A personal suite · since 2025
Misenkitchen
A spatial home for personal apps. Your tools sit on shelves and walls of a little dollhouse — open the inbox, water the garden, read a chapter, plan the day. Local-first, ad-free, yours.
↑ a Misen room — each piece launches an app
What is Misen
A launcher
An Electron app that wraps locally-running web apps in a single window. One home for inboxes, calendars, journals, garden notes, sheet music, residency trackers — anything you've ever wanted to build for yourself.
A spatial UI
The home screen isn't a grid of icons. It's a fixed-camera diorama — a little 3D room where apps live as furniture. The plant is the garden tracker. The mug is the kitchen. Click the laptop to open the job search.
Local-first
Each app runs as its own tiny local server on your machine. Data lives
under ~/.misen-data. No accounts, no telemetry, no cloud
syncing you didn't ask for. Your stuff stays on your stuff.
The suite, so far
Each one started as a frustration with an existing app, or a tiny obsession. Most are personal — built for an audience of one. The brand connects them.
- Misen kitchen
- Misen inbox
- Misen garden
- Misen day
- Misen studio
- Misen media
- Misen score
- Misen read
- Misen shelf
- Misen map
- Misen diary
- Misen font
- Misen sketch
- Misen brief
- Misen event
- Misen task
Stay in the loop
Misen isn't done. It might never be.
Leave an email if you'd like the occasional postcard — new apps, design notes, a screenshot of the dollhouse as it gains another room. No spam, no schedule, no metrics dashboard staring back at me.
Install
Right now: clone the repo
Misen is a single-user Electron app — it expects to be on your machine
and to find ~/Documents/Projects/Apps/ nearby. There's no
packaged release yet because honestly I keep moving the walls.
git clone https://github.com/hello-sami/misen.git
cd misen
npm install
npm startmacOS only for now. Tested on Apple Silicon.
Soon: a packaged build
I'll cut a signed .dmg when the diorama stops shuffling.
Probably with one example app pre-installed so it doesn't look empty
on first launch. Signup above to hear when.
In the meantime, every app in the suite is open source under the same umbrella — poke around in the repo.