Support the build
Everybody walks away with something.
Bailey's Brainworks is a one-person workshop building useful things: woodwork, practical software, and kitchen know-how. Right now every dollar goes to hardware and architecture buildout and the fixed costs of keeping the lights on. Five ways to help — and every one of them sends something real back to you.
Buy something useful
Real objects from the shop and the shelves. Every sale funds the build and puts something useful in your hands. More items land here as the shelves get catalogued — dozens are in the queue.
Pickup or shipping on every item — say which you prefer when you write.
Book Brian's time
Woodwork, repairs, systems, kitchen rescue, oddball problems — if it's real work, it's on the table. You describe the job, we agree on scope and a pro-rated price before anything starts. No vague hours-someday. If the work doesn't start, you don't pay.
Half of these jobs get invented on the fly. Bring the weird one.
Back a build
Two builds are farthest along: DownStream, which turns piles of resale photos into listing decisions, and Social HQ, which gives raw footage a sane path to published posts. The first 20 beta testers get a year of free service, early access, and bonus software. Beta opens as each product is ready — claiming a spot now holds your place in line.
20 spots. Claimed in the order people write in.
Support a tool once
If Batch Drop or another free tool saved you real time, chip in once — pay what you want through Stripe.
One-time. No account, no subscription.
Come further inside
Patreon membership is opening soon — monthly support for the work, with deeper stories, uncut long-form, and behind-the-scenes. Planned: free updates, $5 supporter, $10 back room, $20 patron/builder.
Opening soon. Patreon will stay a separate recurring lane from one-time support.
Where it goes
What the money unlocks.
Hardware and architecture buildout. The machines and systems the shop runs on — the video and voice factory, the workshop, the infrastructure behind the builds.
Fixed operating costs. Keeping the lights on so the work doesn't stop for lack of cash.
The build keeps moving. Supporters get the thing they paid for; everybody else gets the work continuing instead of pausing.
The person behind the workbench
Brian Bailey.
Neurospicy adult who thinks about things intensely and makes unusual connections. Kitchen veteran, woodworker, systems builder. The cornerstone of the whole operation: make it work.
Bailey's Brainworks is a one-person shop, not a charity. Everything here buys something real: an object, defined work, beta access, or the continuation of the work itself.