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What problem is Flip solving day to day? And what pushed you toward building it as a native macOS app rather than a web tool, was that a deliberate performance call or more about the type of workflow it fits into?
Shipping it free and installable is the right first move, the friction that kills small macOS tools is notarization and the Gatekeeper warning on first open. Worth confirming it is signed with a Developer ID and stapled, since an unstapled ticket still fails on a machine that is offline at launch.
We built a freight forwarder that doesn't exist. Then we made its website actually work.
Halyard is a concept project — no client, no brief. We wanted to see what happens when a corporate site stops describing its product and just runs it.
So on the site you can:
→ Hover a live route map — 16 real ports, containers moving along their trade lanes, each port showing its local time and weekly sailings.
→ Track a container — type a number and it's checked against the real ISO 6346 check digit. Mistype one and it suggests the correction. You get the vessel, voyage, arrival date and every milestone from booking to delivery.
→ Price a lane — Shanghai to Rotterdam, 40ft reefer, pick a weight. Out comes transit time, sea distance, an indicative rate range and that container's CO₂e.
Five pages, built in Framer. The route map, tracker, estimator, counters and clocks are custom React code components. Open roles on the Careers page come from the CMS.
The part we keep coming back to: most corporate sites make you book a call to see the product. This one hands it to you on the homepage.