It started with one keyboard.
Mine. Here is how a script for my own spacebar turned into three apps on the Microsoft Store and a robot dog, told with the dates to prove it.
The road so far
Dates from public releasesSpaceToggle OS
An AutoHotkey script for my own keyboard, tested with two friends: hold Space, tap a letter, the app opens.
Version 11
The last script version, and the behaviour every later rewrite had to match.
The first native build
The same idea rebuilt as a real Windows app in Rust and Tauri.
It becomes Spaceadom
A new name and the first public release. From here on, roughly one release a day.
The mouse ring
Hold the middle mouse button and a ring of your apps blooms around the cursor.
The Microsoft Store
Spaceadom is published on the Store as SpaceZ.
FileZ begins
A tidy Downloads folder with a Put back button on every move.
Spike goes public
The companion app, his brain, the firmware and the Desk Buddy CAD.
Mac and Linux betas
Spaceadom leaves Windows for the first time.
Building next
Desk Buddy's body, on the bench and taking shape.
In May 2026 I wanted one small thing: to open an app without hunting for it. I wrote an AutoHotkey script for my own keyboard, and two friends tested it with me. Hold Space, tap the first letter of an app, and it opens. Tap it again and it hides. We called it SpaceToggle OS and put it on GitHub on 26 May 2026.
It was only meant for me. But I used it every day, and every day I found something to make better, so I kept going.
From a script to a real app
In July I rebuilt the idea as a native Windows app in Rust and Tauri. In August it got its name, Spaceadom, and its first public release. After that it shipped roughly once a day: a ring of app icons under the mouse, touchpad edges, themes, builds for ARM64 laptops. In September it went to the Microsoft Store, and in October it reached macOS and Linux as betas.
Then the next ones
FileZ keeps a Downloads folder tidy by itself. Spike is a companion with a face, a memory and a personality, and Desk Buddy is the robot dog he is going to live in, designed part by part in SolidWorks and 3D-printed. Spike is where software met hardware for me.
How I learn
I learn by shipping. Real people using the apps find things I would never find on my own laptop, so their reports come first, and every bug gets written down with what caused it and how it was fixed.