Origami Labs

About

A solo dev in the heart of Europe.

Origami Labs is one person, working in Amsterdam. I build local-first tools for people who would rather their work stayed on their own machine, and I judge them by a single test: is this genuinely useful to the person using it?

The standard

Useful beats impressive.

A demo is easy. A tool someone opens on a Tuesday morning, to finish a real piece of work, on a deadline, is hard. I am only interested in the second one.

In practice that means shipping small, using every tool myself daily, and removing the parts nobody reaches for. Things get cut here about as often as they get added. If a feature exists mainly to look good in a screenshot, it does not survive.

Being one person is the constraint that makes this work. There is nobody to hand a half-finished idea to, so it either earns its place or it goes.

What I build

Three tools, one idea.

Origami Coder

Live · Free

A real coding agent, driving a model on your machine. Local by default, cloud optional, one agent in VS Code, with desktop to follow.

See Origami Coder ›

Origami Folio

Live · Free

Documents, decks and sheets that run in your browser and open anywhere. Completely local, no account, no subscription.

See Origami Folio ›

Origami Games

Pre-alpha

Velkarn, The Darklands — a living world built with an in-engine dev kit. From tabletop to screen, shipping with the mod kit.

See Origami Games ›

Why local-first

Your files are yours.

Work you depend on should not stop when a company changes its pricing, its terms, or its mind. Local-first is the practical form of that: the tool runs on hardware you own, on files you can still open with something else in ten years.

So there are no accounts and no telemetry. Nothing is sent to Origami Labs — not your files, not your prompts, not a count of how often you open the app. The privacy page sets out exactly what leaves your machine, and when, for each product.

Get in touch

Tell me what is missing.

Ideas, bug reports and plain disagreement are all welcome. Every message reaches me directly, because there is nobody else for it to reach.

Send an idea or a bug Email me

— Passing · Amsterdam