For recreational runners
Simple Feats
Log familiar routes and track personal progress without carrying a GPS tracker.
Distance, time, pace, route performance, history, a durable stopwatch, export, backup, and recovery. No account or ads.
LiveIndependent software lab
Focused products.
Deliberate engineering.
Wild Onion Labs looks for the point where a process becomes awkward, repetitive, fragile, expensive, or unnecessarily complicated. From there, we map the workflow, identify the real constraints, and design a solution for the people who actually have to use it.
Better software starts with better questions.
Current projects
Projects highlighting a clear purpose.
See the user experience, then look under the hood.
For cyclists
Simple Rides
Reliable GPS ride recording with a clean, useful history.
Tracks distance, time, speed, splits, elevation, and disclosed GPS-gap estimates while keeping ride data local.
In Beta
For service providers
Session Punch
A digitally validated punch card for prepaid services.
Scan a client pass, change a balance with explicit confirmation, and preserve an understandable permanent ledger.
In Development
Original logic puzzle
Crime Cats
Place the suspects, follow the clues, identify the culprit.
A mobile prototype with forty locally stored cases across four difficulties and direct drag-and-drop play.
In Development
Reusable Android capability
Wild Onion Handshake
QR invitations and nearby BLE sessions, without a backend.
A reusable module and test client for temporary host-authoritative sessions, approval, authenticated messages, reconnect, and resync.
Technical PrototypeSelected work
Signuma Credential Insights
Signuma Credential Insights is a data-driven credential intelligence product designed to help organizations make sense of workforce credentials, certifications, and related professional data. The work focused on turning fragmented or hard-to-use information into a clearer decision-support system through structured data, analysis, and practical presentation.
- Data-driven product thinking
- Workflow analysis
- Solution design
- Data architecture
- Professional decision-support software
Selected work
BasenGrid Teams
One team. One place for everything that keeps it moving.
A production-deployed team coordination and communications platform, developed through real-world use with the Palatine Tigersharks youth swim program.
Production deployed
Engineering capabilities
Simplicity backed by depth.
Across the lab’s projects: Android UI and lifecycle design, local persistence and migrations, foreground services, GPS recovery, BLE/GATT, QR session protocols, cryptographic message authentication, backup/restore, and deterministic testable domain logic.
Local-first where it helps. Connected where it adds value. We design core functionality to stay dependable, then add connectivity where it makes the system better.
Resilient stateReboot, reconnect, restore, and interruption behavior are designed rather than left to chance.
Responsible scopeKISS, bounded dependencies, and no feature checklist for its own sake.
Honest failureGaps, estimates, limits, and recovery paths are made visible when they matter.
Work, feedback, and support
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