01 / CAPTURE
Say the small thing.
Describe the problem that belongs to your actual life—not a market segment.
A macOS app for personal software
Make the app.
Not the pitch.
Open Tohseno on your Mac. Describe the small thing that should exist. Get a native iPhone app you can actually try.
macOS 14+ · Xcode · Simulator · Apple signing for device builds
WHAT SHOULD EXIST?
Give the thought a shape.
“An app for keeping the questions I think of after meetings.”
INTENTIONCAPTURED
PROJECTORDINARY SWIFTUI
SIMULATORREADY
OUTPUT / IPHONE
MEETING NOTES
Ask later.
Why now?saved
Next stepsaved
A small app for a specific life.
OPEN THE MAC APPGIVE THE IDEA A SHAPETRY IT IN SIMULATORTAKE ANOTHER SHOT
[ 001 / THE INSTRUMENT ]
Thought in.
Artifact out.
An idea is persuasive while it lives in your head. Tohseno gives it a project, a screen, and a chance to disappoint you usefully.
02 / SHAPE
Make a project.
Tohseno works on your Mac and leaves you with an ordinary SwiftUI project.
03 / RUN
Put hands on it.
Open the result in Simulator or on your phone. Let reality interrupt the pitch.
04 / USE
Try the Tuesday.
A personal app only earns its place when it helps with a real Tuesday.
05 / JUDGE
Keep or kill.
Evolve it, publish it, or admit that the idea was nicer in the abstract.
06 / AGAIN
Take another shot.
No idea needs immunity. There is always another small app that should exist.
[ 002 / A SMALL DEMO ]
Watch the signal travel.
A deterministic walkthrough of the Mac-first workflow. It changes the display only; it does not pretend to build anything in your browser.
An app that helps me remember what I wanted to ask after a meeting.
READY FOR A SHOTMAC APP / LOCAL
intent captured
native project standing by
next: make it specific
MEETING NOTES
Ask later.
Why now?saved
Next stepsaved
A small app for a specific life.
[ 003 / SHOT LIBRARY ]
Software for actual lives.
The best use case may never become a startup. It may just make Tuesday less ridiculous.
FATHER OF TWINS
WHO ATE?
Track which twin ate, slept, and pooped—without mixing them up.
NIGHT-SHIFT NURSE
HANDOFF
Keep the details you are too tired to trust your memory with.
SMALL FARMER
WATER WALK
Know what needs water today before you walk the field.
BREATHWORK FACILITATOR
BREATHEKEEPER
Guide a room through timed breath journeys without touching your phone.
TATTOO ARTIST
INK MEMORY
Remember the healed tattoo and the ink recipe behind it.
TOURING MUSICIAN
ROOM TONE
Remember what every venue sounded like before soundcheck changed it.
[ 004 / THE CONTRACT ]
The factory is a midwife.
Not a landlord.
Tohseno can disappear. Your app should continue.
Make it yours
by making it ordinary.
Every shot lands as a normal SwiftUI project. The Mac app helps with the first mile; it does not become a proprietary runtime you have to keep renting.
OUTPUTOrdinary SwiftUI + Xcode
STRUCTUREOne repository per application
ACCOUNTNo Tohseno account required
ESCAPEContinue with any supported model—or none
FUTUREPublic registry / forking: not yet
[ 005 / START LOCAL ]
Open it on your Mac.
The first version should run close to the person who had the idea.
Install the instrument.
Read the source, verify the release, and take the first shot on your machine.
Download for macOS ↗curl -fsSL https://tohseno.com/install | sh
Requires macOS 14+ and Xcode. A free Apple Personal Team can sign a personal-device build.
LOCAL-FIRST / ACCOUNT-FREE / YOUR APP
Stop protecting
the idea. Run it.
Make this one real. Then take the next shot.