another app wants you back the article is still here the controls get out of the way
Tendril Works is a home for small, independent software projects. Not a consultancy, and not a plan to turn every idea into a platform. Just products with a job that can be explained in a sentence.
Not every product needs a feed, a streak, a recommendation engine, or a reason to send a notification. Those things can be useful. They can also become the product when all someone wanted was the tool.
The approach is straightforward: give the main action enough room, make the important settings easy to find, and don't ask for an account if the product works without one. That's a preference, not a grand theory of software.
Tether is the first project. It began with a familiar problem: opening a long article, reading the first few paragraphs, and losing the place. Its RSVP mode holds the current word in one spot. The full-page mode is always one swipe away when a paragraph needs another look.
Future Tendril Works projects may have nothing to do with reading. The common thread will be narrower than that: a real problem, existing software that does not solve it well, and a specific attempt to do better.
The boring details matter: whether a setting is named clearly, whether the app remembers where someone stopped, and whether it still works without a network connection. That's most of the work anyway.
That's the whole pitch for now.