DeclinedStudios
Live from the lab · 41 devlogs published

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Fix it before anyone notices.

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.

14Live sites
41Devlogs
21,431Words written
4Browser games

The Network

Everything we run, in one place

14 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.

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Web builds, small games, homelab & server work — request a quote, pay when you approve.

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🎵 UtubeMP3 Tool

YouTube & SoundCloud to MP3. Free, no adware, no pop-ups.

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📱 Ringtone Revolution Tool

Turn any song into a custom ringtone — MP3 or iPhone M4R.

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Beam Tool

Send files phone to phone — over Wi-Fi, QR video or sound. No app, no cloud, no account.

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🔒 PixelateMe Tool

Pixelate photos and hide faces — 100% in your browser.

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🗺️ Vision Mapr App

Free online mind mapping. Create, connect, save your ideas.

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🏴‍☠️ Silicon Pirates Game

Build. Break. Defend. A homelab rack simulator that behaves like real infrastructure.

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🖥️ Rack Sim Game

The live rack simulation build — power, networking, storage, services.

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🪧 Signs613 Business

Custom signs made to get noticed — Belleville, Kingston, Napanee.

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🏷️ Kivajo Marketplace

Local buy & sell classifieds for Kingston, Belleville, Trenton & the Quinte region.

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⚒️ Sign Forge Studio Software

Vehicle wrap design & sign shop software. Design, mockup, produce.

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🛡️ SiteSentry SaaS

Automated site health & SEO monitoring — SSL, security headers, broken links.

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🖌️ CoatQuote SaaS

Itemized quoting software for epoxy & concrete coating contractors.

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🔧 WarrantyLoop SaaS

Automatic warranty registration follow-up & maintenance reminders.

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💌 Your Girlfriend Experience App

An AI companion who writes first — email or live chat, always disclosed as AI.

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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.

Your Girlfriend Experience: An Uncensored, Private AI Girlfriend That Writes First
Aug 29, 2026 Network Spotlight

Your Girlfriend Experience: An Uncensored, Private AI Girlfriend That Writes First

Live chat or email on one memory, no filters on the conversation, photos that are always her, and a privacy model most AI girlfrie…

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Silicon Pirates in August: Work Orders, Gifts, and a Tour That Finally Teaches
Aug 28, 2026 Games

Silicon Pirates in August: Work Orders, Gifts, and a Tour That Finally Teaches

55% of new sessions never placed a device. August fixed the first ten minutes, then gave you a reason to come back: work orders, g…

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Bug #9: The Mining Rig That Stopped Paying (and Why It Was Always RACK)
Aug 28, 2026 Games

Bug #9: The Mining Rig That Stopped Paying (and Why It Was Always RACK)

A player reported a crypto rig that randomly stopped paying out forever. It was three bugs holding hands: a ratchet, an uncapped c…

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I Sent a Photo Between Two Phones Using Sound (and Two Saner Methods)
Aug 22, 2026 Projects

I Sent a Photo Between Two Phones Using Sound (and Two Saner Methods)

Building Beam: a web page that moves files between two devices with no upload and no app — over Wi-Fi, as a stream of QR codes, or…

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I Turned My Gaming PC Into a Proxmox Node — and Got the Games Back Through a Stream
Aug 21, 2026 Homelab

I Turned My Gaming PC Into a Proxmox Node — and Got the Games Back Through a Stream

How a Ryzen gaming PC became the homelab's Proxmox compute node: GPU passthrough, eight container migrations, and the games back v…

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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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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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