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Extra Corporeal
Life Support

Independent development studio. We design digital products, software and interactive experiences to solve concrete problems, explore ideas and create value. Vital signs stable.

PROJECTS
11
SURFACES
Mobile · Desktop · Tools
RATE
Build
SAT
98 %
⚠ ALARM HIGH · 140 BPM140
⚠ ALARM LOW · 50 BPM50
● REC · ECLS-01 Studio status
OPERATIONAL 72 BPM · SAT 98%
Mission

Build useful, desirable and viable systems.

No grand revolutionary promise. Just software, games, tools and prototypes that do their job clearly, respect the people using them and can stand on their own economically.

Studio →
Patients in care

What we've shipped, what's coming.

From games to professional software, prototypes to public products: the catalogue moves across several surfaces. We choose the technology after the problem, not before.

Alive
Backup Factory
Reliable backup for Thunderbird
Back up, verify, restore and export Thunderbird email without entrusting your data to a remote service.
Alive
Sudoku
Classic grids and a daily challenge
Three hundred validated grids, four difficulties, free play and a daily challenge with a streak — all kept locally.
Alive
World Traversal
Aim through the planet
Point the phone into the Earth: the app computes where the ray exits and measures its accuracy against a world target.
Alive
How Old?
Guess the age, measure the gap
One photo, one age to guess and an immediate rule: every year off equals one sip. Adults only.
Alive
Mahjong
Native, readable Mahjong Solitaire
Mobile Mahjong Solitaire, from a quick 36-tile board to the 144-tile classic, designed to remain comfortable to read and tap.
Alive
Solitaires
Five classics, no distractions
Klondike, Spider, FreeCell, TriPeaks and Pyramid in one local app, with no account, ads or analytics.
Alive
Déjà que
Cinema, badly retold
Identify a film from an intentionally bad summary, at your own pace, against the clock or around one phone.
PLAYABLE MILESTONE
EmuQX10
Reviving an Epson QX-10
A C-based Epson QX-10 emulator that boots real CP/M 2.2, launches MultiFont BASIC and plays a graphical maze from 1983.
FINAL VALIDATION
Signal Tools
Inspect and merge Signal backups
Read, verify, merge and export multiple encrypted Signal backups without hiding data loss or exposing their keys.
Alive
Cache Me If You Can
Catching ephemeral web images
Capture images received by a Firefox tab on demand, even when the website later removes them from the page.
PRE-RELEASE
Les Profils de l’Histoire
Recognize 500 historical figures
One portrait, four possible identities and a difficulty curve that tightens as the player progresses.
Resus

An idea? A collaboration? A bug?

Email is fastest. We read everything, reply when we can.