Ideas & commissions.
Free ideas, custom commissions, and where bug reports and feature requests go. Paid work lives on the Commercial & Professional page instead.
The form below is the primary action on this page. Free ideas join the queue. Paid commissions also start here — say this is paid up top so I can route the paperwork once we've agreed scope; the rest of the work runs through the Commercial & Professional page.
Free, no account, no mailing list. Your address is only there so I can reply. Replies come, but the day job comes first.
Send the form
Free, and no strings. Free ideas, feature requests, and paid commissions all go through this same form — say what it is up top so I can route the reply right.
In the queue. I read everything; replies come, just not on a schedule.
Rather email? Lloyd@LaserLloyd.com works just as well.
Want a paid build, not a free idea?
A commission is your design on my bench, or a build to your spec — paid, scoped in writing, no surprise fees. Rate floor $2,500+. The commission list runs separately from the free queue, so a commission doesn't bump a queued idea and vice versa.
Send the brief through the form above and flag "paid commission" in the description. Once we've agreed on the work, the paperwork runs through the Commercial & Professional page.
On the list
Ideas I mean to build or write up. On the list means wanted, not promised, and not scheduled.
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The post that aged in twelve days
A follow-up to the agent-cost post. DeepSeek changed its prices and its models in the same week, and re-running the whole comparison under the new billing is the story.
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TransForge: a local model translates this site
How the seven translations of this site get made on a local model, why only pages that actually changed get re-translated, and why a hand fix is never overwritten.
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Yours goes here
The short list is short on purpose. Most of the queue is whatever people send in.
Send the form
Feature requests
Five of the tools on this site are open source. Bugs and feature requests for those go on GitHub. Please don't paste API keys, passwords or your home address into a public issue.
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DisPatch
LaserLloyd/DisPatch_ChatSelf-hosted chat for your household and your AI agents.
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StudioForge
LaserLloyd/StudioForgeA GPU-only LLM server with an MCP front end that plans, loads and evicts models for you.
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MailForge
LaserLloyd/MailForgeA local-LLM email assistant that triages, screens and drafts, and never auto-sends.
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CrucibleForge
LaserLloyd/CrucibleForgeAn LLM benchmark suite with verifiable grading instead of vibes.
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TransForge
LaserLloyd/TransForgeA website translator that runs entirely on your own local LLM server.
Commissions
A commission is your design on my bench, or a build to your spec — paid, scoped in writing, no surprise fees. The commission list runs separately from the free queue. Rate floor is $2,500+; once we’ve agreed on what we’re building, the paperwork runs through the Commercial & Professional page. Commissions are quoted per job, never per hour, and pricing and timing are confirmed in writing before any cutting starts.
If you want the write-up to be free, don’t commission it — sponsor the idea instead and the post goes out under my byline. Same shop, same files, no invoice.
How suggestions get read
The form sends everything to my inbox as a plain email. I don’t keep a copy anywhere, there’s no account, and no mailing list. Your address is only there so I can reply. Privacy policy has the rest.
I read all of it and I reply to all of it, including to say no. Not always quickly: the day job comes first.
How they get picked
- Free ideas go in the queue. No strings, no date promised.
- Commissions get quoted individually. You describe the build, I write back with what it costs and how long. Nothing starts until you OK both.
- Sponsored ideas get scheduled instead of queued. That’s the Commercial & Professional page — money moves a build from “wanted” to “scheduled,” nothing else.
- What I won’t build: weapons, anything meant to hurt or track a person, anything illegal, anything that rips off someone else’s work, and anything that wants the sponsorship hidden.
- Laser ideas are especially welcome. The AI section has been hogging the bench.
Bugs and feature requests for the five open-source projects go on GitHub, where the code lives and the next person with the same problem can find them.