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Why We Built RingBar: Turning Your Phone's Notch Into Something Useful

Mon, 31 Aug 2026 07:15:00 +0100

Every Android phone with a punch-hole or notch camera has the same small patch of dead space sitting at the top of the screen, doing nothing but housing a camera. We kept looking at it and thinking it could be doing something.

That’s the entire idea behind RingBar.

Your Cutout, Doing Something

RingBar wraps a Ring or a Bar around your camera cutout and uses it to show live battery level or real-time download progress, whichever you’d rather glance at. It’s not a new screen or a widget you have to go find, it’s already exactly where your eyes land when you look at your phone.

Why We Built Siro: A Data Usage Tracker That Shows Exactly Where Your Mobile Data Goes

Mon, 31 Aug 2026 07:00:00 +0100

Most phones will tell you, eventually, that you’re close to your data cap. By then it’s too late to do anything but panic-close apps and hope. What they won’t tell you is which app got you there, or whether it happened on Wi-Fi (where it doesn’t matter) or cellular (where it does).

That gap is why we built Siro.

A Real Answer, Not a Guess

Siro reads your phone’s own network activity and turns it into a live, per-app breakdown: how much data each app has used, split separately for Wi-Fi and cellular, updated in real time. Your current network speed sits right in the notification shade, so you can watch it move while you’re actually using your phone, not after the fact in a buried settings menu.

Why We Built PreSpend: A Planning-First Budgeting App That Puts Commitment Before Spending

Tue, 25 Aug 2026 10:00:00 +0100

Most budgeting apps are trackers. You spend money, the app logs it, and at the end of the month you get a chart telling you where it went. That’s useful for looking backward. It does nothing for the moment that actually matters: the moment before you spend.

At Mosh Labs, we built PreSpend around a different question: what am I committing my money to before I spend it?

That’s the whole premise. Plan first, spend second.

Why Spinix Is Just a Bar and a Tap: Designing Arcade Games Around One Honest Input

Thu, 20 Aug 2026 14:30:00 +0100

Arcade gaming in the late 1990s and early 2000s had something modern games often lack: raw tactile response and instant feedback. One input, one clear consequence, no ambiguity.

When we set out to build Spinix, we wanted that same directness. The whole game is built around a single tap, more on where the idea came from at the end of this post.

One Bar, One Tap, No Excuses

Spinix has no paddle, no ball you launch, no bricks to clear. A short bar sits at the center of the screen, and hazards approach from every direction. Your only input is a tap that rotates the bar. Line it up with the direction a hazard is coming from, and it passes harmlessly. Get caught facing the wrong way, and it doesn’t.

Why We're Building Resumiq: An AI Resume Builder That Doesn't Park Your Career on a Server

Sat, 15 Aug 2026 11:20:00 +0100

Your resume is one of the most sensitive documents you own. Full employment history, achievements, education, contact details, sometimes a photo. Plenty of “AI resume optimizer” tools today are built around uploading that document to a server and keeping it there indefinitely.

Resumiq is our answer to that, and it’s important to say upfront: it’s not out yet. It’s actively in development at Mosh Labs, no store listing, no release date pinned down, just a project we’re building because we think this space deserves better than what’s out there.

The Lost Art of Lightweight Software: What Late-90s Web Engineering Taught Us

Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:00:00 +0100

In 1999, a computer with 64 MB of RAM and a 400 MHz processor could render complex desktop applications, handle real-time chat, and render rich Web 1.0 layouts without a hint of lag.

Fast-forward to 2026: a simple landing page often downloads 15 MB of JavaScript bundles, executes 40 tracking pixels, blocks rendering for seconds, and consumes 1 GB of browser memory just to display three paragraphs of static text.