Atta Ur Rehman Shah
I’m a solo founder and software engineer. I run Fore Studio, a one-person studio that builds its own Mac apps, and I’m a co-founder of Remoteen. Mostly I work alone. I design, build, ship, and write about how that actually goes.
Who writes this site
Every article on attacomsian.com is written, edited, and published by me, Atta Ur Rehman Shah. There is no editorial team, no ghostwriters, and no syndicated or AI-generated filler. If something here is wrong, it’s my mistake, and you can tell me directly.
I’ve been publishing here since 2018. The archive is 577 articles deep and started as programming tutorials on Java, JavaScript, Node.js, and Spring Boot, written while I was doing that work day to day. More recently I write about building and launching my own products.
The studio
Fore Studio started in 2020 building other people’s products. That paid the bills, but the work always belonged to someone else, so I stopped taking client projects and started shipping my own. There’s no investor deck and no growth target. The measure is whether a thing is good enough that people pay for it and keep using it.
Today the studio is about the Mac: Flit for dictation, Vitals for seeing what your Mac is doing, Levers for a clean screen when you record, and MacBase, a free directory where any maker can list a Mac app, with two more apps on the bench. The web platforms and the browser extension from before still run. You can read the full story at fore.studio.
What I build
I own and operate these products. When I write about them here, I’m writing about my own business. Treat that as the conflict of interest it is. The small print under each says which business it belongs to.
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Flit. Dictation that never leaves your Mac. -
Vitals. The Activity Monitor alternative for Mac. -
Levers. A clean Mac screen for recording, in one click. -
MacBase. Discover the best Mac apps, and list yours. -
SoundBar. A volume for every app, in the notch. -
Rimlight. A screen-recording studio for macOS that works entirely on device. -
Depost AI. An AI content team that plans, writes, and designs your LinkedIn posts. -
StartupBase. Launch, discover, and revisit new products beyond a single launch day. -
AcquireBase. A marketplace for buying and selling internet startups and side projects. -
Emoji Anywhere. Slack-style :shortcode: emoji in every text field on the web.
Business details
Fore Studio is a trading name of Atta Ur Rehman Shah. Purchases of the macOS apps are handled by Paddle.com as merchant of record, which means Paddle appears on the receipt and handles billing, tax, and refunds.
Remoteen is a separate company I co-founded, and it operates Depost AI. When I write about Depost AI here, I’m writing about that company’s product.
- Trading name. Fore Studio
- Legal name. Atta Ur Rehman Shah
- Studio contact. hello@fore.studio
- Remoteen. Co-founder, remoteen.com
- This site. hi@attacomsian.com
How these articles are written
- From real work. Everything is based on work I’ve actually done, and code examples are run before they’re published.
- Dated. Every article shows when it was published, and when it was last revised. Older tutorials stay online because they still help people, with their age shown.
- Labelled. Sponsored posts, when there are any, say “Sponsored” on the article. Links to my own products are marked as mine.
- Corrected in place. The updated date changes when they are.
Contact
Email is the most reliable way to reach me, whether it’s a correction, a question, or work.