Freya Burrell. A Fine Arts degree first, then operations, then the software. Everything here is designed before it is built, and tested against the way the work actually goes.
Furrell
Software for organisations working out of more than one building, and the apps that got built alongside it.
ScrollFreya Burrell. A Fine Arts degree first, then operations, then the software. Everything here is designed before it is built, and tested against the way the work actually goes.
App on the App Store, submitted and approved alone. One platform in private beta, two more in build.
Postgres and row-level security, Next.js on Cloudflare’s edge, Expo and React Native, and a great deal of Apps Script before any of that.
West Yorkshire. Data in the UK region, chosen on day one because it is the one decision that cannot be reversed.
Onsite · private beta
Room allocation and shift booking for organisations spread across more buildings than a spreadsheet can hold.
Open it anywhere.
Separation between organisations is a row-level security policy in Postgres, not a filter somebody has to remember. A screen with a bug returns nothing, rather than somebody else’s rota.
One person cannot be in two rooms at once — the write fails. Two people in one room is allowed, because a trainee sitting in is not a mistake.
Region fixed when the project was created. It is the first question on every security questionnaire and the only answer that cannot be changed afterwards.
Rooms retire, people deactivate, bookings cancel. Last March’s rota still points at all of them, so it still reads correctly a year later.
Book of Intentions · on the App Store
Moons, festivals and the quiet weeks between. Designed, built, submitted and shipped alone, through App Review.
It asks at the right moments.
Submitted and approved without a team to hand it to at any point.
Nothing leaves the device. No account, no analytics, no server to breach.
Every colour that carries text meets WCAG AA, in both Midnight and Parchment.
Pottable · in build
A POTS app where Basil, a potted plant, is the entire thing. Look after Basil and you are looking after yourself.
Basil is the whole app.
Bad days make him droopy and clingy, never punishing. There are no charts on the home screen, ever.
SQLite on the phone, no account, no analytics. It works on a train and in a waiting room.
A companion and a log — not medical advice. Said in onboarding, in settings, and here.
Dibs · in design
A shared list for the people you live with, where whoever does the job gets the credit. Nothing is built yet — this is the plan.
It started as a text nobody answered.
Fun, adult, equal. Never a parent-assigns-chores app, never a leaderboard on the home screen, and never the cause of an argument.
If adding a job takes longer than that it will not get used, so the home-screen widget is in version one rather than after it.
Written, specified and costed. The Pool is what gets built first. No date here on purpose — a date on a website is a promise to a stranger.
Work with Furrell
Most of this started as somebody’s frustration with a spreadsheet. If you are running several buildings off one, I would like to hear how yours works.
Or get Book of Intentions on the App Store