Software that doesn't waste your time
Bantamweight tools that punch above their weight: zero dependencies, zero network calls, one small binary that starts before you blink and phones no one — ever.
★ Main event ★
Tale of the tape
Shattercut, our video player, against a typical Electron app doing the same job.
★ Fighting weight ★
Small is a feature
Smaller than (this picture of) the Hoover Dam
It took a five-story marble monument to enumerate the dam's five features — Flood Control, Navigation, Irrigation, Water Storage, Power. Shattercut ships its one feature — it cuts video — in 406 KB, no monument required. The photo straight off the camera was 821 KB — larger than the entire app — so we squashed it to 55 KB on principle.
Lighter than the tab you'd watch it in
Shattercut plays a full movie in less memory than a browser tab spends showing you a login page.
Quieter than airplane mode
There is no network code in the binary. Nothing can send telemetry, because nothing can send anything. Your files never leave your machine.
★ How we train ★
House rules
Four rules, no exceptions. They're why the numbers above are possible.
No dependencies
Every library is somebody else's supply chain. We compile against the operating system and nothing else — what you audit is what you run.
No network
If a tool doesn't need the internet, it doesn't get the internet. Nothing is sent anywhere, because nothing can be.
One file
No installer, no background services, no registry sprawl. Copy it to run it. Delete it and it's gone without a trace.
Fast is respect
We don't build in features nobody cares about. We build in speed. Cold start is measured in milliseconds — the best splash screen is none.
★ Tonight's lineup ★
The card
Shattercut
The video player. Opens anything, starts instantly, tracks nothing. Undefeated against bloat.
Cornerman
Works your corner. A tray-sized watcher for the NZXT Kraken Elite — reads coolant temperature and pump/fan RPM and holds guarded fixed-duty control. No CAM, no account, no network, one small file.
Roost
Watches the yard. A single-window viewer for your UniFi Protect cameras — live RTSP pulled straight from the console, hardware-decoded video and audio, credentials sealed in the Windows vault. No cloud, no subscription, no phone-home. Rules the roost.
★ The undercard ★
Cornerman vs. CAM
Cornerman, our Kraken tray tool, against the software it replaces.
★ Working the corner ★
Running Cornerman
A tray tool for the 2023 NZXT Kraken Elite. No installer — four steps and you're cooling.
Quit NZXT CAM
Only one app can hold the cooler at a time. Close CAM — or anything else talking to it — before you start.
Look in the tray
Run Cornerman.exe. No window opens — it lives in the system tray, and its icon shows your live coolant temperature.
Click to control
Double-click the tray icon for the control panel; right-click it for profiles, manual duty, and Exit.
Run it at login
Optional: press Win+R, type shell:startup, and drop a shortcut to Cornerman.exe in that folder. Delete the shortcut to stop — it never adds itself.
★ Prelim bout ★
Roost vs. the Electron viewer
Roost, our native Protect viewer, against the Electron app that does the same job.