Devlog

Built in public.

One post a month, at most — what shipped, what broke, and why the spoiler boundary is a wall and not a suggestion. No hype, honest caps, same voice as the rest of this page.

Narration experimentSep 24, 2026

What does it cost to read a rabbit aloud?

Six narration models read the same passage from Alice. Listen to the samples, inspect the settings, and compare sample costs and projected listening-hour costs.

Reader designSep 11, 2026

A way back to your reading place

The reader journey rail brings nearby pages, saved passages, and Green Room conversations into one place. Explore first, move with Go, and keep a way back.

M5.9Sep 5, 2026

Point the camera at the page, or just read it out

Page Match finds your place in the ebook from a photo of the paper page, or from a few sentences read aloud. Recognition goes through our API; the matching never leaves your device.

RebrandAug 10, 2026

Becoming Green Room

We didn't plan the name on day one. Here's why we changed it mid-course, and why that's fine to admit.

M5.6Jun 30, 2026

A character who genuinely doesn't know how it ends

The Green Room shipped. It's the feature that made us rename the whole product after it.

M3Apr 22, 2026

The boundary is structural, not behavioral

The Green Room never knows more than you've read — not because we asked it nicely, but because the text past your page literally never reaches it.

M2Mar 14, 2026

The catalog is a source, not a store

Free OPDS feeds got us further than fixtures ever could — and further than we expected into bugs no test suite invents on its own.

M0Feb 3, 2026

Why we're building this

Every reader-plus-AI product either spoils you or refuses to talk. We wanted a third option — for books you already own, not a bookstore.