Pandarine
How things get made
The workshop notebook: what we decided, what went wrong, and why. Written, most of the time, the week the change shipped.
Claude Code as a design partner, not a typist
A model in the loop did not make the typing faster in any way worth writing about. What it changed is where the thinking gets written down.
ReadPassing the torch
Reaching the last stage used to change nothing. It now retires the companion into an album and starts a lineage that is measurably easier to keep.
ReadWhat it takes to ship on both stores
One codebase, two stores that agree on very little. What gets settled before a line is written — and what turns out to be a calendar entry rather than a form.
ReadWhere the toll sits
Klomi charges to skip a wait. The question was never whether to charge, but which waits are fair to charge for — and medicine for a sick companion is not one.
ReadThe sensors work. They need their own build
Steps, shakes, tilt, charging and network changes all feed the companion — but inside Expo Go they only run while you are watching it.
ReadThe office pays only if you show up
The main coin faucet used to be a timer you started and forgot. It now schedules real tasks across the shift, and pays for the ones you handle.
ReadA place for everything it does
Every action now happens somewhere specific: not one room with a changing prop, but its own drawn environment, with ten seconds of animation to arrive in.
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