Nyxbyte is the one-person studio of Ransom Phillips. No standups, no roadmap decks — just an engineer building focused tools that do one thing well, then getting out of the way.
Multi-channel Discord streaming: broadcast live audio from a single source to up to sixteen channels at once, with every listener kept in sync. Three slash commands to set up, free tier included — it just works the moment you invite it.
An alarm clock and sleep journal that runs entirely on-device. Photo and QR dismiss challenges force you fully awake before the alarm stops — no account, no server, no nonsense. Currently in closed testing ahead of a public Play Store release.
Turns any process into a step-by-step checklist you can hand to anyone with a single link — the entire list is encoded in the URL itself. Markdown steps, local progress tracking, no accounts, no database, nothing to host.
Peer-to-peer chat with asymmetric, out-of-band discovery. Shadows replaces the central server with direct, encrypted tunnels between peers — data stays inside your network, invisible to the outside. A Rust networking core drives a Flutter client for Windows and Android, currently in closed alpha.
Nyx — Greek goddess of the night.
Byte — eight bits, and a habit of working past midnight.
Nyxbyte is the working name of Ransom Phillips, a developer who prefers building at night, when the notifications stop and the only thing left to argue with is the compiler.
Most projects start the same way: something in daily life is mildly annoying, and it turns out to be fixable with a weekend and too much coffee. Alarm+ started because snoozing through six alarms felt like a personal failing rather than a UX problem — it was both.
No investors, no team, no growth targets. Just software built to be used by someone, then maintained because it should be.
Open to freelance work, small collaborations, full-time opportunities, or just talking shop about indie dev economics at an unreasonable hour.