Independent Software Studio

Engineering
digital
boundaries.

Zero bloat. Vanilla JS. Native architectures. We build tools that respect your attention and ship without ceremony.

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3 live products · 25k+ users across Chrome & web
25k+
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FreezeTube
Chrome Extension · 25,000+ users
LIVE
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Hafiz
Web App · AI memorization
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NCSS Gateway
Full-stack · Peer review
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25,000+ Chrome users
Zero data collection
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Fully client-side
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Open source
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Vanilla JS, no frameworks

Three tools.
Zero bloat.

Each project solves one problem precisely. Nothing more, nothing less.

Chrome Extension

FreezeTube

Surgically removes YouTube's recommendation engine and infinite scroll without touching playback. No remote config, no data leaving your machine — pure DOM surgery on install. The homepage feed stops refreshing until you decide it should.

25k+
Active users on the Chrome Web Store
Chrome Web Store
Web App · AI
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Hafiz

Memorization tooling built on linguistic NLP and acoustic parsing loops. Feed it text; it builds an adaptive retrieval schedule calibrated to your phonetic and semantic error patterns. Designed for dense verbal corpora.

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Full-Stack Platform
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NCSS Gateway

A structured peer-review platform for advanced academic essays. Organises submission pipelines, reviewer assignment, and feedback loops in one auditable interface — built for programmes from high school through postgrad.

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Blind review pipeline Configurable anonymisation at the submission and reviewer assignment layers.
Deadline enforcement Hard-gate submission windows with per-cohort overrides and full audit logging.
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Structured rubrics Criterion-level scoring grids with comment threading, exportable as CSV or PDF.
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Cohort analytics Aggregate performance dashboards with per-criterion breakdowns for instructors.

Opinions,
not defaults.

Three principles that govern every line we ship. Non-negotiable across every project.

Principle 01

Ship the smallest thing that works

Every feature is a liability until proven otherwise. We start from constraints, not capabilities — then remove anything the user doesn't reach for. A 12 KB extension beats a 2 MB one every time.

Principle 02

Own the full stack, or own nothing

Shallow abstractions create invisible failure modes. We write to the platform where we can, keep third-party surface area explicit and narrow, and don't depend on anything we can't read in an afternoon.

Principle 03

Defaults should be honest

Software that auto-opts users into tracking or engagement loops isn't neutral — it's a choice. We treat privacy as a load-bearing requirement, not a settings toggle added at the end.

Start with FreezeTube.
It's free.

Join 25,000+ people who chose to use YouTube on their own terms. No account, no sign-up — install in 30 seconds.

Add to Chrome — It's Free

No account. No sign-up. No data collected. Ever.