New Eidos — a system of organization for defining a product The Virtual Panda is a small software studio. We build and run our own products, and we help business owners work out what to build and where their process is quietly losing time.
Products
Real software with real users, not a portfolio of screenshots.
Featured
LiveOne markdown file is the complete source of truth for one unit of what you are building. A standard, a CLI, a local browser, and a registry of frameworks, all on plain files in your own repo.
An on-call phone system for small healthcare practices. Patients call the practice's normal number, the shift schedule decides who is covering, and the clinician's own phone rings.
A Chrome and Firefox extension that groups new tabs with the tab that opened them. Configurable naming, group size limits, custom rules, and a blacklist.
Services
Two engagements, both aimed at the same thing: making sure the money goes into work that was worth doing.
Work out what should actually be built, and what it will take, before the money goes into building it.
Find the repetitive, manual work inside a business and replace it with something that runs itself.
Writing
Short notes on the products, the pricing, and how the sites get built.
Five sites, all on Astro, most on Cloudflare, all costing me about nothing. Here is the setup and the couple of things I would tell past me.
ReadEvery product I have worked on eventually lost track of what it was supposed to be. Eidos is my answer to that, and the biggest thing I have put money into so far.
ReadHow I priced Care Connect against Spruce Health and the answering service, and why there is no second tier.
ReadWhether it is an idea you want scoped or a process that has stopped scaling, the first conversation costs nothing.
