strange systems

EUG

I build software that makes hard problems feel simple.

Hi, I’m Spencer. Strange Systems is my one-person software studio in Eugene, Oregon. Right now I’m building a planner that keeps AI coding agents on track, a desktop app that hands API keys to your code without anyone seeing them, a comic page layout editor, and a few smaller tools. You can try most of them below.

See my work Say hello

What I’m building

  1. SS‑01

    Flagship

    Ishoo

    Give your AI the structure to work like a real engineer.

    Ishoo is a project tracker your AI runs for you, so you never file a ticket again. Linear and Jira bolted AI on. Ishoo is built for it. Tell your AI “get to work” and it already knows what’s next. Every decision and change is saved in Git beside your code, so nothing gets lost and anything can be undone. You stop managing the project and start directing it.

    Launching soonWindows · Linux

    ishoo.app
    Ishoo showing a project plan with progress per goal
  2. SS‑02

    KeyHandoff

    Hand off API keys without anyone ever seeing them.

    Launching soonWindows · Linux

    keyhandoff.dev
    The KeyHandoff site: a search for .env files finds three live API keys in plain text
  3. SS‑03

    No Ceremony

    Your day, automatically sorted.

    PreviewWeb

    Try it
    No Ceremony's daily list, sorted with the most important task first
  4. SS‑04

    CropASAP

    Crop a whole folder before your coffee cools.

    In developmentWeb

    Try it
    CropASAP ready to crop, with output size and format options
  5. SS‑05

    Panel Studio working title

    Comic page layouts, in minutes.

    In developmentDesktop · GPU

    Panel Studio splitting a comic page into panels with a diagonal cut

About me

Spencer Nunamaker
Spencer NunamakerFounder

Strange Systems is just me, Spencer Nunamaker. I’m a designer, musician and builder, and I live in Eugene, Oregon.

I studied music at Berklee, and I’ve been making things for real customers for more than twelve years. From 2011 to 2023 I ran tiptopbrushes on my own, selling brushes to Procreate artists and building an audience of about 100,000 people. For most of that time I was also the art director at Soundiron, a sample-library company, where I led the design for more than a hundred product launches.

These days I put all of that into software. I design every product myself and build it with AI coding agents, mostly Claude Code. I write the spec, make the architecture calls, review the work and test it until it holds up. That’s also why I made Ishoo: so the agents keep their plan and their decisions straight from one session to the next.

Years shipping
12+
Audience built
100K+
Revenue, solo
$500K+
Launches led
100+
Based in
Eugene, Oregon
Trained at
Berklee College of Music
Previously
tiptopbrushes · Soundiron
Stack
Rust · TypeScript · WebGPU
Builds with
Claude Code · Codex

Want to work together, or just say hi? Email me.

hello@strangesystems.dev