01 · Deskmate

Tap it.
It answers.

A small emissive panel that clips to your monitor. You build a loop of cards; it shows one at a time, and it responds when you touch the glass.

The panel is live. Tap it.

02 · The focus timer

It does not wait for the server.

Tap to start. The timer moves the instant your finger lands, and the host reconciles afterwards.

03 · The loop

Your cards, in your order.

One loop. Each card gets a dwell, and the panel moves through them. Swipe the glass to go somewhere else in it.

04 · Faces the server draws

Weather, a feed, a price.

Drawn on the server and pushed to the panel as a finished picture, so the display spends its power on being readable rather than on fetching.

05 · Anything else

One line of curl.

A card's face is a 448×368 picture. Anything that can POST one owns a card — no SDK, no manifest, no plugin to install.

curl -X POST --data-binary @panel.png -H 'Content-Type: image/png' https://…/v1/images/TOKEN

06 · A real object

It exists. Here it is.

Every photograph on this page is the working prototype on a real desk. Nothing here is AI-generated.

The Deskmate panel on a wooden desk, its screen showing SESSION 40% USED, resets Sunday 1:40 AM, WEEKLY 19% USED, resets Wednesday 8:00 PM, and Max 5× underneath.
01 · on the desk

07 · Where it is going

Interaction arrives in three stages.

  1. Now. The focus timer answers on the device itself.
  2. Next. A tap reaches the card's source, which answers with a new picture.
  3. Later. Cards that need it respond instantly, on the device.

08 · Waitlist

It is a prototype on one desk.

There is no price yet and no ship date yet. Leave an email address and you will hear from me when that changes — once, when it does.

Before you sign up.

01 · What is it?
A small emissive panel, 448×368, that clips to a monitor and shows one card at a time. Tap it and the card responds.
02 · Is it finished?
No. It is a working prototype on one desk. The firmware, the server and the settings app all run today; manufacturing, packaging and shipping do not exist yet.
03 · What does it cost?
I do not know yet, which is why this page asks for an email address rather than a card number.
04 · When can I get one?
There is no date. Anyone who tells you a date for a prototype is guessing.
05 · What happens to my email address?
It is stored so I can tell you when there is something to tell you. It is not sold, not shared, and not used for anything else.