Memos by Brian Swichkow

progress
progress is the process of improving or developing, or of getting nearer to achieving or completing something, and also movement forwards or towards a place. The Oxford Learner's Dictionary pairs...
AirConsole
AirConsole is an online video game console where your smartphones are the gamepads and your web browser is the console. AirConsole is a product of Zurich-based N-Dream AG, according to its company...
Trends
Trends is a business-trends section of HubSpot's blog. The trends.co domain now redirects there, to a page titled "Trends by HubSpot" and headed "Trends by The Hustle." According to HubSpot, it...
LinkedIn Live
LinkedIn Live is LinkedIn's live video broadcasting feature. According to LinkedIn's help center, it "allows eligible members and Pages to broadcast live video content to a LinkedIn profile, LinkedIn...
Snap Camera
Snap Camera brings the magic of lenses to live streams and video chats on PC and Mac. Snap Camera was a free desktop application from Snap for using Lenses on a computer. Snap introduced it on...
Podpage
Podpage is a website builder made for podcasts. According to its about page, it was established in 2019 by founder Brenden Mulligan, and it automatically generates a website from a show's RSS feed,...
Weird One Character Domain Superstore
The Weird One Character Domain Superstore is a niche-site launched on Product Hunt. Weird One Character Domain Superstore is a storefront for single-character Unicode domain names, from accented...
Podcast Hawk
Podcast Hawk is a podcast guest booking service for founders, agencies and enterprise teams. Its site calls it "a one-stop shop for all the tools you need to build your brand with podcasts," and it...
Virtual Chair
Virtual Chair is a service that produces virtual and hybrid academic conferences, building online venues for organizers and staffing them during the event. Its home page says it makes producing an...
Walls
Walls.io is a social wall product that collects social media posts and user-generated content and shows them at live events, on websites, on intranets and on screens. Its site describes Walls.io as...
Deck of Cards
Deck of Cards is a browser-based playing-cards platform for single-player and multiplayer card play. Its home page sums it up as "Play deck of cards with friends!", and its sponsorship page on Open...
Bank of the West
Bank of the West was a bank of San Francisco, California, that BMO acquired in 2023. According to a Federal Reserve Board press release of January 17, 2023, the Board approved the application by Bank...
LightForm
Lightform was a company that made design tools for projection mapping: devices that scanned a scene with structured light, and Lightform Creator, content creation software for Mac and PC. Its company...
Freight Farms
Freight Farms is a company that makes hydroponic container farms, commercial-scale modular farms built inside shipping containers, and sells them with farm software, supplies, training and support....
Square Roots
Square Roots is an indoor urban farming company connecting people in cities to local, real food. Square Roots is an indoor farming company that runs climate-controlled, modular hydroponic farms and...
Boutique Homes
Boutique Homes, which now operates under the name Boutique, is a vacation rental platform for homes and small hotels selected for their design. Its homepage presents it as "vacation rentals for those...
NaHCO3
NaHCO3 is a venture-fund NaHCO3 describes itself on its own site as a family office: the site's title reads "NaHCO3 - Family Office," and its footer names "NaHCO₃ Family Office." The homepage says it...
Friends With Benefits
Friends With Benefits (FWB) is a members club and DAO "for people building culture on the internet," in its own words, counting more than 5,500 artists, technologists and builders across the world....
Topanga, CA
Topanga, CA is an unincorporated community in Los Angeles County, California, which the County's annual report for the Santa Monica Mountains calls "the LA County unincorporated area of Topanga."...
benefactor
benefactor is a formal word for a person who gives money or other help to a person or an organization such as a school or charity. The Oxford Learner's Dictionary gives examples such as equipment...