hodo hodo. Just enough.
Small, calm tools that each do one job well, and then stop. No account, no cloud, no tracking.
The apps
One pair of chopsticks. One job each.
Why hodo
Small tools, and then stop.
Hodo hodo is Japanese for “just enough”: not too much, not too little. It's the idea I build everything here around.
Most software keeps growing until it needs a manual. I'd rather make small tools that each do one job. I design them to about 80%, leave some slack, and stop. What an app won't do is written down, on purpose.
The mascot is a pair of chopsticks. They aren't a spoon, a fork or a Swiss Army knife. They're two plain sticks, and in a practised hand they do almost anything. Every hodo app is one pair of sticks with one job.
- Open it and start. No sign-up and no onboarding.
- Your work stays with you. It's saved on your device first, export is always there, and leaving never locks you out.
- Calm on screen. Warm paper, quiet ink. Nothing blinks for your attention.
- One job each. When a feature would make it something else, it doesn't go in.
Rakshit maker of hodo