MAKING THINGS
Tinkerers
at heart.
At Humans, we see gaps in the creative industry, particularly when it comes to the tools of our trade. What was once one of the fastest-growing areas of tech has seemed to plateau as everyone focuses on AI and neglects the actual day-to-day working lives of creative people.
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So, we have begun creating a new suite of tools designed for creative professionals like us. And we'll be rolling out those ideas very soon. Stay tuned.
RIPPLE
Dive into Ripple.
Inspired by our love of the ocean, we created a fun little typography animation tool that lets you make your own ripple effects on any type, then allows you to embed it into your own page.
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Sound like fun? Scroll down and try it yourself.
HAYSTACK
Introducing,
Haystack.
The creator economy has unleashed an unprecedented wave of output. Every minute, more than 500 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube. Every day, roughly 95 million photos are posted to Instagram, and over 120,000 new songs land on Spotify. For creators, that growth has a hidden side effect: an explosion of files. Footage, edits, exports, stems, drafts, versions—creative work generates an enormous amount of data that quietly accumulates across hard drives year after year.
Most independent creators manage this archive the same way: external drives, folders, and memory. But as the volume grows, finding anything inside that archive becomes harder and harder. The industry’s solutions haven’t really helped. Cloud storage can be slow and expensive for large creative libraries, and NAS systems often introduce complexity that solo creators and small teams simply don’t have time to manage.
Haystack was built for this reality. Instead of asking you to move your files or rebuild your workflow, Haystack simply indexes the folder structure of your drives and makes it searchable. Scan a drive once, and Haystack remembers where everything lives—so when you need a project from five years ago, you can find the folder in seconds.
HAYSTACK
Stop driving yourself
crazy.
Haystack works by scanning the folder structure of your drives and building a lightweight index of where everything lives. It doesn’t move your files, upload them, or change the way you store your work. Instead, it quietly maps your archive and stores that information in a small local database that can be searched instantly—even when the drive isn’t connected. When you find what you’re looking for, Haystack simply points you to the exact folder and opens it in Finder. The result is powerful but simple: you keep using the same workflow you already have, while Haystack adapts to the way you work instead of forcing you into a new system.
Just a minute. Carry on.
Plug in an SSD, put its name into the field for scanning, and hit Scan. Or, plug in a number of drives and scan them all. That's it. The drive stays in your list forever, expandable and searchable, down to the folder name level.
We built in logic to the way search delivers results, so you can narrow in on where the project is, not every single thing inside it. The quickness of finding anything you've ever done is a freeing feeling you need to experience to grasp.
