About Baker Ventures
Baker Ventures LLC is a one-person independent software studio. It builds small, single-purpose iOS apps and developer tools, and it publishes free, source-linked answers for each of their categories.
Being straight about the size: six of nineteen products are actually available. shipcheck ships as a Claude Code plugin, and FlirtGym, FlipStage, Hatch Window, MoveWitness and Vocabdrift are on the App Store. The other thirteen are listed on the apps page with the status of each one. Every page about an unreleased app says so.
That is relevant context rather than modesty. It tells you what to expect from support, from release cadence, and from a roadmap.
No release dates are published anywhere on this site. An app that is waiting on Apple goes on sale by itself the moment Apple approves it, Apple decides when that is, and it does not tell us in advance.
The products
| Product | What it is | Status |
|---|---|---|
| shipcheck | App Store and Play pre-submission checks for React Native and Expo, running inside Claude Code | Shipping |
| FlirtGym | Dating conversation practice for iPhone, formerly RizzMaxx | Live since 12 Aug 2026 |
| FlipStage | Two-sided presenting from one iPhone: their slide, your notes | On the App Store |
| MoveWitness | Room-by-room rental photo record and a dated PDF report | On the App Store |
| Vocabdrift | A word and its definition on the iPhone Lock Screen | On the App Store |
| Hatch Window | Streamflow, solunar windows, hatch chart and a catch log | On the App Store |
| MileTruth | A gig mileage log and true net pay after vehicle cost | With Apple for review |
| PolicyReady | Cyber-insurance control self-assessment and readiness summary | With Apple for review |
| DenialDesk | Health-insurance denial appeal letters and the appeal deadline | With Apple for review |
| Foldbook | A two-page reader for iPhone | With Apple for review |
| IOLTAlign | Three-way IOLTA trust reconciliation for solo attorneys | With Apple for review |
| NoticeGuard | Mechanics lien deadlines with the statute behind each one | With Apple for review |
| TentClock | A flip clock for a shelf, with alarms and colour scenes | With Apple for review |
| Steadychart | A symptom log and an export for an appointment | Built, not submitted |
| Rigsheet | Job management for a one-van detailing or cleaning business | Built, not submitted |
| Nearvo | A daily question for two people | Built, not submitted |
| HormoneLog | Perimenopause symptom and HRT record-keeping | Built, not submitted |
| rsuvest | One vesting schedule across every equity grant you type in | Built, not submitted |
| RiderDeck | A stage plot, input list and rider for a band, as one PDF | Built, not submitted |
The pattern
Every one of them is the same shape: one problem, named narrowly, solved without a platform around it.
Not a mileage suite — a log that shows a gig driver what the shift actually paid after the car takes its cut. Not practice-management software — a three-way trust reconciliation that ties three ledgers to the penny, or shows exactly where they do not. Not a sleep platform — a flip clock for a shelf. Not a health platform — a record of what you take and how you feel, in a form a clinician can read.
The consistent design constraint is saying what a thing is not for. Every product page here has a "who this is not for" section, because a product that claims to suit everyone is describing a category rather than a tool.
The second constraint is that a claim has to be true of the build you can install, not the one in the repository and not the next version. Where a feature is missing, the page says so.
Why the websites give everything away
Each product has a site that publishes its category's real answers, free, with sources attached and no signup: the two-rate 2026 mileage calculator, the required-reason API reference, the job pricing floor calculator, the question sets, the menopause symptom-scale explainers.
Two reasons.
The answers are useful whether or not the apps ship. Some of these products may never launch. The two-rate calculator still works, and the person who needed it still got it.
A page that only makes sense as an advert is not worth writing. The test applied to every page is whether it would still be worth reading if the product did not exist. Most of them would.
Open data
The Apple privacy-manifest SDK → npm map — all 86 SDKs on Apple's third-party requirements list mapped to the React Native and Expo packages that pull each one in, with the five required-reason API categories and all sixteen approved reason codes transcribed from Apple's rendered documentation. CC BY 4.0, corrections welcome as issues or pull requests.
Published openly because it is the kind of thing that should exist and did not, and because a dataset other people can correct stays accurate longer than one that only we can edit.
How the writing works
Everything published here follows one set of rules, which are themselves published so they can be held against us: primary sources on every claim, competitor prices from the vendor's own page with a date, no number published if it cannot be verified at source, evidence labelled by its strength, and our own products disclosed on every page they appear on — including the pages where a competitor is the better answer.
Contact
rsb.baker@gmail.com. One person, so that address reaches whoever wrote the code and whoever wrote the page.
Corrections are genuinely welcome. If a claim on any of these sites is wrong, it is a bug.
About Baker Ventures
Baker Ventures LLC is an independent software studio run by one person. It builds small, single-purpose iOS apps and developer tools, each one named narrowly: a mileage log that shows a gig driver what a shift actually paid, a three-way IOLTA reconciliation for a solo attorney, a reader that shows two pages at once, a flip clock for a shelf. The current list, with the status of each one.
Every Baker Ventures product is built on the same rule: cite the source, name the limit, and never claim an outcome the product cannot deliver. The reference material on these sites is free, needs no account, and states where each fact came from.
Questions and answers
What is Baker Ventures?
Baker Ventures LLC is an independent software studio building small, single-purpose iOS apps and developer tools. Every app does one thing, says what it is not for, and states whether you can install it yet.
Who runs Baker Ventures?
Ryan Baker, an independent developer. It is a one-person studio, which is stated plainly because it is relevant context for how much you should expect from support, roadmap and release cadence.
How many Baker Ventures apps are actually available?
Six of nineteen. shipcheck ships as a Claude Code plugin, and FlirtGym, FlipStage, Hatch Window, MoveWitness and Vocabdrift are on the App Store. The other thirteen are listed on the apps page with the status of each one.
Why do the websites give everything away for free?
Because the answers are useful whether or not the apps ever ship, and because a page that only makes sense as an advert is not worth writing. Every site publishes its category's real answers with sources attached, with no signup.
How do I contact Baker Ventures?
rsb.baker@gmail.com. It is a one-person studio, so that address reaches the person who wrote the code.
Baker Ventures. “About Baker Ventures.” Baker Ventures LLC, September 6, 2026, updated October 14, 2026. https://bakerventuresstudio.com/about/