Current project
One Little Thing (找点事): one small thing a day, about two minutes long, with a painting. In development.
Dako · an independent software studio
Small, gentle apps.
We make software that asks for two minutes of your day and then leaves you alone. One Little Thing needs no app account. It keeps daily records on your phone, offers private iCloud sync when available, and can download new stories. Usage totals are a separate, optional choice. We also take on a few client projects a year.
Work with us
App design consulting, UI/UX design and full-stack engineering. By the project, by the week, or as a monthly advisor. One or two people on your project, the same people from start to finish.
How we work
One thing at a time. Daily records on your device. Paintings, not dashboards. No health claims and no promised outcomes; just small things that are nice to do.
Articles
- How Little Things is built
A preserved implementation history with the October 15, 2026 current privacy notice.
- The content pipeline
How Little Things's daily small things travel from one JSON library through review, font subsetting, composition rows, style profiles and prompt compilation to exported before/after HEIC frames, with Swift tests that keep every painting and library entry in step.
- A different painting for every small thing
How we chose dozens of ways of painting, matched each one to a small thing, and the rules every painting follows.