Joel Harvey.

Projects, research & writing — built mostly in Tokyo.

Ventures

Airgap Weekly offline skills courses — learn with your hands, away from screens.

LonelyBirds Companionship sessions for solitary pet birds.

Metta is Better For a meditation practice that has plateaued — a quiz, then a 30-day track.

Psychosecurity Security scanner for AI-built apps — paste a URL, see what leaks.

Seasoned Beings Health, wellness & smart tech for the over-50s — plus history worth retelling.

shinyashimada.com Shin's own corner of the web — home of the plant journal and the croissant hunt.

robinofloxley.com apps

MyOwnSession Practice management for therapists — caseload, video sessions, payments and records. Free, then £10 a month, and 0% commission on every tier.

MyOwnEdu Online tutoring for UK tutors — students, lessons, payments and courses, with parent and school portals. 0% commission, where the agencies take 25–40%.

MyOwnTrader Scheduling and invoicing for solo tradespeople — quote to job to invoice to paid. £15 a month flat, no per-seat pricing.

MyOwnArc AI research library for students — every answer cites its source. From $5/month.

MyOwnReach Cold email that behaves — domains, warm-up, campaigns, replies and sender health in one place.

MyOwnLingo Language learning games — one engine, a pack per language. Levels, streaks and scoreboards.

MyOwnMenu QR-code menus and ordering for independent restaurants in Japan — self-serve, no hardware, ¥0 setup.

Research & writing

Research Hub Men's mental health research library — collect, read, cite, ask.

Quire The writing desk — thirty years of screenplays, fiction and poems, revised, packaged and sent out from one place.

Listening Space A quiet place to talk — an AI listener, trained the way lifeline support workers are.

Shared with Shin

The Library Every book the two of us own — whose it is, which shelf it sits on, and whether anyone has read it.

The Balcony Shin's plant journal — care schedules tuned to Tokyo weather. One passcode, shared records.

Croissant Hunt The joint search for Tokyo's best pain au chocolat — six criteria, one leaderboard.

Daily

Tokyo Today Weather, forecast and the morning's headlines — 日本語 and English.

日本語ゲーム Japanese learning games, N5 to N1 — particles, sentence reorder, vocabulary. Accounts, adaptive levels, scoreboards. Ask for an invite.

英語ゲーム The mirror image — English for Japanese speakers, A1 to C1. Six games, a 物語 reader with a Japanese gloss, and the whole interface in 日本語. Ask for an invite.

頑張れ日本語！ Vipassana retreat Japanese — kitchen & conversation drills, built for the train.

Forza Italiano! A1 & A2 Italian grammar drills — beat the clock, keep the streak.

Ops

Mission Control The private ops dashboard — finances, checks and the cost model across the ventures.

Listening Post Social listening for the ventures — relevant conversations, a reply queue and the content library.

Outreach Cold email for the ventures — domains, warm-up, campaigns, replies and sender health.