Catalogue · Edition one · Subject to change
Apps, songs and a podcast, made for everyone and charged to nobody. A collection, because it’s a few things, and because the list will change.
For playing music with people who aren’t in the room.
Ask a mate for one part, like “bass from bar 20”. They get a link, play along to your mix on their phone, and the song grows a stitch at a time. No account needed for them.
For keeping a trip, all of it.
On The Road Trippin’
ontheroadtrippin.com
Drop a pin on every night, write the day up while you still remember it and put the photographs where they happened. Nobody sees any of it until you hand them the link.
For listening to, on a long drive.
I’ll be honest, I don’t really know how to podcast, which becomes clear pretty quickly. Each episode is a story from the road with little segments woven through it, and on the site it sits on the stops it talks about, so you can listen to a place and then go and have a look at it.
And more on the way.
That’s what’s finished, not what’s planned. There’s always something half made and a few more behind it, and when one of them works it goes up here. Until then it doesn’t exist, which is the only way I’ve found to keep the list honest.
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I spent a long time building software for businesses, which taught me a lot about how to make things and a fair bit about how not to. Most of it was good work. A lot of it was also pointed at getting money out of people one way or another, and once you notice that, you can’t really stop noticing it.
So we quit our jobs, packed two small boys into a modest little caravan and drove the whole way round Australia, clockwise, starting from Sydney one January. Long drives, short tempers and more bakeries than is medically advisable.
Somewhere along the way I wanted a poster of our trip and nothing out there did it, so I made one. Then it kept going, the way things do. Then I wanted to play music with people who weren’t in the same room, and that went exactly the same way. So now there’s a collection, and a company to hold it, which sounds a lot grander than it is.
“A really good travel site gives you stunning photography, handy tips and a soothing colour palette. Then there’s this one.”
Conditions of entry
No ads, no trial that runs out on day fourteen and no premium tier hiding the good bits. If you can open a browser, you can use it.
Your songs, your photos, your trip. Nobody sees any of it until you say so, you can take it back whenever you want, and nobody’s selling it, least of all me.
I’d rather make one thing that works than ten that sort of do. It’s all built the way I’d want it built if my own stuff was in it, which it is.
I’m not chasing it. Not in the usual sense anyway. If something costs real money to make, like a printed book, you pay for that. If you’d like to chip in, you can. And if it’s someone else’s song, they get the whole lot.