An app studio

Sharp apps that each kill one annoying problem.

I ship one, then start the next. Twenty-seven live on the App Store today — built by one 20-year Navy veteran.

forgotten subscriptions✦dealership fees✦jobsite math✦hitting your protein✦counting calories✦impulse buys✦getting home safe✦HVAC field math✦voice notes you forget✦shift-swap group texts✦tracking your GLP-1✦quitting sports betting✦quitting vaping✦a cluttered camera roll✦lost cooking videos✦starting a side hustle✦finishing 75 hard✦proving your PMDD✦words that won’t stick✦RV maintenance✦welding settings✦a calm deep-sea dive✦ forgotten subscriptions✦dealership fees✦jobsite math✦hitting your protein✦counting calories✦impulse buys✦getting home safe✦HVAC field math✦voice notes you forget✦shift-swap group texts✦tracking your GLP-1✦quitting sports betting✦quitting vaping✦a cluttered camera roll✦lost cooking videos✦starting a side hustle✦finishing 75 hard✦proving your PMDD✦words that won’t stick✦RV maintenance✦welding settings✦a calm deep-sea dive✦

Beta crew

Get the next app before the App Store does.

I ship new apps all year. The crew tests each one before launch — and keeps the finished paid version free for one to three months. All I want back is what’s broken, what’s confusing, what’s missing.

First on your phoneNew apps land in your TestFlight before the App Store ever sees them.
1–3 months freeTest an app and the finished paid version is yours free for one to three months.
A straight line to meYour notes come to me, not a ticket queue. What you flag shapes what ships.

Join the crew

Drop your email and I’ll send you the next app while it’s still in testing.

You’re on the crew.

I’ll email you when the next beta opens. Watch for a TestFlight invite.

Also from the studio

The playbooks that build these apps — now your AI agent can run them.

Every app above came off the same written workflows: test it until nothing is broken, name it so people can actually find it, and fix what Apple would reject before Apple ever sees it.

I sell those workflows as skills — plain text files you drop into Claude Code, claude.ai or Codex so your agent does the job the way I do it. Every one ships with a field report: a real recorded run of it working, start to finish, that you read before you pay.

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On the shelf $9 a skill, one-time

One skill is free, so you can run it before you spend anything.

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The studio

Built with discipline.
Run like a tight ship.

PLAYRIOT is my studio. I'm Desmond Buchanan — a 20-year U.S. Navy veteran. I run on military discipline and modern tooling: AI carries the heavy lifting, while judgment, taste, and the finishing stay mine.

No team to manage, no funding to chase, no roadmap theater — just a tight loop: find a real, annoying problem, build exactly what fixes it, ship it, learn from real people, repeat.

Faith and family first. Then the work.

How I build

Focused over sprawling

A focused app you actually finish beats a big one you don't. Scope is a feature.

Real problems only

If it doesn't remove a specific, nameable friction from someone's day, I don't build it.

Ship, then learn

Real users in the App Store teach faster — and truer — than any roadmap on a whiteboard.

Discipline over hype

Twenty years of it. The unglamorous last 10% is where most apps quietly die. I finish it.

Creator Partners

You bring the viewers.
I build the apps.
We split the money.

One link in your video descriptions. Every install and every subscription dollar it brings gets tracked, and you keep 50% — for as long as those subscribers keep paying. Not a one-time fee. A split.

50/50, for lifeApple takes its 15%. We split what is left, every month.
You keep what you bringYour link is yours alone, and so is every dollar it earns.
No scripts, no minimumsThe link goes where you decide. Leave any time.
Paid monthlyBy PayPal, once your balance passes $10.

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