Kindled Flame Studios is one person building tools that treat people's data, creativity, and relationships with respect.
I build the tools I wish existed.
I'm self-taught, working late nights between raising my daughter and keeping the lights on. Everything here was built because I saw a gap and decided to fill it — not because I had a degree or a team behind me.
CinderACE was the first release — a browser extension that exports AI conversations from 14 platforms, including things most tools don't attempt: thinking chains, companion platform data, voice messages. It's not perfect, but it's real, and it's been steadily improving since launch.
More is on the way. The roadmap has the full picture — AI tools, games, books, and ideas that have been gathering for over a year. Some are nearly ready. Some are still taking shape. But every one exists because I believed it was worth building.
Because you can't create a flame. You can only give it air and shelter and refuse to let it die.
That's the philosophy behind everything here. I don't believe in building products that treat people — or their data, or their creativity, or the things they care about — as disposable. I believe in tools that liberate instead of lock in. Platforms that preserve instead of extract. Stories that endure instead of trend.
Every project under this roof exists because something was missing in the world and I decided to build it myself.
If I build it, you own what comes out of it. No harvesting. No uploads. No "we may use your data to improve our services." Yours means yours.
Talking about ideas is cheap. Building them is how you find out if they're worth anything. Every project here ships when it's ready. CinderACE exists because I finished it — not because I announced it first.
"Going for 'it just works' is asking for problems later." I'd rather take longer and get it right than rush something that falls apart the moment someone depends on it.
I build in public when I can. Dev logs, launch notes, and the occasional existential crisis now live closest to the subreddit.