TheSparseLabs

You should be able to see inside

We build in public where we can. Muneem’s code is on GitHub as it’s being written — not a polished drop after the fact, the actual work. This site is public too, for whatever that’s worth.

Read Muneem’s codeRead this site’s code

190 commits in the last year

190 commits in the last year, across 13 days.

Every square is a day of commits to Muneem and this site, read from GitHub within the hour. Nobody types these in.

Not everything is, yet

Godraw and Sextant are closed for now, and we’d rather say that plainly than let “open by default” imply more than it does. The direction is one way, though: things get opened as they stabilise, not sealed as they grow.

  • Muneem

    Desktop app with a cloud API

    Open source

    Billing, inventory and accounting for Indian shops, built offline-first. Built in the open, so you can read how the money arithmetic is done, disagree with a decision, and say so.

    • Updated
    • TypeScript
    Read the codeSee the issues

  • This site

    Web app

    Open source

    The page you’re reading, and every one around it. Public too, for whatever that’s worth.

    Read the codeSee the issues

  • Godraw

    Web app

    Closed for now

    An infinite canvas for drawing systems that exports SQL you can actually run. It’s live, and the product link is the proof here, not the source.

    Live

    Open Godraw

  • Sextant

    API

    Closed for now

    A web search and extraction API for AI agents, built on our own index rather than somebody else’s results page.

    Launching soon

That isn’t a favour we’re asking for. It’s the thing that makes the rest of this page safe to believe.

Software from a lab this small is a reasonable thing to be nervous about, and the honest answer to that nervousness isn’t a promise — it’s access.

If you want to help

The open repos are listed above, and issues are the best place to start. A pull request from a stranger is the best day of our week.

Find an issue on MuneemSee everything on GitHub
  ▲ Next.js
  - Local: http://localhost:3000

We build things to be handed on

We’ll say the quiet part plainly, because you’d find out anyway: these products are built to be acquired. A lab that ships every fifteen days cannot also run twelve products forever, and pretending otherwise would be how they all slowly get worse.

When something we built finds a team that can take it further than we can, that’s the good outcome. Not the exit — the continuity. The product gets people who’ll look after it full time.

The fair question is what that means for you if you’re using it. Here’s the answer, and it’s mechanical rather than reassuring.

  • Your data leaves whenever you want.

    Export is a feature we build first, not a concession we add when people complain.

  • The code is public where it can be.

    If a product is open and you’re depending on it, an acquisition doesn’t strand you. You can run it yourself.

  • We say so out loud.

    No quiet handover, no “exciting news” post that turns out to mean the service closes in thirty days.

We’d rather tell you this up front than have you discover it later.