About awryLabs

awryLabs is the after-hours studio of Robert Hoekstra, a one-person operation. By day he works across law, data, and disaster; this is where that same restless attention gets pointed at making small things. The mix changes from project to project, a strategy game, a research library, a teaching tool, but the stance does not: solve a problem worth solving, finish it, and keep the people who use it out of the data-collection machine.

No funding, no ad SDKs, no roadmap to monetize an audience. Extractive software offends me more aesthetically than morally, and I would rather make one good object than ten that mine you for attention. So the things here do not track you, do not nag you into a subscription, and try to be a little strange on purpose. If a project finds an audience, fine; if it teaches me something useful, better. Most of it started as a personal itch and ended up worth letting other people use.