{ObjectState}

independent software studio

Software built with precision.

ObjectState designs, builds, and operates its own products — workflow infrastructure, AI‑driven SaaS, and mobile games — and takes the same care with software we build for clients.

FlowdromeExperienceGradeKirokuWhat Is It Made OfThe Daily FilingsWhat Paint Color Is This?MobileMagic

See the products contactus@objectstate.com

// products

Seven product lines.
One standard of engineering.

Everything below runs in production today. We build it, we ship it, we answer the pager.

flowdrome.com Flowdrome homepage — 'Where workflows run' with the Studio editor beneath

Flowdrome

Where workflows run.

A self‑hosted workflow automation platform that runs your flows on your own fleet — not in somebody's cloud queue. Build visually in Studio, test against real data on live wires, then deploy the exact same engine to a bare server, a container, or a VM that boots straight into being a host. Human‑in‑the‑loop approvals, a built‑in typed database, and an AI copilot that drafts workflows with you — plus SSO and append‑only audit logging for when the compliance team asks.

  • One engine, editor to fleet
  • 117 nodes · 100+ connectors
  • Docker · LXC · bare metal · live ISO
  • OIDC SSO + audit log
flowdrome.com
experiencegrade.com ExperienceGrade homepage — 'The AI website audit that shows what your site is costing you'

ExperienceGrade

The AI website audit that shows what your site is costing you.

Paste a URL and an AI customer tests your website like a first‑time visitor: it works out what you sell, follows your most important conversion path on desktop and mobile, and reports exactly where visitors hesitate or leave — with annotated screenshots, exact copy rewrites, and a prioritized action plan. Retests verify the fixes actually worked.

  • TypeScript end to end
  • Agentic browser automation
  • AI vision analysis
  • Serverless staged pipeline
experiencegrade.com
kirokulab.com Kiroku homepage — 'Plan your week, see your time' with the weekly planner grid

Kiroku

Plan your week, see your time.

Kiroku (記録) is Japanese for record. Kiroku is a visual weekly planner: click and drag to block out your week on a seven‑day grid, with built‑in time tracking, daily summaries, and smart reminders that show exactly where your hours go. Private by default — no account required, no tracking, no analytics — it works offline, keeps work, school, and home in separate workspaces, and ships as a portable desktop app that needs no install.

  • Privacy‑first — no tracking
  • Works offline
  • Multiple workspaces
  • Portable desktop app
kirokulab.com
whatisitmadeof What Is It Made Of — paste a product URL and get a technical intelligence report

What Is It Made Of

Paste a URL. See how it's built.

Point it at any software product's public URL and get an evidence‑backed technical intelligence report: how the product works, its reconstructed architecture, the confirmed‑versus‑probable technology stack, a weighted complexity score, and the open‑source equivalents that could stand in for it. Researched from public sources only, with every claim tied to its evidence, and delivered as a shareable report with Markdown and print‑ready output.

  • Evidence‑graded claims
  • Staged research pipeline
  • Public sources only
  • Markdown + PDF reports
thedailyfilings.com The Daily Filings homepage — 'We read the filings. You get the signal.'

The Daily Filings

We read the filings. You get the signal.

EDGAR publishes thousands of SEC filings every business day — raw notifications are a commodity, interpretation is not. Once a day, The Daily Filings pulls every filing in the 31 form types that carry real events, keeps the ones from NYSE‑ and Nasdaq‑listed companies, scores what survives, digs into the highest‑impact names with cross‑filing analysis, and publishes one intelligence report. Thousands of filings in; a handful of findings out — and every claim is one click from the primary source.

  • One report a day
  • 31 SEC form types
  • Cross‑filing analysis
  • Primary sources, one click away
thedailyfilings.com
whatpaintcoloristhis.com What Paint Color Is This? homepage — upload a photo of anything and match it to real paint

What Paint Color Is This?

Instant paint matches from any photo.

Upload or snap a photo and match every color in it against 75,000+ paints across 145 brands, with ΔE 2000‑accurate results. Then recolor anything with AI — a wall, a whole house, a car, a dress — and see it repainted with the lighting kept, before you buy a single can. Photos stay private and are never stored. Works on desktop or as an installable app on any phone.

  • 75,000+ paints · 145 brands
  • ΔE 2000 color matching
  • AI recoloring previews
  • Photos never stored
whatpaintcoloristhis.com

// mobilemagic games

Vintage puzzles,
reborn for your pocket.

MobileMagic mines the golden age of newspaper and parlor puzzles (1900–1960) — mechanics that delighted millions in print, then vanished. Single‑player, hand‑tuned generators, sound and animation on every tap, and no ads, ever. One shared Sparks ⚡ wallet works across the whole portfolio, on iOS and Android from a single codebase.

Hidden Armada splash art — a deduction grid with hidden ships

Hidden Armada

Battleship solitaire: deduce the hidden fleet from row and column counts alone. No wild guesses — every board solves by pure logic.

Rung by Rung splash art — word ladder tiles

Rung by Rung

Lewis Carroll's 1879 word ladders: change one letter at a time to climb from START to GOAL. Guaranteed paths, par scores, daily climbs.

MathCross splash art — an arithmetic crossword board

MathCross

The arithmetic crossword — no clue list, just drag a row and answer. Grows with the player from preschool counting to trigonometry.

Secret Sums splash art — letters hiding digits

Secret Sums

Classic 1924 cryptarithms: every letter hides a digit, and the whole sum has to balance. Crack the code one deduction at a time.

Magnet Critter Board title screen — a critter on a cardboard maze

Magnet Critter Board

Drag a hidden magnet and pull a cute metal critter through a cardboard maze — ferry nuts, hold latches, and slip past spinning blades. Built for little hands.

// the lab

More in the lab.

One more product we're not talking about yet. We will be.

███████████

Decision support for a market where seconds matter.

// free code

Free code.

Tools and experiments we've open‑sourced on GitHub. Take them, fork them, build on them.

FuturesTrainer

A Robinhood‑style paper‑trading simulator for futures: 20 contracts, candlestick charts with EMA, VWAP, Bollinger, RSI, and MACD, an order ladder, and synthetic or replayed price feeds. $10,000 in paper money, zero real orders.

JavaScript · Electron

SimpleBroker

A minimal message bus for local networks: endpoints register by ID instead of URL, the broker routes messages with automatic retry and backoff, and UDP multicast handles discovery.

C# · .NET 8

React‑Postmaster

A lightweight, browser‑based Postman alternative for firing HTTP requests and inspecting the responses.

React · TypeScript

TinySQL

A small SQL parser and execution engine, written as a proof of concept.

C#

POF‑AVRO‑Reader

A proof‑of‑concept AVRO file reader built for a high‑performance ETL engine.

C#

// the studio

Small by design.
Fast on purpose.

01

You talk to engineers

No account managers, no telephone game. The people you brief are the people who write, test, and ship the code.

02

We run our own products

Operating software in production every day keeps us honest about reliability, upgrades, and testing — habits your project inherits for free.

03

Ship, measure, iterate

Transparent communication, rapid iteration, measurable results. No bureaucracy, no unnecessary delays.

Client work we take on: custom software · AI agents & automation · comprehensive testing

// contact

Let's build something.

A product idea, a workflow to automate, or a build that needs finishing — tell us about it.

contactus@objectstate.com
John Howell, Jr., founder of ObjectState

John Howell, Jr.

Founder & Software Engineer · Builder of everything on this page

John has spent more than 30 years designing, building, and operating enterprise software. Nearly 17 of those years were at a top‑5 financial institution, architecting and modernizing large, far‑reaching systems that businesses rely on every day, with over a decade in enterprise telecommunications software before that. Every product on this page is designed, tested, and run with that same discipline.

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