"Nothing feels as expensive as the tool you can't find." I fell for a simple idea: every tool, every device, every part deserves to remember its own story. So I'm building Hecate — and the twist is that you decide what that story records. In a wizard you snap a capture together from blocks: scan a code, tick a checklist, note a reason, jot a serial. Change your mind next week and rebuild it — no code, no app update, no release. Capture it in the field, shape it at your desk, watch it live on any screen. And here's the part I refuse to compromise on: Hecate is an app, not a service. It runs against your own broker — nothing phones home, there's no Hecate server, no account, no data slipping out of your walls. Privacy isn't a setting buried in a menu; it's the architecture. It works offline, at the edge, wherever your things actually live. It's just me, building in the open, obsessing over the details most people never notice — the ones that decide whether a thing gets found or lost, whether your data stays yours. Every coffee goes straight into label rolls, test hardware, and the quiet hours that keep Hecate free, private, and mine to get right.