These are the ventures we're building ourselves. Some become standalone businesses. Others are experiments that teach us what works. Every project feeds back into what we offer our clients.
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Port Stripes
A cruise companion app built for people who take cruising seriously. Plan your cruise itineraries, manage your packing list with smart suggestions, discover port tips from a real community of cruisers, and track every expense onboard — all in a single installable PWA that works on any device.
Platform
Web · works on any device
Type
Web app
Compliance
GDPR compliant
Key Features
Itinerary planning
AI packing suggestions
Weight tracking
Community port tips
Expense tracking
What we're learning
Niche communities are massively underserved. Build the exact tool they need, ship it fast, and real users will find you.
Most founders multiply their tool stack by the number of ventures they're running. Oakbench replaces all of it — one dashboard with a portfolio quadrant matrix, unified task kanban, cross-venture CRM with automatic lifetime value tracking, content planner, cross-sell engine, and P&L analytics with CSV export. It's a clarity tool: one place to see what you're building, what's working, who's paying, and what to focus on next.
Type
SaaS
Pricing
Free
Target
Multi-venture founders
Key Features
Quadrant Matrix
Task Kanban
Customer Intelligence
Content Studio
Cross-Sell Engine
Portfolio Analytics
What we're learning
Founders don't need more tools — they need one tool that understands they're running 3 ventures at once. Most founders multiply their tool stack by the number of projects. Oakbench collapses that.
A travel-and-taste app where you tick off drinks from every country, watch your world map fill in amber as you explore, and build a personal flavor passport. Beers, spirits, and cocktails — with flavor profiles, a smart recommendation engine, and a shareable passport card. Installable as a PWA and fully usable offline.
Platform
Web PWA · any device
Database
Growing drink database
Compliance
GDPR · Age gate
Key Features
Choropleth world map
Flavor profiles
Smart recommendations
Shareable passport card
GPS Nearby drinks
Passwordless auth
What we're learning
Zero-dependency, no-build-step vanilla JS can ship a world-class app fast. Every framework you skip is a constraint you don't inherit.
A world map flower-tracking app where you log sightings from every country and watch your personal garden grow. Rate flowers on fragrance, vibrancy, and uniqueness. Your logged flowers bloom as hand-crafted pixel sprites in a living night garden. Installable as a PWA, works offline, syncs across devices.
Platform
Web PWA · any device
Database
Growing flower database
Compliance
GDPR · Netherlands law
Key Features
Choropleth world map
Pixel art garden
Botanical profiles
Smart recommendations
Shareable passport card
GPS Nearby flowers
What we're learning
The same architecture can serve completely different communities. Build the right core once, then specialise the content and design for each audience.
A brand of unique, highly detailed 3D-printed duck collectibles with historical and cultural themes. Each duck is a handcrafted art object — limited, tangible, and built to stand out on a shelf. Where niche passion meets physical product design.
Product Type
Physical collectible
Theme
Historical & cultural
Format
Limited edition
What we're learning
Physical products and digital products share the same fundamentals — find an underserved niche, obsess over quality, and let the product speak for itself.
A companion-matching platform for adventurers who want to explore remote, off-the-beaten-path destinations together. Post a trek through Patagonia, a kayak through the Norwegian fjords, or a Sahara crossing — and find like-minded travellers to share it with. Built for the kind of trip most platforms ignore.
Type
Social platform
Database
Turso (SQLite cloud)
Auth
NextAuth · Resend email
Key Features
Trip posting & browsing
Application system
Organiser dashboard
Email notifications
Public profiles
Filter by region & difficulty
What we're learning
Two-sided platforms live or die by trust. The hardest engineering problem isn't the matching — it's designing the right friction so both sides feel safe enough to commit.
A bulk custom-sock site with a fully free, client-side AI Sock Studio. Visitors drag in their company logo, the browser reads the brand colors from the pixels, and generates 6 matching knitted-sock designs instantly — no API, no cost, works offline. They can tweak patterns and download a PNG mockup, which auto-attaches to a quote request.
Type
E-commerce / B2B
Minimum order
50 pairs
Pricing
€2.85 – €6.95 / pair
Key Features
AI Sock Studio (free)
Logo color extraction
PNG mockup download
Live quote calculator
5% price-beat guarantee
24h sample promise
What we're learning
Giving the customer a real design tool — not just a mockup form — changes the conversion dynamic entirely. When they've already built it, asking for a quote is the natural next step.
A digital product currently in stealth development. We're validating the market before writing a single line of production code. Details dropping when we're ready to go public.
What we're learning
You can validate a market before writing a single line of code. Most founders skip this step.
In Development
Project Beta
An internal operations tool being built to streamline how we deliver client work. Born from real frustration with existing tools that do too much and charge too much.
What we're learning
The best tools come from scratching your own itch. We build what we wish existed.
Experiment
Project Gamma
An AI-assisted service experiment testing whether specific professional tasks can be automated to near-zero cost without sacrificing quality. Still in hypothesis mode.
What we're learning
AI doesn't replace judgment — it multiplies it. The bottleneck is always human clarity, not compute.
More Coming
Projects launch constantly here.
We move fast. Every few months something new ships. Follow along on the blog for build notes, experiments, and launch updates.
