Receipts
Case study: a storefront live in 23 hours, running the real product
For his own company, Pathfinder Prototyping, Tony replaced a photographed product page with a working control surface: a panel built from the shipped products' own data that a visitor can operate on a phone. First commit to live on the public domain took 23 hours, and the site drew more than 10,000 pageviews in its first three weeks.
The challenge was a sales problem, not a design one. Pathfinder Prototyping sells control surfaces: hardware panels of keys and dials that drive professional software. A photograph of one shows the hardware and nothing of the software behind it, the depth of the catalogue, or what the keys do when pressed. A visitor had no way to judge the product short of buying it.
The solution was to make the front page the device. Open pathfinderprototyping.com on a phone and the first thing on screen is a working panel. A key press opens that product's artwork. Turned sideways, the phone shows the dials, and a drag moves one with a live readout, as the hardware does. There is nothing to install and no account to create.
Built from the products
The panel's dimensions were read from 17 profiles the products ship. The 1,129 key images come from the shipped software itself, and the dials render the same layout files the products install on real hardware. Nothing on the page was drawn for the page.
One source of truth
Every number on the page, 45 products, 5,484 commands, the whole catalogue, is generated from one data file. When a product ships, the counts update with it, which is why the site has never advertised a figure it could not stand behind.
Open to inspection
Each claim on the page can be checked on the page in ten seconds: count the keys, search the catalogue, drag a dial. Tony builds the version that survives being checked, because a client's customers will check it too.
The part worth hiring is the judgment, not the speed. The decisions that made the page work were editorial ones: cut the navigation to a single press so a visitor lands on the product and not a menu, and hold the launch until every product's artwork was in place, gathered from two other machines, so no part of the catalogue looked thinner than the rest.
The last check was done by hand, on a phone, after every automated test had passed, and it caught a table that compressed instead of scrolling. He ships software only after holding it the way a customer will, and that habit is standard on client work.
A client engagement follows the same sequence: find what proves the product, build it against real data rather than a mockup, and test it on the device the customer will hold. The storefront is the public example. The customers who wrote in below are what the method looks like from the other side.
What the support inbox says
Paying customers wrote these, unprompted, within thirty days of each other. What Tony did about each one, and how fast, is the part a prospective client should read.
Thank you very much for creating and submitting the FreeCAD plugin so quickly. I'm extremely grateful and genuinely impressed by how promptly you responded to my suggestion. You have clearly put a great deal of thought into both the breadth of application support and the usability of the profiles. Thank you again for such outstanding support.An engineering shop in Dorset, UK · FreeCAD on macOS
The turnaround: the customer asked for a Mac version on a Wednesday evening, and Tony said yes within fourteen minutes. The plugin was uploaded on Friday and published the following Tuesday, and the customer bought and installed it that night. He then listed six more plugins he intends to buy and suggested KiCad, which was already in progress and published the day after.
I want to say thank you. The temps are working now, showing the nozzle and bed. I will definitely be supporting you in the future.A 3D printing user in the US · Bambu Studio on an A1 Mini
The turnaround: the customer reported the bug at 9:24 PM, and by 11:54 PM Tony had found the cause and put a test build in his inbox. His printer reports no chamber temperature, and the key had been waiting on all three temperatures. The proper release shipped a week later.
I'm happy to wait until the plugin package and direct license purchase option are ready. Please let me know when everything is available, and I'll be happy to purchase it through your website.An audio producer in South Korea · REAPER Control Room
The turnaround: the Marketplace does not sell in his country, so rather than say no, the practice is building a direct-license path that lets it say yes. He is the first customer on the list.
Receipts
Every claim on this site is backed by a marketplace listing, a repository, or a finished object you can hold. Here is a sample.
A line of 45 Stream Deck plugins for professional software: CAD, PCB design, laser control, 3D printing, and creative tools. Of those, 44 are live on the Elgato Marketplace, including the first Onshape plugin and the first functional OneNote plugin on the platform, and one more is in Elgato review. Together they carry 5,484 commands and 299 dials on one shared engine, adapted for each application. On one day in August, 18 of them cleared Elgato review and published inside fifteen minutes.
A terminal orchestrator MCP server that gives AI agents a real terminal of their own, rendered in an Electron window, with multiple tabs, live output, and interactive apps. An agent that can see its own output fixes its own mistakes faster, which is why the server exists.
25,434 photos renamed by a 4-billion-parameter vision model running on his own GPU, pipelined to 61 images a minute. He also built a 90-icon generation pipeline that drives ComfyUI and FLUX over raw HTTP with zero pip dependencies, and a phone-automation MCP server that cleaned 73 junk threads off a real handset.
A 15-tool UI-automation MCP server that lets agents drive any Windows desktop application. It finds elements, clicks, types, and reads state. It is the connective tissue for automating software that was never meant to be automated.
Decks that show the application's state. A UDP probe paints LightBurn's machine state onto the keys. KiCad shows the live PCB layer and switches pages by itself. Krita dials write absolute values with live readouts. Clipchamp gets keystrokes through WebView2 via raw window messages, and SOLIDWORKS commands route through its COM API. Every application that resists automation becomes a documented technique, and that library is what a client with stubborn software is buying.
Commissioned signage and art builds, including an eight-layer bike shop sign that combines laser-cut backing, hand-painted detail, an embedded resin-printed logo, and hidden LED neon. Five processes went into that one piece, sequenced so no layer ruins the one before it.
Pathfinder Prototyping itself, from the brand identity and the working financial models to a compliance-aware security strategy, a free-to-paid product funnel, and the site you probably arrived from. The same person who writes the code planned it, built it, and runs it.