and its release.

Quest log

issue #03 · 2026.09.15

In TestFlight iOS · issue 03

Palate

A real Supabase backend, a second phone in the follow graph, and the bugs that only real use ever finds.

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Previous issues

Palate wasn’t supposed to be social

How a private offline food journal became a follow-gated dining graph, running on seeded sample data in the simulator.

iOS · 2026.08.13 01

Marauder’s Map

A private travel companion that kept plans, bookings, and location-based quests together, even without a signal.

iOS · Completed · personal use

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Tabwise

A shared expense tracker that shows who paid, who owes what, and how to settle without maintaining a spreadsheet.

Concept · queued

Wishfull

One visual wishlist across every store, organized by person so gift ideas don’t disappear into messages and browser tabs.

Concept · queued

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