Why I'm Making Comfy Pass

I have a habit of making a useful little thing and then making another one. And another. That's a fun habit until every little thing needs its own site, updates, support, and a plan for keeping it running.

I like building these projects. I want to spend more time doing that. I don't want to spend all my time supporting and operating a gazillion separate projects just because I got curious more than once.

That's the reason I'm making Comfy Pass. The first version is one subscription for five named apps: HideFace, Media Optimizer, ComfySend, Approvals.to, and Security Beagle. They're different tools. HideFace helps cover faces in photos and videos on your computer. Media Optimizer makes images and animated GIFs smaller. ComfySend sends transactional email. Approvals.to gives an automated process a way to ask a person for a decision. Security Beagle scans a public site and gives you a report of what to check.

The same five apps are planned for every tier. The email and approval allowances change with the tier, so someone sending a few project emails isn't forced into the same plan as someone sending many more. The Pass page has the actual limits and prices. I'm naming the five because that's what I'm preparing, not promising access to everything I might ever make.

I hope the membership becomes more valuable as I improve those apps. I'd like to add other projects when they're ready too, and I'll announce each addition when it actually happens. CommentOnAnything has its own subscription today and stays separate for now. The public articles, games, videos, and other free things on this site stay free.

There is a less exciting part of this idea that I care about a lot: if someone pays, the five tools need to recognize that membership, and an existing purchase in one of them needs to keep working on its own terms. That means testing the actual connections, billing events, emails, cancellation, and the little moments where a person can get stuck. A button that opens checkout isn't proof of any of that.

So subscriptions aren't open yet. I would rather tell you that plainly and finish the work than take a payment for an experience I haven't proved end to end. In the meantime, you can see the apps and the planned tiers and try the public parts of this site. I'll write more as the pieces come together.