About
Built for the still point.
Stillpoint Labs is a one-person software company in Utah. We build tools that clear away the noise so people can be present for what matters.
Every product we ship removes an obstacle between a person and the moments that define their life — the hammock at the end of a long day, the family dinner, the photograph that captures something real, the vista at the end of the trail.
We don't build productivity tools. We build presence tools.
Founder's note
"I want to build the apps that make it so I have more time for living in the real world with my family and having to spend less of it on the hum-drum of bills, groceries and meals, spending tons of time editing photos as a hobbyist and still being disappointed with the results."
"I want to build a business for people, by people. We always start by asking what is right for our customers and then what is right for the employees. My ambition is to build a company that focuses on building people, families, lives over chasing exits and profits."
— Noah Goodrich, founder
The name
The name comes from T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets: "At the still point of the turning world… there the dance is."
The still point is the center that doesn't move while everything spins around it. Every tradition has a word for this — menucha (Hebrew: deep rest), wu wei (Taoism: effortless being), ma (Japanese: the meaningful pause), sati (Buddhism: present-moment awareness).
The still point isn't something you create. It's something you uncover by removing what's in the way. That's what every Stillpoint Labs product does.
Verbs of arrival
Every product is named after what happens when you reach the still point — the moment when the noise drops and you're present. These are quiet words. Not productivity words, not achievement words. Words of being there.
- Reveal — from Latin revelare. The moment you discover what was in your photo all along.
- Ingle — from Scottish Gaelic aingeal, the hearth fire. The warm center of the home where the family gathered.
- Troth — from Old English trēowþ, the kept promise. The word in plighting one's troth at the marriage altar.