Service 098 of 100
Get the hobby tool built that you have searched for and never found
The Build Studio at CEOism builds the tool for your hobby that does not exist yet, the one you have searched for over years and never found, at a price you name. Every serious hobbyist hits this wall: the fermentation log you want, the model railway inventory, the birding life-list that works your way, the tool for scoring homebrew or tracking fountain pen inks. The market is too small for a company to serve, but it is exactly the right size for us. You know the hobby better than any product manager ever will, so you spec it by describing how you actually practice, and we build it precisely to that. The studio has shipped 47 live apps; the strange, specific ones are our favorites.
The 60-second version
You have searched for this tool for years. It does not exist. It could.
We build it for you: the thing you have searched for and never found, built for you.
Tell us what it is worth to you. ceoism.com/studio.
What you receive
- The tool, built exactly to how you practice your hobby
- Live on your own domain, yours alone or shared with your community
- Your data importable from the spreadsheets you have been suffering with
- Working on the device you actually use, in the field or at the bench
- Source code and full ownership, so it can never be discontinued
How it works
- 1
Tell us what you need
One email. Describe the thing in your own words, plain language is perfect, and say the number that feels fair to you.
- 2
We build, you watch it become real
We reply honestly with what your number gets, then we build. You see the live thing take shape, not a slide about it.
- 3
You name the price
The price you set is the price. When it ships, it is live on a real domain and it is yours: code, keys, everything.
Honest questions
- Is it worth building software for an audience of one?
- If the one is you and you have wanted it for years, yes. Name a number that feels fair for finally having it, and we tell you honestly what that number builds. Many great tools started as an audience of one.
- Could my hobby community use it too?
- Easily, and that choice is yours. We can build it personal-first with a multi-user door left open, so if your club or forum wants in later, opening up is a step rather than a rebuild.
- I have years of messy spreadsheet data. Can it come along?
- Yes, bring it all. Importing your existing records is part of the build, because a hobby tool without your history in it never quite feels like yours.
Name your price on this.
Tell us what you need and the number that feels fair. We answer honestly with what that number gets.
Not looking to hire anyone? If you have the knack but never had the means, CEOism will hand you a company instead.
Service 098 · three takes
The films we shoot for this one
These are the scripts we actually film, published openly. Plain text is spoken out loud. Anything in the marked panels is for the camera or the screen behind us and is never read aloud. Three takes of the same service, so we can pick the one that fits where the film is going. The first is open below. Open the other two to read them.
The tool that does not exist
Opens inside the worry this service answers, and takes its time. Made for someone who already has this problem in mind, so it fits this page and it fits an audience that already knows us.
You have searched for the same tool more times than you can remember. Different words every time. It is never there, and at some point you decided nobody builds things like that for people like you.
A tool for your hobby that does not exist yet. That is an actual line on our list, because this happens constantly.
It does not have to be a business. It can just be yours.
Describe it badly. Badly is fine.
Take two · the direct cutFilm 098 · 15 to 25 secondsSmall or not
Opens on a claim or a visible result, with the offer inside the first ten seconds. Built to be shot with a screen recording playing behind you. Made for the feed and for paid placement, where nobody was looking for us.
Read this scriptHide this script
You get an honest first reply quickly, and it will say whether this is small or not.
A tool for your hobby that does not exist yet. Built to how you actually practice, your spreadsheets imported, working on the device you use at the bench.
We have built eleven companies for strangers for nothing. Describe yours badly.
Take three · the standing offerFilm 098 · 15 to 30 secondsToo small for a company
Names the service in the first breath instead of hiding it behind a hook, then offers to build it. It puts the barriers on the floor: you name the price, and not knowing how any of it works is our job rather than yours. It also makes the promise most people never get, that we stay with the thing until it is real. Made for someone who has been carrying this idea around for a long time and needs to hear that somebody will actually take it on.
Read this scriptHide this script
A tool for your hobby that does not exist yet. That is an actual line on our list.
The market is too small for a company. It is the right size for two people.
It does not have to be a business. It can just be yours, and you name the price.
Describe it badly and we will keep asking until we have it right.
We would like to hear about it.