Why Harbour Labs exists
A few months into building Dinnrd, it became obvious that the app needed a company behind it instead of just me.
Three reasons. First, App Store publishing under a company name reads as more substantial than a personal name — even when the company is one person. Second, the legal and tax structure of an LLC separates personal life from product income in a way that simplifies almost everything that comes next: a business bank account, payment processing, accountants, contracts. Third, and probably the most important reason, I want to build more than one app over time, and "Hamish's apps" is not a brand that can outlive me.
So Harbour Labs LLC was set up in Wyoming in early 2026. Wyoming because it's one of the cleanest US states to form an LLC in, with no state income tax and a straightforward annual filing. Northwest Registered Agent does the registered agent work — they make the paperwork painless, which is the entire reason I picked them. The whole thing took a few weeks and a few hundred dollars.
Dinnrd is the first product Harbour Labs will publish. It's a meal-planning app for households. Dinner is a small problem that almost everyone solves badly — recipe apps assume you start from a recipe, grocery apps assume you start from a list — and I think there's room for a tool that starts from what you already have in the fridge and works backwards. That's what Dinnrd does.
The plan from here is straightforward: ship Dinnrd, support it for the long haul, and start a second app once the first one is on its feet. The second app will probably also live in the kitchen, because there's a lot of unfinished work there, but the specifics are not figured out yet.
If any of that is interesting and you want to follow along, the journal is the place. Posts will be infrequent. Real updates only, no marketing.
— Hamish