INDEPENDENT SOFTWARE STUDIO / BY QIAN QIU
Q Studio.
We build local-first softwareand developer tools.
Founded and self-funded by Qian Qiu. Our current product, VeriSilo, gives each browser identity its own space. Every project shows its real interface, evidence, and limits.
An interface is a beginning. The workings matter.
For every work here, you can see what it is for, a real piece of the work, and the edge of its promise. The studio's signature sits next to those claims.
SELECTED WORK / 01—04
The work,
opened.
One current product, two public software projects, and one teaching lab. Each file opens on real material and a deliberate limit.
01 / 04VeriSiloCURRENT PRODUCT · PUBLIC PRE-RELEASEA lasting browser space for each identity, with separation you can inspect.
WINDOWS-FIRST / OPEN SOURCE
Each Silo gives Chrome or Edge its own managed data directory. A public development demo shows declared and observed browser states side by side.
- FOR
- People who need browser identities kept visibly separate.
- BOUNDARY
- Browser state separation does not promise device impersonation or undetectability.
02 / 04MealCircuitPUBLIC SOFTWARE · LOCAL-FIRSTA feedback history for meals, daily context, and the next choice.
PUBLIC RELEASE / V0.3.0
MealCircuit keeps photos, context, corrections, and trends together so the next decision can be informed by the history, not a single score.
- FOR
- Individuals who want long-horizon diet feedback on their own device.
- BOUNDARY
- Decision support, not medical diagnosis.
03 / 04CrewlightPUBLIC SOFTWARE · WINDOWS-FIRSTAn attention inbox for parallel coding agents, kept local and read-only.
V0.5.0 / WINDOWS-FIRST CANDIDATE
Crewlight brings running, waiting, permission, completed, and failed states into one local view, so concurrent work does not quietly lose your attention.
- FOR
- Developers running concurrent coding agents.
- BOUNDARY
- Read-only; it does not control agents or keep full transcripts.
04 / 04Hadoop LabTEACHING LAB · NOT A PRODUCTA repeatable local path through setup, observation, failure, and recovery.
SEVEN LABS / LOCAL EXPERIMENTATION
A local path from the first container to service observation, MapReduce, and a three-node failure and recovery exercise.
- FOR
- Classroom teaching, self-study, and local experimentation.
- BOUNDARY
- A teaching environment, not a production Hadoop platform.
Q STUDIO / A WORKING PRACTICE
Show the
workings.
The studio is interested in software that stays understandable after the first demo—especially where state lives, why a result appeared, and what the tool cannot know.
- 01 /
Keep it close.
Useful work and private state should live on the user's device by default.
- 02 /
Leave a trace.
Expose observations, history, and capability states so a decision can be checked.
- 03 /
Draw the edge.
State the limit in the same breath as the capability. Unknown is a useful answer.
The person behind the studio has another space for music, writing, and a very real guitar.
Meet 千秋 at me.qiu.works ↗
SELECTED WRITING / PUBLIC NOTES
The thinking leaves a trail.
Some of the questions behind the work continue in writing: model uncertainty, recoverable systems, and the discipline to leave resources unused.
A DIRECT LINE / Q STUDIO
Start with a
real problem.
qstudio@qiu.works ↗Product feedback, technical collaboration, and focused software work are welcome. The public source is on GitHub.
PUBLIC CODE / GITHUB ↗