Case studySprite Sanctuary
A private product for eleven people.
A game my friends and I play ships with a tracker for its collectible sprites. The tracker is bad. So I built a better one.
Then I kept going — and the tracker became the place the squad actually lives: boards, trades, trash talk, a live event wire, and a clerk on duty who answers questions with receipts.
Nobody commissioned it. Eleven people needed a better tool, and it was worth doing well.
What it became
What the tracker turned into.
01Boards & leaderboard
Every player’s collection, tracked live and ranked without mercy.
02Crowns
Mastery crowns for finished lines, and a Hall of Crowns to keep the record.
03Trades
Offers, counter-offers, and a clean ledger of who owes whom.
04Trash Talk
A running room with emoji reactions and @tags — the squad’s actual chat.
05The Wire
An event ticker: every crown, trade, and death, announced as it happens.
06Head to head
Any two players, compared line by line.
07Suggestion Box
Feature requests with votes and comments — the users steer the roadmap.
08The graveyard
A death system, because the game has stakes and the record should too.
The Clerk
It has staff.
The Town Square has a clerk — an AI on duty for the squad’s questions. It answers with the live ledger in hand, a written valuation doctrine, memory of its own recent rulings, web search when a question needs the outside world, and citations when it answers. Ask it what a sprite is worth and it shows its work.
The stack
Built like a product, sized for a squad.
One hand-built page on the front. Behind it, a serverless store carrying boards, chat, trades, events, and reactions behind shared-key auth, with a single-call feed so phones stay light. A native iOS wrapper with a TestFlight pipeline is scaffolded and waiting on paperwork. The whole thing is password-gated and unlisted — it is the squad’s room, not a demo.
Research the need, design the thing, write every word, build every part, keep it alive for its users — one hand, end to end.
The point
Bring me the thing that doesn’t exist yet.
This is what the full range looks like pointed at one small, real problem. If you have one of these — a tool your team needs, a product that should exist, a question nobody has sat with — write to me.
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