PhotoBooksFree · Mac, iPhone & iPadYour camera roll.
A book worth keeping.
- Runs on
- Mac · iPhone · iPad
- Price
- Free, PDF export included
- Your photos
- Stay on your device
One-person software studio · est. 2013
Well done isn't a requirement.
I'm Rokas, and Graphic Meat is me. I build small, local-first apps for Mac, iPhone and Linux, test them on camera, and publish the numbers.
Every number links to the Field Note where I measured it.
PhotoBooksFree · Mac, iPhone & iPadYour camera roll.
MailVaultmacOS, Windows & LinuxKeep the emails.
Lose the full inbox.
- Runs on
- macOS · Windows · Linux
- Built with
- Tauri v2 · Rust
- Your mail
- Plain .eml files on your disk
- Price
- Free core · paid automation
What's on the bench
What I built.
Each tool does one job. Pick the one you came for.
PhotoBooks
The memories are yours.
The layout is handled.
Choose an album from Apple Photos. PhotoBooks arranges the pages, lets you refine every detail, and exports a PDF for printing or sharing.
“I had to look hard to find the 1 or 2 images that needed manual tweaking.”
Tests with approximately 60 and 120 photos.
MailVault
Your email history.
On your own terms.
Archive IMAP email as standard .eml files on your computer. Search offline and make space on the server while keeping a local copy.
“Appreciate the work you put into this”
Feedback after help moving an archive to an external drive. The thread also discusses Gmail limits.
MeatPad
A thought today.
A project tomorrow.
Notes, Markdown and code in a local-first Mac workspace. Start simple. Go deeper when you need to.
MailMule
New email provider.
Same email history.
Preview an IMAP mailbox transfer, then move your messages. Credentials stay in memory during the job.
Explore MailMule
Shopify apps
More from your store.
Fewer moving parts.
Bundles, cart offers, popups, subscriptions and analytics from one studio. Free plans; paid pricing varies by app.
Explore the suiteHow one person ships
One person.
The whole stack.
There's no team to hand things to, so the setup does the heavy lifting. This is all of it.
- 01 · BUILD
AI writes, I decide
Agents draft features, refactors and reviews. Nothing ships until I've read it and the tests pass.
- 02 · TEST
Two test machines
A Mac mini and a Windows PC run the test suites, so my own machine stays free. Watch 589 of them on camera
- 03 · SHIP
One server
One rented server hosts the sites and services. Deploys go out from CI, not from my laptop.
- 04 · MEASURE
Numbers, not adjectives
Memory, search speed, test time. I measure it, then write it up in Field Notes.
- 05 · LISTEN
Support is me
Bug reports land in public GitHub discussions, and I answer them myself. Read the discussions
Principles: test-first · built to test · modular · KISS · SOLID · local-first
You'll be talking
to me.
Feedback shapes what ships next. You can read the conversations, including the difficult ones.
“Thank you so much for the super-fast reply. I'm blown away!”
A MailVault user reported a problem opening search results. This feedback followed my explanation and fix. Read the report, response and follow-up in the public thread.
Read the discussions
One person. Long-term thinking.
Graphic Meat has been around since 2013. I build focused tools, listen to the people using them, and keep improving them. Some apps are free and some are paid, so the studio can keep making them.
Go inside the workA question before you start?
Ask about compatibility, a feature, or something that isn’t working.