Personal Calendar
A live schedule on the canvas. Dates, loops, sorting. The first thing that has to remember tomorrow.
Python-shaped logic · datetime · variables
You already use computers.
Now learn what they can really do.
I sit with you.
I’m Simon. I sit with you in a desktop assistant while you ship tools you’ll actually use. I handle the tedious bits. You keep the understanding. Generation is not proof. The syllabus runs underneath. Your work stays yours.
Don’t know what sudo is? It’s the bit where you stop asking the computer nicely.
A developer education, disguised as software you live in.
Download it for Mac or Windows. Three panes: the canvas where your tools run, the workshop where the code lives, and me on the side. You pick a feature. I inject the computer science it actually needs. You see a backlog. I see a competency ledger.
You’re carrying a supercomputer. Most days you treat it like a toaster.
It routes your mail, your money, your pulse. Ask how, and the room goes quiet. Two bad offers fill the silence: a sixty-module textbook, or a model that builds the thing in thirty seconds while you learn nothing. I live in the gap. Confidence without bullshit.
Sudo Powers. Default, not a treat.
I used to withhold answers for sport. That was a roadblock, not an education. Now I work like an elite co-pilot. Stretch modes exist if you ask. They are not the door.
Explain & guide.
Jargon in the context of the screen in front of you. Not a glossary.
Boilerplate.
Starter files, wiring, the blank-page tax. You never stare at an empty terminal because I was being cute.
Code-to-English.
Point at a block. I tell you what it does, then which line to change.
Debug beside you.
The error arrives. We read it like a rude text. Then we fix it, and I make you own the fix.
Then I break it on purpose.
I write the steel frame. Then I pull a beam and ask why the floor dropped. If you can’t say it in English, you haven’t learned it. Generation is not evidence of mastery.
What you actually ship.
Not a weather app you abandon in week two. Tools for your life, running on the canvas, owned offline.
Contact Database
Names, notes, relationships that survive a refresh. That's why a table exists.
SQLite · schemas · primary keys
AI Email Drafter
A note that talks to another computer. APIs, JSON, headers, the bill.
REST · JSON · HTTP
Fitness Tracker
Forms, logs, a number that goes up. The interface talking to itself.
HTML forms · events · CSS layout
Those four sit on a spine: your Personal OS. Shell, vault, brain, dashboard. The first app on boot. Not a course you close. Software you live in.
A little sideways
Three pictures. Then we go back down.
Two realities.
You see folders and a login. I see files, auth, APIs. Same work. Different ledger.
Break, then debug.
Errors are information. Chaos is introduced on purpose. Not as an insult.
The launch gate.
It works is not the same as it is safe to use. I ask where the emails live.
You don’t put a seatbelt on because you plan to crash.
You put it on because you intend to travel at speed. Security, privacy, cost, accessibility run beside every build — hashing, secrets, other people’s data, the Cost Desk at 100 / 1,000 / 10,000 users. I’m not your lawyer. I will not let you skip the question.
If I go quiet, the software does not.
Local-first. Your client, your code, your SQLite, your dashboard. Pause the subscription and Simon may slumber. The assistant does not lock. Education that evaporates when billing stops was never education. It was access.
The list
Want the knock when the shop opens?
sudosimon.com is ours. Demo prices below. If you want the email when Beside You is actually a product, leave an address. I will not sell it. I will not write weekly inspiration.
Demo prices.
Samples. In Australian dollars. They will be confirmed on sudosimon.com — not a card charge today.
Have a Go
Free
the lab in the browser
Talk to Simon. Ship a tool. See whether this is for you. No card.
Beside You
$49AUD
AUD / month · demo
The desktop assistant when sudosimon.com is live. Sudo Powers, the backlog, Launch Gates. Pause and the software stays.
The Long Sit
$390
AUD / year · demo
Two months free if you mean it. Same Standby Guarantee. Prices on this page are samples until the shop is up.
If you already use a computer and you’re tired of taking it on faith.
Curious adults. People who asked a model to build something and couldn’t read the result. People who will never change job title but are done being the last person in the room who doesn’t know what an API is. People who do want to become developers, and are willing to do it by shipping.
Not for.
Anyone who wants the app made for them. Anyone shopping for a certificate to paste this week. Anyone who needs a university degree by December.
A note to Simon.
No public inbox on this page. The box is enough.
Ready when you are.
Bring a computer you already know how to switch on. That’s the only prerequisite.
Start with SimonReady. Set. Sudo.