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Mac apps, built with you from line one.

Mac apps, shaped together from the first line. Every club is separate: a seat here never unlocks another club's rights, and vice versa.

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Grid 2 · founder prices

One membership and one vote per slot, whatever its size.

  • 1×1

    $19

    184 of 184 left

  • 2×2

    $91.20

    9 of 9 left

  • 3×3

    $205.20

    4 of 4 left

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Block multiplier now: ×1.2

26 more sold cells until ×1.3, when one unsold 2×2 splits into singles.

Block prices rise 0.1 at every 10% step, from ×1.2 up to ×2.0, and at each step one unsold 2×2 splits into singles (a 3×3 at ×1.4, ×1.6, ×1.8 and ×2.0). The earlier you buy, the less you pay; prices never go down.

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Only here for Grid 2's apps? Supporter seats, $9A vote in this grid's app selection and, app by app, what each of its apps grants supporters. 256 of 256 seats left.Supporter seats

Supporter seats still open on earlier grids:Grid 1 · $9

Category clubs in Mac

Into one kind of app? Found its club.

Each category club runs its own grid, founders, votes and apps, often on a smaller grid that fills faster. A seat in one club never unlocks another.

More Mac clubs

Other grids you can join.

Every club is separate: its own grid, founders, votes and apps.

All clubs

An app developers' club · win, win, win

Three seats at the table. Everyone wins.

  • Founders

    You fund it, you shape it, you keep it.

    Earlier grids cost less, and every one of them gets the whole club.

  • Supporters

    Back the apps of one grid, from $9.

    The lightest way in: back exactly the apps you believe in.

  • Developers

    Get paid to build, and keep getting paid.

    The work is funded up front, by people who asked for it.

Mac block founders

This spot is for the founders who back a grid with a block.

A 2×2 or 3×3 puts your image, your name and your link here and on the grid, for as long as the club runs.

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01 · Available now

What exists today

Released apps and the exact benefit each one gives members. Every member gets every app's benefit, whichever grid they joined in.

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released Mac apps

Nothing is on the App Store yet, and we won't pretend otherwise. This grid guarantees its first app, and your membership covers every app that follows. What you can use from the moment your payment clears is listed here.

  • Every app, one payment

    This grid's guaranteed app, any surprise extras and every future app in the club, with each app's member benefit.

  • Private roadmap

    Detailed stages, old and new estimates, and the partners' weekly notes.

  • Ideas & feature requests

    Open requests, discuss them, and see which decision each one fed into.

  • One vote per poll

    Pick the next app from three candidates, then vote on name, icon and screens.

  • Beta priority

    When a prototype or closed beta is ready, founders are invited first.

  • Your slot on the grid

    A fixed square with your moderated profile, visible to every visitor.

02 · Candidate pool & this grid's guaranteed app

Three buildable ideas, one vote

Founders pick which candidate becomes this grid's guaranteed app. We may build the other two as well — sometimes all three ship. Each has a responsible partner, a scope and an estimated window.

Built in-house · outside the grids

Already in the club

Apps our team builds for this club from its first day. Every founder gets them, whichever grid they join in. They are not in any vote and take no share of grid sales; founders shape them with ideas and feedback like any app.

In-houseDiscovery

Stash

A drop shelf at the edge of your screen.

Target window
Closed beta: 2027 Q1–Q2
Confidence
Low confidence
5%
03 · Open decisions & surprise releases

Decisions happening right now

Anyone can see what is being decided and when it closes. Founders cast one vote per poll; individual votes are never published.

No open polls right now. The next one is announced in the updates feed.

Surprise releases

A grid guarantees one app; extra apps we decide to ship show up here. Every member of the club gets them at no extra cost, and they never silently replace the selected candidate.

None yet.

Per-app benefits

Every app declares its own benefit

Premium access, a member price or an offer code, defined per app, versioned and delivered through the App Store. Where nothing is decided yet, it says so.

Stash

Member benefit · v1

To be announced

Every founder of the club gets this app's member benefit, whichever grid they joined in. The type (premium access, member price or offer code, delivered through the App Store) is announced once its store/IAP plan is approved.

Not part of what you buy today. It will be announced separately, per app.

Published September 30, 2026

Production log

Public updates

Weekly member update · public summary every two weeks. Founders see the detailed weekly log, drafts and estimate history in the club.

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No public updates yet.