03 / Case study 2026
Relay
A tiny transfer tool for the laptop-to-phone hop. No cloud, no pairing codes, no account.
Preview / coming soon
The idea
Relay is the tool I kept wanting and never finding: copy something on one device, paste it on another, without routing the contents through somebody else's server.
The build
The design is deliberately boring. Devices announce themselves on the local network, pair once, then speak directly. The whole thing is light enough to leave running all day.
- Finds your other devices automatically
- Encrypted transport with keys stored locally
- Clipboard sync that can be paused per device
- Works on the same network with no relay server
The hard part
It is still a concept. The interesting risk is discovery: local network rules are inconsistent across platforms, and a tool that fails silently is worse than one that makes you type an address.
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