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Source: the workbench, August 2026. Figures compiled by the night shift and recounted on every deploy — no rounding, no asterisks.
Project plans from plain English.
Describe your project in a sentence or two and get a shareable, editable Gantt chart in seconds — no spreadsheet wrestling, no project-management degree required.
The Drudge Report, minus the noise.
A clean, ad-free, mobile-optimized reader for DrudgeReport.com. Fast pages, readable type, none of the clutter — just the headlines.
Live object detection & GPS mapping from public cameras.
A community-powered platform that turns public traffic-camera feeds into a live map. Detection runs right in contributors’ browsers, and every spotted vehicle, person, and piece of infrastructure lands on the shared map with computed GPS coordinates.
User research at the speed of AI.
Run a hundred-plus user interviews a week with hyper-realistic AI interviewers — no calls to schedule, no sessions to moderate, no notes to take by hand — and read the synthesized findings while the question still matters.
See the impact of your code on your business.
A tool that traces the line from the code a team ships to the numbers the business actually watches — sign-ups, activation, revenue — so the people who wrote a change are the first to see whether it worked.
Check your PDF before it flies.
A native macOS utility that checks a PDF against exact submission limits — byte size, page count, searchable text, encryption — and safely optimizes it to fit. The original is never touched; nothing leaves your Mac.
The workshop never really closes — more small, useful things are on the bench.
Editor's note
trolls.dev is deliberately tiny. No investors to impress, no meetings about meetings — just a small crew that designs, builds, and runs its own products. Like our industrious mascots, we do our best work while the rest of the world sleeps.
— The night shift
trolls.dev · working while you sleep
The house rules
Three of them, and always in this order.
Every product starts as something we wanted for ourselves. If we wouldn't use it every week, we don't build it.
Small releases, shipped often. A useful thing in your hands today beats a perfect thing that never launches.
We run what we ship for the long haul — fast, ad-free where it counts, and respectful of your attention.
There's more to the story — the six principles we work by and how this site is made.
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The simplest way to find motion in a video is to subtract one frame from the next: whatever changed, moved. It works beautifully until the camera itself moves — a traffic cam pans, a webcam gets bumped, wind leans a pole — and then everything changed, so by that logic everything moved. The whole frame lights up and the one car actually crossing the intersection is lost in a field of false alarms. Thyseus reads public cameras it doesn't control and can't hold still, so before it can trust that something moved, it has to work out how much of the change was the world and how much was the lens. The fix is to measure the camera's own motion first, cancel it, and only then ask what's left.
New dispatches whenever the trolls learn something worth writing down.
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The studio,
in five questions
trolls.dev is a small, independent software studio (trolls.dev LLC) that designs, builds, and runs its own products. It's deliberately tiny — a small crew shipping small, useful software, with no outside investors.
No. trolls.dev only builds and operates its own products — no agencies, no client work, no handoffs. Everything the studio ships, it runs for the long haul.
Five products are live today, each designed, built, and run by the studio: ganttchart.ai, an AI-powered Gantt chart generator that turns a plain-English project description into a shareable, editable timeline in seconds; DReader, a clean, ad-free, mobile-optimized reader for DrudgeReport.com; Thyseus, a community-powered platform that turns public camera feeds into a live map of detected vehicles, people, and infrastructure, with detection running right in the browser; AI User Interviews, which runs user-research interviews with hyper-realistic AI interviewers so findings arrive in days, not weeks; and code-results, which traces the code a team ships to the business numbers it moves. A sixth, Preflight — a native macOS utility that checks a PDF against exact submission limits and safely optimizes it to fit — is on its way to the Mac App Store.
No. The studio is independent and self-funded, with no investors to impress. That's a deliberate choice: it keeps the products small, focused, ad-free where it counts, and respectful of your attention.
Email [email protected] or use the contact form on this site. Whether it's feedback on a product, a bug you spotted, or just a hello — the trolls read every message.
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— The editors, trolls.dev
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