The Lab

Where ideas learn to walk.

Every Bark and Olive project starts here: a sketch, a seed, a silly question that will not leave us alone. Most seeds stay in the greenhouse. The ones that sprout get years of care.

The greenhouse Ideas planted · 3

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Every project on the homepage started as a seed like these.

From seed to shipped.

The same four seasons, every time. The order never changes; only the weather does.

  1. Sketch.Paper first. If it is not fun as a doodle, it will not be fun as an app.
  2. Prototype.A rough build in a week or two. Real hands on real screens, fast.
  3. Polish.The long season. Small surface area, deep shine.
  4. Ship.Two stores and the open web. Then we keep tending it.

House rules.

Playable everywhere

iPhone, Android, tablet, or just a browser tab. A Sudokuel challenge link plays without an install.

Worlds, not templates

A paper duel, a painterly galaxy, a daily inkblot. Every game gets its own world.

Shipped, not shelved

Two app stores, the open web, and a stubborn habit of actually finishing what we start.

Now brewing.

Something new is sprouting in the greenhouse. Leave an email and you'll be the first to know when it blooms.

One email when something new ships. Nothing else, ever.