Bloom
A coffee timer for iOS, and the reason a studio existed.
Bloom was a timer app and recipe database for iOS, released in October 2011. At its core was a timer that let you break a duration into steps, which is what you want when making coffee by hand: you bloom the grounds first to let the carbon dioxide out, and you keep an eye on extraction after that. Bloom stored the details—water-to-coffee ratios and the like—alongside the steps.
At its peak in 2012 and 2013 I would often hear that distinct chime from behind the bar at coffee shops while travelling. It was downloaded more than 20,000 times and, for a while, it paid the rent on an office in downtown Springfield.
It did well enough that I built Central Standard around it.
I’ve thought about resurrecting it more than once, but I’m not as fussy about coffee as I was, and developing for Apple platforms has stopped being fun.