21 Jul 2026
The cucumber closes the loop
The fourth Mac app is connecting project costs, bills, incoming money, and final invoicing—carefully, because money dislikes improvisation.
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Small software. Human judgment.
Augmented Arthur: Applications makes small, local-first Mac apps for independent work. Arthur designs the concepts, systems, and interfaces; AI expands how much one experienced product designer can build.
The Window holds tested, signed, notarized releases. The Workbench shows what is still in development. Every app is built with AI assistance, used and reviewed by Arthur, and never depends on sending working data to an AI service.
Beyond IO: localhost, Aerial View, card&board, and cucumber are growing into a local-first toolkit for freelancers, artists, solo developers, and other independent professionals. Aerial View organizes files and documents. card&board plans projects and connects the work with its costs. cucumber manages budgets, bills, incoming payments, and final invoices.
Each app will remain useful on its own. Together, they can exchange what they need without becoming one enormous system. Once all three are released, Aerial View, card&board, and cucumber will also be available as a discounted bundle.
DESIGNED BY ARTHUR.
BUILT WITH AI ASSISTANCE.
HUMAN IN THE MIDDLE.
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21 Jul 2026
card&board has become daily infrastructure
The private shipped app now plans the work that builds the other products—which is a rather convincing acceptance test.
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21 Jul 2026
Aerial View now backs up on exit
A real misclick exposed a missing recovery layer. Aerial View now creates a database backup automatically whenever the app exits normally.
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21 Jul 2026
IO: localhost will be free and open source
IO: localhost will be free, signed, notarized, and open source—an inspectable first release with a deliberately clear support boundary.
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FREE AND OPEN SOURCE.
IO: localhost will be AAA’s first public release.
A small native Mac utility that makes local servers visible and easy to control. It runs locally and does not send server information anywhere.
The signed and notarized app will be free to download, and its source code will be available on GitHub. Clear documentation is included and bug reports are welcome; individual setup support is not.
WATCH THE WORKBENCHThe workbench
Working software, unfinished distribution. These apps are used privately today and move to The Window only when they are ready for other people’s Macs.
DISTRIBUTION PREP
IO: localhost
A free, open-source Mac utility for seeing and controlling local servers—small, inspectable, and nearly ready to ship.
PRIVATE WORKING BUILD
Aerial View
A private working Mac app for non-destructive file curation—and proof of AI-augmented product design with human-owned decisions.
PRIVATE WORKING BUILD
card&board
A private working Mac planning app—and proof that product design authority can remain human throughout AI-assisted implementation.
IN DEVELOPMENT
cucumber
The financial completion layer for independent projects: budgets, bills, incoming money, and final invoices. In active development.
FROM PRACTICE TO TEACHING
Built in practice. Explained in public.
The lessons behind these products — what AI handled well, where it failed, what Arthur reviewed, and why certain decisions stayed human-owned — also inform Arthur’s AI tutorials and HITM Labs.
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