Pocket Rigger

Pocket Rigger, Drop Zone: Beat Brad, and Jackpot: Shut the Box don't have much in common on the surface — a bridle rigging calculator for touring professionals, a Connect Four game built around my son, and a dice game from a beach bar in Thailand. What actually ties them together is how they started: each one began as something real in my life first, and became an app second. Nobody set out to build "a rigging calculator" or "a board game" as a product. Steve needed the math. Brad and I had a running joke that needed a home. Phuket needed a souvenir I could actually keep using.

These are side projects, built in whatever time I can carve out around a full-time software job I'm not going to get into here — this site isn't about that. The honest reason I keep building them is that I have fun doing it. Past that, what I do want it to be about is caring, at a small scale, about software that's actually well made: a calculator that gets a rigger's numbers right every time, a game that stays fun even when Chaos Mode rearranges the board, a dice game that still feels like sitting on a beach in Phuket with a cold Singha.

If you use any of these apps — found a bug, have a feature idea, or just want to say hi — reach out any time at pshaw@pocketrigger.com.