Indianapolis, Indiana Technical writer · Builder

Brad
Titus

I build the tools I wish existed.

By day I’m a technical writing specialist. The rest of the time I’m building small, opinionated tools for problems I actually have — then putting them out in the open for anyone else who has them too.

Now shipping  FaceSaver v1.0 — open source Based in  Indianapolis, IN Elsewhere  Titus Digital Services
Brad Titus

01 — Intro

Writer by trade.
Builder by habit.

Not a studio, not an agency pitch. This is the personal shelf — the projects that don’t belong on a business site.

I’m Brad — technical writer, front-end tinkerer, and the person behind Titus Digital Services. My day job is making complicated systems understandable. My side projects come from the same impulse: if a workflow annoys me enough times, I build the thing that fixes it.

FaceSaver is the latest example. I wanted a dead-simple way to save videos from my phone and have them just be there to watch later, no matter my device — no accounts, no cloud library to rent, no app begging for a subscription. So I built it, used it every day, and released it.

That’s the pattern here. I build for myself first. If it’s useful to me, there’s a decent chance it’s useful to someone else — so I clean it up and ship it.

02 — Projects

Shipped & in the workshop

One out in the wild, the rest on the bench. No vapor — if it’s listed as shipped, you can download it.

TIATTA app icon — orange stopwatch on navy
In the workshop

TIATTA

This Is A Time Tracking App. The time tracker I actually want to use for client work — built for my own invoicing first, opinionated about everything hosted timers get wrong. SwiftUI across Apple platforms, with a web portal. It’s clean, simple, and intuitive.

SwiftUI iOS · iPadOS · macOS · watchOS Web In development
In the workshop

Shigi

A media hub with a Winamp heart. One front door for everything you watch — your own library, your photos, your feeds, your streaming queues — wrapped in swappable skins that redress the whole room, from a clean modern shelf to a 1992 video store. Named for the hyōshigi, the wooden clappers that call a kabuki house to attention before the show starts.

SwiftUI iOS · iPadOS · macOS Skins In development
In the workshop

harkn

Snap a photo of a textbook page, a worksheet, your study notes — harkn reads it back as clean narrated audio you can playlist and take on a walk. It grows out of a pipeline I’ve run for myself since March, turning my saved articles into a personal podcast; this points the same engine at your own documents instead. Built for students and auditory learners, and anyone whose reading pile is taller than their reading time.

AI narration OCR In development
In the workshop

Kishtin

A meal planner, shopping list, tracker, and recipe book in one place — built for a real household, not a demo. Designed to answer “what’s for dinner, what do we need, and what did we already buy?” without three separate apps.

React Native iOS · iPadOS · macOS · Web Concept → Build

More on GitHub — experiments, utilities, and the occasional thing that started as “this should take ten minutes.”  github.com/bltitus82 ↗

03 — Listening

On heavy rotation

Playlists and albums I keep coming back to. These songs are the soundtrack for most of my work.

Playlists

A Soundtrack of My Misspent Youth
The soundtrack of my misspent life — the songs that were playing while it happened.
Chillhop Lo Fi Beats
Low-key beats for writing, working, and winding down.
Sunday Morning Classic Rock
Exactly what the title says — classic rock for slow Sunday mornings.

Albums

The River In Reverse
Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint — New Orleans soul meets Costello’s bite, recorded after Katrina.
Gut the Van
DISPATCH — the live record that captures why this band built its following on stage.
Live From The Boston Woods
DISPATCH — another live one, because with this band the live versions are the point.