About Broaden

Everything here has one thing in common: it used to be just an idea.

What this is

Broaden is the shared front door for work that is finished and actually live. The shape varies — some of it is a web tool, some of it is a phone app, and later it may be something else entirely. The only constant is the bar: it can be used, not merely planned.

Why this site exists

These things started out separate — one domain each, one purpose each. That worked fine, right up until someone asked what connected them. The answer is not a category; it is a way of working: notice a specific annoyance, turn it into something usable, put it on the web. This site is where that answer stops being a conversation and becomes a page.

What AI changed

Not long ago, whether an idea could become a thing depended on whether you already knew how to build it. That constraint has loosened. AI has made the building part much cheaper, so the bottleneck moved — from "I cannot build this" to "is this worth building" and "will it still be maintained a year from now". The boundary of capability genuinely moved. What did not move is judgement, or time, which is why the list here stays short and specific.

How this moves forward

There is no publishing schedule, and no promise of one. Pages change when something actually ships — the only cadence worth committing to. Anything unfinished stays off the list until it is finished.

The products

• Level Ball — A motion-controlled maze game for iPhone.
• Punch Fun — A boxing workout driven by your real punches.
• Pic2KB — Compress an image down to an exact file size.
• RunHere — Prompt templates that fit the job — plus a regex tester that won't freeze.
• WordCheckly — A dozen free text tools that run entirely in your browser.

Get in touch

Email is the only channel. A question about one of these products, a bug worth reporting, or just saying hello all land in the same inbox. qicharms.zeng@gmail.com