Skeleton Works exists to support small, intentional projects that value craft over clicks.
- We believe not everything needs to scale.
- We believe not everything needs an audience.
- We believe not everything needs to be optimized, automated, or monetized into exhaustion.
Some things deserve to be built carefully, maintained quietly, and owned fully by the people who make them.
Skeleton Works is infrastructure for those projects.
We build tools for individuals and small teams who want to create without being coerced by algorithms, engagement metrics, or venture expectations. Our work is for people who care more about making something good than making something loud.
- We favor boring technology that lasts.
- We choose clarity over cleverness.
- We design for durability, not dopamine.
- We do not exist to extract value from attention.
- We do not sell growth as a moral good.
- We do not treat people as products, data points, or funnels.
Skeleton Works provides stable, human-scale systems—publishing, storage, automation, and communication—so creators can focus on their work instead of the platforms beneath it.
We assume our users may:
- Publish irregularly
- Grow slowly or not at all
- Change their minds
- Take breaks
- Stay small on purpose
That is not a failure state. That is the design target.
We respect that many people still rely on large platforms. Skeleton Works does not demand ideological purity. It offers alternatives, defaults, and an exit ramp—when and if you want one.
- Ownership matters.
- Sustainability matters.
- Calm matters.
Skeleton Works is not here to help you win the internet.
It’s here to help you keep what you make.