SpecifyThat — built for me, found by others

Before Modryn Studio existed, I shipped SpecifyThat.

The problem: I kept starting projects with a half-formed idea and wasting the first hour of a build session figuring out what I was actually trying to build. So I built a tool to fix that.

Thirteen targeted questions. If you don't know the answer, an AI fills the gap using "top 0.1% thinking" for that decision. At the end, you get a copy-ready spec to paste into Cursor, Copilot, or whatever you build with.

I never marketed it. It's not on Google Search Console. But two people found it, signed up for updates, someone starred it, and someone forked it. That's enough signal.

It's listed here now as beta. The AI backend is being swapped from Anthropic to OpenAI (cost reasons — a full spec gen costs fractions of a cent on GPT-5 mini). Once that's live, the status flips.

The tool has a wish list a mile long. That's a later problem. Right now it just needs to work again.