A field of experiments · 2026

Experiments used to be expensive.Now they cost a weekend.

So I run a lot of them. Everything here is an idea I gave a night or two — substrates, frameworks, languages, and tools, most built solo in spare hours. The barrier to trying something didn't move. It disappeared.

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Experiments
7
Shipped
6
Themes
See the experiments ↓
The person behind the index

I build software that questions its own foundation.

I'm Chris Kluis. For nearly two decades I've worked the seam where product, marketing, and go-to-market meet in B2B SaaS — I took an enterprise software company from on-prem to SaaS to acquisition, and turned one too many "there has to be a better way" posts into co-founding SaaSRock. Back then I was the idea guy; a developer built everything.

So for years the deal was the same: dream it, write it up, hand it off. A new UX paradigm for relationship-aware data, APIs that could teach an LLM agent themselves — things I had no way to build myself. The tooling finally changed that. Everything here is me building the ideas I used to have to give away — and an open invitation for every other idea person to start experimenting too.

18+ yrs B2B SaaS30% → 80% ARR 1 acquisitionCo-founded SaaSRockPalm Harbor, FL
01 — Substrate

The code is rows.

Data platforms where the application itself lives in the database. One kernel, one Postgres, governance as a first-class citizen — three different bets on the same idea.

Shipped · live site + repo

regel

A Go kernel runs strict-TypeScript apps admitted as content-addressed Postgres rows. Deploy is a commit; rollback is an as-of WHERE clause — and nothing lands unverified.

GoTypeScriptPostgres
Live ↗Spec →Code ↗
regel
kern
kern
Spec

A homoiconic SaaS substrate in Lisp — every view, workflow, policy, and even agent-written patch is a versioned row, evaluated by a tiny kernel.

LispPostgres
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eigen
eigen
Spec

A local-first hypermedia framework for Rust — one static binary is the app, desktop, and API; Postgres holds everything; PII stays hidden offline.

RustPostgres
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02 — Frameworks

Platforms to build on.

Opinionated ways to ship products faster — a hypothetical G# ecosystem of full-stack frameworks, and one shipped foundry for launching many SaaS products on a single substrate.

Shipped · live site + repo

samen

A governed B2B-SaaS foundry that presets the boring 80% — identity, CRM, billing, support, and the product UI — as six governed idioms on one Postgres per product. Support your tenants without ever seeing their customers.

ElixirAshObanPostgres
Live ↗Spec →Code ↗
samen
chord
chord
Spec

The omakase full-stack for G# — every decision made for you, batteries included, one blessed way to do each thing.

G#Full-stack
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fugue
fugue
Spec

The Phoenix of G#, on Orleans — a distributed-by-default app framework built on virtual actors.

G#Orleans
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realbook
realbook
Spec

The WordPress of G#, with a gate — content and commerce, governed by admission instead of a plugin free-for-all.

G#CMS
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03 — Languages

Small languages, strong opinions.

Little languages with strong beliefs about the world they compile into.

taal
taal
Spec

A small language for building the BEAM on Go — Erlang-style actors and supervision trees, without the VM.

GoActor model
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streng
streng
Spec

A closed-world TypeScript — all of the corpus, none of the supply chain, checked by a vendored native compiler in milliseconds.

TypeScriptNative compiler
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04 — Interfaces

Where the substrate meets the eye.

Layout systems and UI laboratories — the surface where all the rest becomes visible.

uiExplorer
uiExplorer
Shipped

The UI Lab — a forkable, zero-dependency framework where every interface experiment is pure HTML/CSS and documents its own making: prompt, model, agents, version lineage.

HTML/CSSZero-depAI-native
Live ↗Code ↗
lui
lui
Spec

Layout User Interface — a layout-first UI framework with an AI sidecar that composes screens from intent.

UI frameworkAI sidecar
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05 — Tools & products

The experiments that grew up.

Shipped software people can actually run — and two that stay home for good reasons.

Shipped · live site + open source

aiCRO

A full growth engagement from one URL — analysis, positioning, a rebuilt site inside a guided preview, and a GTM kit per customer group. Evidence-graded and self-contained: it opens from a file, no server, no AI slop.

Node.jsClaudeSelf-contained HTML
Live ↗Code ↗
aiCRO
senkani
senkani
Shipped

Token compression for AI coding agents — a native macOS binary that compresses every file read and filters shell output from a local index before a token reaches Claude Code, Cursor, or any MCP agent.

SwiftmacOSMCP
Live ↗Code ↗
terminalHelper
terminalHelper
Shipped

A searchable, browsable command reference for your terminal — a Miller-column TUI, full-text search, and an ask-Claude escape hatch that saves answers to your library.

GoBubble TeaSQLite
Read the spec →Code ↗
luminaryTeam
luminaryTeam
Shipped

A multi-agent technical review framework — drop in a codebase, spec, or launch plan and get an adversarial audit from 39 domain experts across 7 phases, synthesized into ranked fixes.

PromptsMulti-agentClaude
Live ↗Code ↗
baton
baton
Spec

An orchestrator of orchestrators — one starter prompt that turns a fresh Fable session into a file-passing, tier-escalating, adversarially verified multi-agent run. Fill three lines, walk away.

PromptMulti-agentFable
Get the prompt →
nonprofitEventPlanner
nonprofitEventPlanner
Local

One place for a volunteer to run a whole youth trip — rooming, chaperones, money tracked (not chased), and parents onboarded by magic link.

Rails 8HotwirePostgres
Read the spec →Private code
customCMS
customCMS
Local

BookEngine — one local brain that researches, writes, compiles, and runs many niche book-review sites on cheap VPSes, driven by Claude at zero marginal cost.

GoSQLiteClaude Code
Read the spec →Local only
06 — Objects & space

Ideas you can hold.

3D experiments — buildable physical concepts you can rotate, open, and scrub through the whole set-up, right in the browser. No plugins, no build step, no server.

Concept · interactive 3D + full plan

omegaClass

One wide sealed stainless cabinet that opens into a full outdoor fire station in three zones: a prep + sink counter, a brasero-fed Argentine parrilla, and a vertical rack smoker — sheltered by two lift-up roofs. Designed so a master asador and a master pitmaster can both work it at once. Configure it live, then read the full plan.

Three.jsTwo-axis rigPBR + reflectionsShared rendererNo-build
Open the 3D ↗Read the plan →
omegaClass — a stainless grill that deploys a sheltered fire station
STOWORK
STOWORK
Concept

A carry-on that unfolds into a full three-monitor workstation — broadcast-grade AV and a swappable compute bay for your own Mac mini or Studio — in under two minutes.

Three.jsParametric rigNo-build
Open the 3D ↗Plan →