Portfolio

Our work.

Original products, technical prototypes, and published engineering write-ups. Each item is labeled by origin so product work, demos, professional experience, and customer engagements stay distinct.

How to read this page

Origin labels.

  • Original product Software BakBeat Labs ships under its own brands.
  • Prototype / utility Technical demonstrations, plugins, and focused tools.
  • Case study Engineering decisions from work we can describe publicly.
  • Professional experience Anonymized prior engineering work — published only when it can be described without proprietary disclosure.
  • Customer work Client engagements — published only with permission and accurate attribution.

Original BakBeat Labs products

Applications we ship.

  1. Original product · macOS · local-first

    BakBeat

    A music library and device sync engine for collections you already own, including iPods and other players. No streaming. No subscription.

    Problem: keep ownership and device workflows with the person who has the files. Outcome: public product; library architecture documented in a case study.

    bakbeat.com Case study

  2. Original product · Apple platforms · local-first

    StylistStash

    Inventory for hairstylists. Color, backbar, and retail in one place, kept on the device.

    Problem: inventory must stay usable offline. Outcome: public product; offline sync design documented in a case study.

    styliststash.com Case study

  3. Original product · macOS · Mac App Store

    BakBeat Rescue

    Reads an iPod’s on-device database and copies tracks, playlists, and more to a Mac. No iTunes. No erase and sync.

    Problem: recover music already on a device without erase-and-sync. Outcome: public product.

    bakbeatrescue.com

  4. Original product · macOS · local-first

    ClipStitcher

    Joins .mov, .mp4, and .m4v clips into one video on your Mac. Matching streams copy through; mixed formats re-encode.

    Problem: join a handful of QuickTime clips on the Mac. Outcome: Mac app; Mac App Store listing in progress.

    ClipStitcher

Technical prototypes and utilities

Focused tools beside the products.

  • Prototype / utility

    BakBeat Transcoder

    Media format transcoder used by BakBeat.

    Source

  • Prototype / utility

    NetShift

    Windows utility for changing IP settings on network adapters.

    Source

  • Prototype / utility

    Saturday Morning Special

    Emby plugin.

    Source

  • Prototype / utility

    PlainBoard

    A local drawing tool. No account, no telemetry. Drawings stay on the device.

    Lab note

Published case studies

Engineering decisions, explained.

Long-form write-ups from original BakBeat Labs products and from anonymized professional experience. Each study states problem, constraints, approach, outcome, technologies, and origin.

  1. Case study · Original product · Local-First Architecture

    Two Stores, One Inventory

    How we built offline-first synchronization for StylistStash using separate local and cloud stores, explicit reconciliation, and conflict preservation.

    Read the case study →

  3. Case study · Professional experience · High availability

    Servers Aren't the Service

    An evidence-driven architecture review of an industrial data platform whose redundant servers did not provide a highly available service.

    Read the case study →

All case studies

Professional experience

Anonymized engineering experience.

  1. Professional experience · High availability

    Servers Aren't the Service

    An evidence-driven architecture review of an industrial data platform whose redundant servers did not provide a highly available service. The published result is the finding and the remediation design.

    Read the case study →

Further anonymized professional experience is published only when it can be described accurately, without proprietary employer systems, confidential clients, or unverified outcomes. Customer engagements, when published, are labeled separately.

Engagements

Scoped problems welcome.

For custom software, automation, or systems work with a defined scope, see Solutions or email info@bakbeatlabs.com.