Keep Noodling
Creative works and small software, built after dark.
Brand, design, copy, video, motion, audio. If it needs to look, sound or read a certain way by Friday, this is the part we have been doing longest.
The boring bit, automated. Invoice chasing, scheduling, records, the thing you have been doing in a spreadsheet since 2019. Small tools that do one job and do not need a training day.
Trackers and patient systems built for the people using them, not just for compliance. Fewer tabs open. Fewer things falling through the cracks.
Habits, counts, daily rituals. Small, sharp, unglamorous things that earn a place on a home screen and keep it.
Browser and mobile, small and finished. Playable brand pieces, waiting-room distractions, teaching games that do not feel like homework.
Sites
Eyelids, tear ducts and orbit: a subspecialty most people have never heard of, reached by patients who are frightened. Conditions are explained at length and in plain language, and the way to actually make contact stays one tap away throughout.
drcatherinechow.com
Parents search for what they can see, not for the medical term. Articles are sorted by age and by symptom, in three languages, behind a search that takes “a grey patch near her eye” and returns the right answer.
littleeyes101.com
An aesthetics site in a market that mostly advertises discounts. This one leads with diagnosis: what is actually going on, what may not need treating at all, and a journal that gives the doctor room to explain.
theretreatclinic.comGames
A chess trainer that behaves like a game rather than a lesson. Five bot levels from Rookie to Master, interactive drills, and per-game missions like "castle within your first ten moves" that teach a habit instead of a rule.
makanking.netlify.app
A neon twin-stick arena where the loot is the joke. Waves, ship loadouts, and a gacha roll that decides what you fight with. Short enough to finish on a break, and picked up without a tutorial.
neongacha.netlify.appKaunter is Malay for the counter. It is the front desk, as software, in four modules you can take separately or run together.
Start with one module. Add the next when the first has earned it.
Bisik is Malay for whisper. It listens to meetings, calls and voice notes and hands back clean, searchable text.
Built for how people here actually talk: Malay and English in the same sentence, three speakers talking over each other, a fan running in the background. It timestamps who said what, pulls out the action items, and lets you search six months of calls for the one line where somebody agreed to something. Runs on recordings you already have. No new hardware, no meeting bot joining the call.
A medical tracker for people managing something long-term.
Logs symptoms, medication and readings in the few seconds a person is actually willing to spend on it, then turns months of that into something a doctor can read in one glance. The point is that patient and doctor end up talking about the same numbers instead of a memory of last Tuesday. Reminders that can be ignored without guilt, and an export that fits on one page.
A coffee tracker with opinions.
Counts cups, estimates caffeine still in your system, and tells you the hour you really should have stopped. It is a small joke that turned into a daily habit for a surprising number of people, which is roughly the whole argument for building small things.
Study tools that turn a pile of notes into a plan.
Takes the material a student already has, breaks it into a schedule that fits the weeks left, and turns the schedule into actual practice: recall prompts, spaced repetition, past-paper drills. Built around the fact that the hard part is not knowing what to study, it is starting.
Great work happens at a certain frequency. It is the frequency where the city has gone quiet, the office lights have gone home, and the noodles have not. The studio is named after what is still open at that hour, and after the shape the sound wave makes when you look at it too long: an M on the crest, a W in the reflection underneath. Midnight. Wonton. Nobody planned that. Everybody kept it.
The rest of the name is a bowl of wantan mee, which is the correct food for this hour and we will take questions later. Springy egg noodles that bounce back, the way a good idea does after the first round of feedback. Soup on the side, because some things should never touch the main dish. And the wonton itself: a small parcel of something good, wrapped carefully, handed over while it is still warm. That is not a dumpling metaphor. That is the entire business model.
We spell it wonton because that is the gwailo version, and because the domain was available. Both reasons are true. Only one of them is romantic.
Ship it before the soup goes cold.
Never trust a brief written before noon.
Pickled green chilli is a garnish, not a personality. Same goes for drop shadows.
If it doesn't bounce back after one round of feedback, it wasn't springy enough.
Soup on the side, always. Some things should never touch the main dish.
A deadline is not a vibe. But a vibe can survive a deadline.
Dry or with soup, but never wishy-washy.
The stall that's open at 3am earns your loyalty. So does the client who is.
One good joke per paragraph. The rest is just noise with sesame oil on it.
If you wouldn't eat it standing up at a roadside stall, don't ship it either.
Tell us what needs to look, sound, read, move or run. We'll bring the noodles.
Email the studioReplies after dark.
