Kept Light Studio

what we make

good things keep happening

gtkh.org

an anonymous shared night sky. every light in it is a moment somebody left behind — drift near one and it will speak. there are no likes, no follows, and no feed to fall down.

warm lights — good things that happened to someone

cool lights — people being missed

golden lights — sent to you by someone thinking of you

you can keep a private journal of your own days alongside the shared sky, or send a single light to one person by link. what you keep private never leaves your device.

web — live android — in preparation ios — planned

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l train monitor

late4l.com

a single-purpose arrival board for the L. live MTA data, the next four trains, the time, and nothing else — no map, no menus, no app to open.

it is built to be left on: point a cheap wall-mounted display at it, and it just sits there telling you when to leave the apartment.

web — live

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how we build

four things we don't compromise on

quiet by default

software should be able to sit in the background of a life without demanding a place in it. no manufactured urgency, no streaks that punish you for having a hard week, no notification written to pull you back.

anonymous unless you say otherwise

no accounts, no profiles, no advertising identifiers, no third-party trackers. we ask for an email address only when you hand us one for a specific purpose, and it does exactly that one thing.

one thing, finished

we would rather ship one small product that works completely than five that almost do. a feature earns its place by making the thing calmer, not larger.

built to be kept

everything here is made to still be running in ten years — small enough to maintain alone, cheap enough to keep online, and honest enough that it doesn't need to change when the business model does.

the studio

one person, a short list of small things

kept light studio was founded in 2026. it is one person, and the list is deliberately short — which is roughly the intended size. everything here is designed, built, and maintained in-house.

the name is borrowed from the work: a kept light is one somebody left on purpose, and one that somebody else is still tending.