Gareth smiling outdoors

Gareth Paul Jones

Product Lead, AI at Poe

A few small tools, experiments, and lessons from building them.

Research, product & code

A small tool for macOS

FlowTimer

Because five minutes can quietly become an afternoon.

A menu-bar timer with gentle checkpoints. Continue, extend, or stop โ€” small decisions before time gets away.

Explore FlowTimer
An illustrated yellow paper-and-plywood wheel with a missing wedge and a small coral checkpoint gate.The real FlowTimer window showing 3:02 remaining in a five-minute session.

JonesAudio

fn + Space

Speak a thought. The text lands at your cursor, without a detour through another window or the clipboard.

An illustrated green paper sound wave passing through a yellow slot and becoming a flat cream strip.Explore JonesAudio

Maskito ยท 2016

The app failed.
The lesson stuck.

I bought people coffee for feedback, then built login screens instead of better filters. A useful lesson in listening.

Read the retrospective
A crop of the real Maskito paper prototype: the pencilled face, filter choices, and black pen.