changelog // the company, as a dated journal
Every company is a chronological list of changes.
CLOC keeps one for your projects. This one is ours.
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2020
Solvelop, LLC
The practice becomes a company in High Point, North Carolina.
Custom software, mobile apps, VoIP, integrations - for clients across
the country, paid in dollars, crypto, or trade. The barter stories are
true. And in the toolbox on day one: CLOC, the
founder's private system of record, already running since 1999.
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2021
The idea, in writing
The first article about what would become Pulse is
published: the case for keeping time as one global number instead of a
grid of timezones. No product yet - just the argument for one.
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2023
Other people's products
Two builds go out under someone else's name. Linksaw,
link shortening and custom QR codes, and Wally, an
SMS and email platform rebuilt from a legacy codebase. Designed and
coded here, owned and run by Linksaw LLC and Wally Solutions LLC.
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2024
A clock in the footer
The 2021 idea becomes a fixture: a Universal Internet Time clock
ships at the bottom of this site. It refuses to stay a footnote.
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2025
The side projects become the point
The footer clock grows into Pulse, a scheduling
product. The 1999 toolkit is rebuilt as CLOC, a
subscription anyone can use. Both ship with their own domains, their
own support, and their own roadmaps.
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2026
The rest of the toolbox follows
Three more internal tools stop being internal. Napkin,
built to keep a family's handwritten recipes from disappearing.
Woody, built because receipts were piling up faster
than anyone would file them. Pilgrim, built to get
customer history out of an ERP and onto a phone. Each one had already
run for years before it got a domain.
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2026
One we give away
AsBuilt keeps a SQL Server schema in a private
GitHub repository, straight from SSMS. It is the first thing we have
shipped without a price, because the people who need it are people
like us.
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2026 · this entry
A product company
Five products of our own, one free tool, and two built for other
companies. None were market research - every one was a problem we had
first and solved for ourselves, which is also why they stay
maintained. Client work continues quietly, in small volume and by
referral - if you need us, ask. But the products are the business.