Who We Are
Super Basic Studio
A one-person dev shop building better software for humans. No venture capital. No corporate parent. No growth-at-all-costs mentality. Just one developer making things that work, things that respect you, and things that don't exist to extract value from the people who use them.
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Thomas Wicker — Developer/Maker
25+ years writing software. 🫣 Decades sitting in boardrooms listening to words like "synergy" and "leverage" while building products for companies that treat users as data points. Super Basic Studio is my alternative — for you, for something better. Every product that comes out of this shop exists because I willed it to exist with buckets of coffee and optimism — which I'm usually not great at. I use my own products every day, and I build them because they serve a purpose. That purpose is not harvesting your data to resell it for profit. Ever sign up for a "free" service and get a marketing email three minutes later? It's not free. You're the product.
The Rusty Suite is my answer to software — built to respect users, listen to users, evolve for users.
It's time to take a step back to the way software used to be: personal, unique, crafted — something you actually enjoy using.
Based in Washington state. Working out of a home office with too many monitors and too many dev boards.
The Platform
RustyToolBox Is the Platform
Every app in the Rusty Suite shares the same core: Tauri 2 (Rust backendWhy Rust? → + React frontend), SQLite for local storage, and zero telemetry by default. They share a cross-app achievement system (RustyPassport), a shared notes module, and a consistent design language. Same values, different problems to solve.
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How You Can Help
No ads — ever, gross. No corporate funding. No investors with more interest in stock prices and sports cars than their products and their customers. This shop runs on people who believe in what we're building — and we need your support. Think of it this way: people superchat streamers raging at extraction shooters without a second thought. All we're asking is that same energy for someone building software that actually respects you.
Think of it like supporting an indie game dev or an open-source maintainer. These apps are my craft. If you care about software that respects people — tools built because they should exist, not because a VC funded a growth deck — then supporting the studio is what keeps it going.
Every donation goes directly into development: new features, new apps, better infrastructure, and eventually making this a full-time thing.
You're not just downloading software. You're funding a small shop that refuses to compromise on the things that matter.