A small studio with a narrow brief.

Skybolabs builds software for the parts of work that waste your day — the repetitive, unglamorous friction that everyone routes around instead of fixing.

Most tools in this space try to own your whole workflow. They want to be the place you start your morning, the dashboard you check, the system of record. That is a reasonable business strategy and a bad experience, because it asks you to move your work to them before you get anything back.

We build the opposite: small tools that show up inside the thing you were already doing, do one job completely, and get out of the way. ApplyOnce lives inside LinkedIn because that is where job hunting actually happens. There is no ApplyOnce dashboard to visit. There is no ApplyOnce account. That is deliberate.

What we hold to

Scope is a feature. A tool that solves one problem completely is worth more than one that solves ten halfway. We would rather ship something narrow that you keep using than something broad you abandon.

Local-first, by default. If a feature does not genuinely need a server, it does not get one. No account unless there is no other way. This costs us the analytics and engagement metrics most products are built around — that is the trade, and we think it is the right one.

Say what is true. We announce tools when they are close enough to be useful, not when a launch calendar says so. If something is in progress, this site says so plainly rather than dressing it up as a waitlist.

Where we are now

One tool shipped: ApplyOnce, free on the Chrome Web Store. More is in progress around the hiring workflow, and it will show up on the changelog when it is real.

Get in touch

Press, partnerships, feature requests, or a bug that is ruining your week — support@skybolabs.com reaches us directly. We reply within two business days.