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About

A studio that ships its own ideas

Fore Studio started in 2020 doing what most small studios do, which was building other people's products. That paid the bills and taught us a lot, but the work always belonged to someone else. So we stopped taking client projects and started shipping our own.

Today there are four products. Two web platforms have been running for years, and two Mac apps are on the way. There is no investor deck and no growth target. The measure is whether the thing is good enough that people pay for it and keep using it.

What we build

The work splits in two. On the web, we run platforms for founders: StartupBase, where makers launch products and find early adopters, and AcquireBase, a marketplace for buying and selling side projects with no commission on a sale.

On the Mac, we build local-first tools. Flit turns speech into text without sending audio anywhere, and Rimlight records and edits screen demos entirely on device. Both are in development, and both will be one-time purchases rather than subscriptions.

Who is behind it

The studio is run by Atta Ur Rehman Shah, a software engineer who has been writing and shipping software for over a decade. You can find the work on GitHub, the running commentary on X, and the longer story at attacomsian.com.

Business details

Fore Studio is a trading name of Atta Ur Rehman Shah. Purchases of our macOS apps are handled by Paddle.com as the merchant of record, which means Paddle appears on your receipt and handles billing, tax, and refunds on our behalf.

Getting in touch

Support, bug reports, press, partnerships: all of it goes to [email protected]. We are small enough that the person reading your email is usually the person who can fix the problem.