DeclinedStudios
Live from the lab · 36 devlogs published

One developer.
Zero adult supervision.

Declined Studios is a one-person workshop: browser games, self-hosted tools and a homelab that keeps getting rebuilt. Everything here is something we actually shipped — and the posts explain exactly how, including the parts that went wrong.

12Live sites
36Devlogs
14,557Words written
4Browser games

The Network

Everything we run, in one place

Nine live properties — tools people use daily, games you can play in a browser, and a real sign business — plus one very direct way to hire the person who builds them all.

Devlogs

Notes from the workbench

Build logs, teardowns and post-mortems — Proxmox clusters, GPU/AI nodes, Unity WebGL games and the tools that came out of them.

CoatQuote: So a Contractor Doesn't Have to Guess at Flake Ratios in Their Truck
Jul 27, 2026 Network Spotlight

CoatQuote: So a Contractor Doesn't Have to Guess at Flake Ratios in Their Truck

CoatQuote turns a job walk into an itemized, professional coating quote before the contractor is back in the truck — surface prep,…

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Pixelateme: Privacy Tool by Day, Pixel Art Machine by Night
Jul 27, 2026 Network Spotlight

Pixelateme: Privacy Tool by Day, Pixel Art Machine by Night

A free, no-signup tool that either hides faces for privacy or turns any photo into retro pixel art — and nothing ever leaves your …

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Sign Forge Studio: Wrap a Whole Van Without Touching a Single Sheet of Vinyl
Jul 27, 2026 Network Spotlight

Sign Forge Studio: Wrap a Whole Van Without Touching a Single Sheet of Vinyl

Design 3D vehicle wraps, mock up storefront signage on real photos, estimate vinyl by the square foot, and get it e-signed — all b…

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Signs613: The One Business in This List You Can Actually Drive Past
Jul 27, 2026 Network Spotlight

Signs613: The One Business in This List You Can Actually Drive Past

Everything else in this network lives in a browser tab. Signs613 makes yard signs, banners and storefront signage you can touch, i…

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Silicon Pirates: Build. Break. Defend. Repeat Until It Stops Breaking.
Jul 27, 2026 Network Spotlight

Silicon Pirates: Build. Break. Defend. Repeat Until It Stops Breaking.

A homelab rack simulator where power, networking and storage behave like real infrastructure — because someone here has actually l…

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Inside the Rack Simulator: DHCP Faults, Thermal Profiles, and a Marketplace That Remembers Everything
Jul 27, 2026 Network Spotlight

Inside the Rack Simulator: DHCP Faults, Thermal Profiles, and a Marketplace That Remembers Everything

The live, playable build of Silicon Pirates: wire real power and network topology, trade items with a permanent ownership history,…

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Playable

Games that run in your browser

No installs, no launchers. Unity WebGL builds and simulations you can open right now.

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Trivia Rush

A browser trivia system built in three days — Unity WebGL front end, PHP leaderboards and an admin panel behind it. Four builds to play: the original plus 80s, Horror and Seinfeld editions.

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Silicon Pirates

A homelab rack simulator where power, networking, storage and services behave like the real thing. Build it, break it, defend it.

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Rack Sim

The live simulation build — the sandbox where the infrastructure model actually runs.

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Web builds, self-hosted tools, signage software, or a homelab that refuses to behave.

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