5 live today

Everything I build,
in one place.

I'm Takuto Iguchi, and I design, build and run all of this on my own — a few phone apps for iPhone and Android, one Mac app, a web service, and a blog. This page is the complete list, not a selection.

Most of it is made for Japan: the apps are published on the Japanese App Store and Google Play, and unless the card says otherwise, they're in Japanese only.

  • iOS
  • Android
  • macOS
  • Web

Takuto Lab in figures

6 Projects Planned, built and run by me
5 Live today The sixth is still being finished
4 Platforms iOS, Android, macOS and the web
1 Person Whoever answers your email wrote the code

Mobile apps

3 iOS & Android
The GymStamp calendar, with a stamp on every day spent at the gym.

GymStamp

ENGLISH & JAPANESE

Keeps count of how often you actually get to the gym. Press the button while you're there and a stamp lands on the calendar, so the streak is something you can see rather than guess at. It works with any gym — a big chain or the small place round the corner — and every record stays on your phone.

  • Press the button while you're at the gym
  • Stamps build up on the calendar
  • Records never leave the phone
  • iOS · live
  • Android · in progress
  • Free, with an in-app purchase
The Hikazoe list, showing how many days have passed since each date.

Hikazoe

JAPANESE ONLY

Counts the days since a date that mattered, or the days left until one that's coming. It sits on the Home Screen and the Lock Screen as a widget, handles anniversaries that come round every year, and lets you start counting from partway through. No ads and no subscription.

  • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets
  • Handles anniversaries that come round yearly
  • No ads, no subscription
  • iOS · coming soon
  • Free, with an in-app purchase
Asset Sim showing a projected total and a stacked chart of principal and return.

Asset Sim

資産形成シミュ · JAPANESE ONLY

A savings calculator. Put in what you set aside each month and the return you want to assume, and it charts how the balance compounds and how long it lasts once you start drawing it down. The figures are rough — tax and fees are left out — and none of it is investment advice.

  • Charts compounding on a monthly contribution
  • Follows the balance as you draw it down
  • Rough figures; tax and fees left out
  • iOS · live
  • Android · live
  • Free, ad-supported

Mac apps

1 macOS

Scrollane

ENGLISH & JAPANESE

Windows-style middle-click autoscroll for the Mac. Click the middle mouse button once and then just move the mouse to scroll. It needs a mouse with a middle button — trackpads and the Magic Mouse have nothing to hook into. Free.

  • Middle-click once, then move the mouse
  • Sits in the menu bar and works in almost every app
  • Downloaded straight from the site
  • macOS 13 or later
  • Free

The Mac apps are all free. There's no account to make and no licence key to type in.

Web services

1 Web

Uchinoko Ehon

JAPANESE ONLY

Picture books starring your own child, delivered through LINE. You register their name and how they look, and each book arrives with narration you can play back. Books on the subscription are written from scratch every time; the free sample book takes a story prepared in advance and puts your child's name into it.

  • Books starring your own child, sent over LINE
  • Narration you can play back
  • Subscription books are written from scratch
  • Live
  • Paid subscription · first sample book free

Writing

1 Blog

seiji.tokyo

JAPANESE ONLY

A daily blog about Japanese domestic politics. It doubles as a test of how much of the writing pipeline can be automated end to end. Sources are limited to first-hand reporting from the major newspapers.

  • Japanese politics, covered every day
  • Sources limited to first-hand reporting
  • A testbed for automating the writing
  • Live
  • Free to read
How it's made

Built alone, with an AI at the desk.

Design, implementation and the checks before release all happen in conversation with an AI. A person decides, the AI writes, and a person checks it again. That order is the part I don't let slip.

1

Decide

What to build, how far to take it and what to leave out are settled first and written down in plain prose. That part stays with me.

2

Build

The implementation goes back and forth with the AI — design, code, tests, again — until the thing actually runs.

3

Check

Before anything ships, every line of text on screen is read by a person, and anything headed for a store is used on a real device first.

Releases

Recently shipped

What went out, and when. Dates are Japan time.

  • Scrollane 1.0.0 released Free to download for macOS. macOS
  • GymStamp on the App Store Version 1.0.0 for iOS. Android is still in progress. iOS
  • Asset Sim 1.0.5 shipped Added the principal-and-return breakdown and a stacked chart. iOS