● Version2 Labs
A system of apps,
each built from first principles.
Nothing here is built by analogy. Every app starts as a problem taken apart to what is actually true — then rebuilt with nothing that doesn’t earn its orbit.
● The studio
One studio at the centre. A growing family of apps in orbit around it — held together by a single way of building.
Version2 Labs exists because the second version is the honest one. The first attempt copies what’s already there; the second is what you build once you actually understand the problem. We skip straight to the second version — small tools you can open on a bad day and still get through.
● In orbit
Many apps, all from real problems.
Rooftop Wealth
Retirement, in plain words, for Canadians who don’t have an advisor yet.
rooftopwealth.ca ↗WellFam
Your family’s lab results, finally readable and tracked over time.
wellfam.life ↗ExpressoCards
The feeling you mean, sent as a card that opens like a gift — in minutes.
expressocards.com ↗Sizzle
The recipe, rescued from the video, photo, voice note, or link it was stuck in.
sizzlecooks.com ↗These are the apps in orbit today. More are forming across new domains — each one joins the system only when it earns its orbit.
● The gravity
What keeps a system from flying apart is one set of rules, applied every time.
Six principles hold every app in the same orbit: start from the problem, subtract until it breaks, one screen one job, make the default the right answer, treat speed as design, and ship only what helps on your worst day.