Client siteComing soon
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Large-print, plain-English retirement guidance.
Launching once the owner has reviewed the copy.
Building the tools we need to exist.
Appstart is Brendan Patterson’s one-person studio. Mac apps, open-source tools and websites for businesses and friends, all built with Claude, then handed to owners who run them with their own AI agent. Three already do.
emailtamer.app
Built with Claude Code, Tauri, Next.js, Astro, SwiftUI and Cloudflare Workers.
Tame your inbox. Keep what matters.
A privacy-first Mac app that finds every subscription in your Gmail, unsubscribes where senders honor one-click, and files the rest — all on your Mac, with no server in the middle.
Native, on your Mac
Native Mac app (Tauri + Rust) with a React front end. Mail is processed on the machine; there is no server.
Unsubscribes the right way
RFC 8058 one-click unsubscribe where senders support it, label-and-archive where they don't. Nothing is deleted.
A command-line twin
A command-line twin, emailtamer-cli, with full feature parity so people and agents can drive it.
Tauri 2 · Rust · React · TypeScript · Gmail API
beadmeupscotty.com
Bead Me Up, Scotty.
Free and open source: a local web UI for Beads, Steve Yegge's graph-based issue tracker for AI coding agents. Board, detail drawer, dependency graph and focus view, writing changes straight back to bd.
- Stars
- 158
- Forks
- 51
- Contributors
- 11
- Open issues
- 21
GitHub, 26 Oct 2026 · 4 months, 9 days after the first commit on 17 Jun 2026
$ brew install brendan-appstart/tap/bead-me-up-scotty
$ scottyEverything shipped in the last twelve months.
Eleven projects: two Mac apps, an open-source tool, the methodology, and seven sites and apps for businesses and friends. Each card opens the build story.
ProductLiveEmailTamer
Tame your inbox. Keep what matters.
Appstart
Client siteOwner-runVault Sports Box
A bike-case storefront that machines can read.
Vault Sports Box
Client siteOwner-run locallyActing Studio Chicago
A decade-old PHP site, rebuilt underneath.
Acting Studio Chicago
Client siteLiveDr. Jennifer Romesser
A psychology practice's site, in her own accounts.
Northern Utah Psychology & Consulting PLLC
Client siteOwner-runThe Atlantians
A guild hall for a tabletop RPG group.
A tabletop RPG group
Client siteIn progressTailgate
Game-day coordination for Notre Dame tailgates.
A Notre Dame tailgate crew- Client siteIn progress
Next Move
One concrete strategy for the stuck moment.
A friend's prototype - Open sourceLive
Bead Me Up, Scotty
A visual UI for Beads, the issue tracker for coding agents.
Appstart 
ProductLiveCiderPress
Turn voice memos into living knowledge.
Appstart
MethodologyLiveFire Your Web Guy
Six steps, one AI agent, zero web guys.
Appstart
Fire Your Web Guy.
A website shouldn't need its builder on call. Every site I build now ships with a setup kit so the owner's own AI agent can run it, change it and explain it back to them.
1Build it with Claude
I build the site or app the normal way — with Claude Code doing the typing, tests and deploys gated so nothing sloppy reaches production.
2Package it for the owner's agent
My agent writes a setup kit for that exact repository: install the tools, sign in, clone, verify, open a local preview. Setup never deploys.
3The owner ships changes
They hand the kit to Claude Desktop on their own computer, then just describe changes. Preview, review, publish. I'm the last resort, not the help desk.
Three owners already do.
Named sites, their own Claude Desktop, their own changes. Each one links to the project it came from.
- Vault Sports BoxLive changes
Live changes to vaultsportsbox.com, made by the owner's team with Claude Desktop.
- The AtlantiansLive changes
Live changes to atlantians.fun, made by the group with Claude Desktop.
- Acting Studio ChicagoLocal changes
Changes to a local copy of actingstudiochicago.com, made by the owner with Claude Desktop. Production cutover is next.
- projects shipped
- 11
- in the last twelve months
- commits
- 750+
- across twenty repositories
- outside contributors
- 6
- to Bead Me Up, Scotty
- owners shipping their own changes
- 3
- with Claude Desktop
- setup kits delivered
- 9
- Fire Your Web Guy, October 2026
Counted from the repositories on 9 October 2026. Rounded down.
BP
Hi, I’m the web guy.
I’m Brendan Patterson. Appstart is my studio — one person, a Mac, and Claude Code open all day. I build the tools I needed someone to build right: a Mac app that keeps your mail on your machine, an open-source UI for the tracker my coding agents live in, and websites for businesses and friends who were tired of waiting on their web guy.
Everything on this page was built in the last year. The part I care most about isn’t the building — it’s what happens after: the owner opens Claude Desktop, describes a change, checks the preview, and ships it. Three of them already do. That’s the whole idea behind Fire Your Web Guy.
Brendan Patterson · Founder, Appstart
Want a site you can run yourself?
I build it with Claude, hand you the setup kit, and stick around as the last resort — not the bottleneck. Products, websites, the occasional iPhone app.