Exploration
A problem worth solving has been identified, but the shape of the answer has not. Most ideas stop here, and that is the point of having the stage at all.
How Labs works
Four stages, one honest label.
Everything in Labs carries the stage it is actually at. Nothing here is presented as more finished than it is.
In development
The idea has survived contact with a prototype. Work is active, the scope is still moving, and no release date is promised.
Available
Usable today, in public, with the rough edges still visible. Feedback at this stage changes the product more than at any other.
Stage 4 is leaving Labs. A project that earns its own product page, support path, and privacy policy graduates into the main portfolio and stops being an experiment.
Current projects
What the studio is actively poking at right now.
Private Image Tools
Four focused image utilities that run directly in the browser for makers and creators. Built for UV printing, resin work, and Eufy Make workflows, where sending source files to a server is a non-starter. Processing happens on your device, with no account and no upload step.
Open the tools →Octavoxx
A radio streaming product designed around simple station discovery and always-on listening. The open question is discovery: most radio apps either bury you in thousands of unsorted stations or lock you into a handful. Finding the middle is the work.
View the project →Security resources
Practical checklists and small utilities that help families and individuals improve everyday digital safety. The first written checklists are now published in the resource library; the open question is which of them are worth building into actual tools.
Read the checklists →Criteria
What makes something a Labs project.
It starts from a real annoyance
Projects here begin with something that genuinely wasted someone's time, not with an interesting technology looking for a use. If the problem cannot be described in one sentence to someone outside the studio, it is not ready.
It can be useful while small
A good Labs project is worth using in its first version. Ideas that only become valuable after months of infrastructure tend to stay in exploration until they can be cut down.
It respects the file and the device
Where work can happen locally, it should. Several projects exist specifically because the obvious hosted version would require handing over material that users have good reason to keep.
It is allowed to fail
Labs projects can be abandoned without ceremony. Keeping that option open is what makes it safe to try things that are unlikely to work, which is where the interesting results come from.
Have an idea worth testing?
JesterMedia welcomes focused product ideas and useful collaboration opportunities. The most useful message describes the problem and who has it — not the feature list.