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Small products, made in the open.

An independent product lab in Surat, where Hussain C builds and runs his own apps, with every step on the record.

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Products

What's on the bench

Each live product has its own page, with a stage and a dated log.

Creator tools · Chrome extension and web app

Building

Altrun

Select text on any page, pick a voice, and get a post that sounds like you wrote it.

  • Chrome extension
  • Web app
  • LinkedIn
  • X
  • Threads
  • Substack

  1. Select

    Highlight a paragraph, a post or a whole thread on any page.

  2. Pick

    Choose where it's going and which of your voices should write it.

  3. Compare

    Two or three labelled drafts stream in, each with a voice-match score.

  4. Fix and insert

    Flagged phrases come with a reason and a fix. One click puts the post in the composer.

Now on Phase 3: Content workflow

In the works

Stage: Prototype

Consumer mobile app

An app for iOS and Android. Details come once it earns its own page.

In the works

Stage: Idea

Small tool for teams

A micro-SaaS for working teams. The brief is written, nothing is built yet.

Got an idea for the next one?

Every product here starts as a problem someone couldn't stop talking about. Send yours over.

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How it works

From idea to product, in five stages

Each stage has a gate. Most ideas should stop at the second one, and that's the system working.

  1. Idea

    1 in the works

    An itch worth writing down

    Something I've hit myself, or heard from three different people in the same month.

    Gate: A one-page brief. If it needs two pages, it's two ideas.

  2. Prototype

    1 in the works

    Clickable in days

    A rough version in front of people who have the problem, before any real backend.

    Gate: Ten people using it every week, or it gets switched off.

  3. Building

    Altrun is here

    One slice at a time

    Phases that each work end to end, with tests, QA and a written log at the close.

    Gate: Every phase ships something a user can touch.

  4. Launched

    Public and priced

    Monitoring on, billing on, a real support address that a person reads.

    Gate: People pay, or come back weekly without being asked.

  5. Grow or retire

    More time, or an honest ending

    Growing products get more of the week. Retired ones get a write-up, and users get their data back.

    Gate: Either way, the log says why.

Build log

What happened lately

See the full log
  1. Lab

    inventick.com goes on the record

    The lab gets a public home: its products, this log and a list for anyone who wants to hear when something ships. Built on the same stack as the products.

  2. Altrun

    Altrun phase 3 starts: the library

    Drafts now keep versions. A focus editor autosaves and lets you step back through history. Ideas and batches have tables in the database.

  3. Altrun

    Altrun phase 2 closed: voices

    Voices can be built from a LinkedIn export or a list of links, with traits you can edit. The extension gained a comment helper and one-click insert into the composer.

  4. Altrun

    The Chrome extension writes from a highlight

    Select text on any page and the side panel turns it into a post. Comment suggestions that sound machine-made are filtered out before you see them.

  5. Altrun

    Altrun web app: sign in, streamed drafts

    Accounts, a dashboard and drafts that stream in as they're written. Each user's voices, history and usage are scoped to them in the database.

Who's behind it

One person, building on his own clock

Hussain C, who runs Inventick

Hussain C

Founder, Inventick

Based in
Surat, India
Building since
2008
Also runs
Araneux Systems

I've spent 18 years building software for other people, and I still do that at Araneux Systems. Inventick is the other half: things I want to exist, built on my own clock and paid for by nobody's deadline.

Some of these will work. Most won't. The stages above are how I decide, and the log is where you can check whether I followed them.

ehussain.in Client work at Araneux

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