Who's behind Lab.

Hi, I'm Akif. Lab is the catalog of small SaaS tools I've been making — every product here was designed, built, and is maintained by me. No team. No outsourcing. No content farms.

I started Lab because most modern SaaS is built for someone else: a team of ten, a series-A growth target, a category Gartner invented. I wanted tools sized for a person — calm, focused, honest about what they do. When I couldn't find them, I started writing my own. Then I shipped them. The catalog is what came out of that.

What you get

Each product on Lab is real software you log in to and use:

• Manual entry, private by default. No AI summarization, no third-party scraping, no “suggested for you.” You type what you want to remember; you keep what you typed.
• Honest scope. A coffee log doesn't become a social network in v2. A time tracker doesn't add screenshotting in v3. If a product needs to grow, I make a new one.
• Honest prices. Most products are $4/mo. The harder ones (Stack for cloud accounts, Hours for time tracking, Touch for relationships, Ledger for money) cost more because they're worth more — not because of a pricing consultant.
• Cancel anytime. Stripe Customer Portal, one click, immediate. No retention pop-ups. No “are you sure?” chain. Your data is yours.

What you don't get

• A roadmap committee. I ship the next thing when I have the next idea.
• A 14-day “free trial” that needs your credit card. Subscribe when you mean it; cancel when you don't.
• Dark patterns. There's no “wait!” modal between you and the cancel button.
• Mock urgency. No countdown timers, no “only 3 spots left,” no fake activity feeds. The number of people using Lab is whatever it is.

How I think about pricing

Most calm trackers (Reads, Bytes, Watch, Streak, Birthdays, etc.) sit at $4/month — they're focused tools that compound in value as you use them. The premium tier ($7–$19) is reserved for tools whose value is materially higher: a personal CRM where forgetting a relationship costs you, a time tracker tied to billable hours, a money tracker that prevents real losses. The price gradient is the value gradient — not the conversion-rate gradient.

Why I run it solo

Some software is better as a one-person operation. Every product on Lab is touched by exactly one person — me — which means the bar for what ships, what stays, and what gets thrown out is consistent. The downside is response times: I read every email, but I'm one person in a timezone.

Where the money goes

Subscriptions pay for hosting (Vercel, Neon, Supabase), Stripe's cut, the €19/month design tools I keep paying for, and groceries. There are no investors to satisfy. There's no exit timeline. If a product makes enough to keep running, it keeps running. If it doesn't, I'll grandfather existing subscribers and pull it from the catalog. Either way you'll hear from me.

How to reach me

Email is the fastest way. I read everything, I reply when I can.

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