The long version, because you asked.

This is a gallery and a storefront. Every piece is a web app, hand-crafted through the power of AI: some by the shop, the rest forged in The Crucible by the people who own them.

What am I looking at?

Working software, shown the way a gallery shows anything it is proud of: one piece at a time, mounted, dated, and running. The shop made some of these, and makes some to commission. The rest came out of the house’s works: The Crucible, the Unicorn Factory, The Pickaxe Smelter, each a different way a thing gets made here, with more lines to come. Every piece came off one of our benches.

What does “in the shop’s care” mean?

Some makers take their piece home and host it themselves. Others leave it with us. A piece in the shop’s care is hosted here and kept in working order: patched, tended, and up when you press its buttons. That is the arrangement most of this gallery has chosen, and keeping such pieces well is a point of pride here.

Why one at a time?

Because two pieces side by side is a comparison, and a comparison is a ranking wearing a hat. The window holds one. Move down the showroom and it holds the next. Every maker in this gallery gets the whole window.

What is the orange dot?

The shop’s own hand. It marks the pieces the shop made itself, commissions included. A gallery should say which work is the house’s, so it does, with one small dot and no further ceremony.

Why do some of them have no picture?

Because the shop could not get one, and it is not going to draw a grey rectangle and call it a screenshot. If it does not have the picture it says so, in large friendly letters, on its own paper. We do not guess.

Can I have one of my own?

Yes. That is rather the point. See Commission, above: three doors, from the automated firing to real hands on every step. Whichever door you take, if you would like the shop to keep the piece running afterwards, that is the hosted arrangement, and this gallery is where such pieces live.

Can my piece hang here?

If it came out of one of the house’s works, ask. A person places every piece by hand and you get a yes, or a no with the reason attached. Typical time to an answer: TK. The shop is not going to invent a number and then have to live in it.