The logbook of Maya Okafor
I build quiet tools for teams of two to twenty — the kind you set up once and stop thinking about. Eleven years of being on call taught me that most alerts shouldn't wake anyone.
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Current heading · Updated 8 Oct
Teaching Tidepool to tell a flaky check from a real outage, and sketching a shared inbox for tiny support teams.
Ports of call
Where each one is today, and what shipped last.
Tidepool watches your sites and APIs from six regions and only pages you when something is actually down — not when one check blinks.
v2.4 — Quieter alerts for flaky checksOBSERVED ON GITHUB · 2 WEEKS AGO
Everyone answers three questions when their day starts. Lanternfish turns them into one short digest, so nobody has to be awake at the same time.
Join the betaMy first product: invoices, reminders and nothing else. It found a better home with a team that could give it more time than I could.
Has a new home NORTHWIND STUDIO · 2024
Visit Saltbox at Northwind StudioThe logbook
Releases say where they were seen. Milestones and reflections are in Maya’s own words.
September 2026
Tidepool · v2.4 Observed on GitHub
July 2026
Tidepool · v2.3 Observed on GitHub
September 2025
Lanternfish started as a spreadsheet my own team filled in every morning. Today it's in beta for anyone who wants to try it.
Lanternfish Founder-reported
November 2024
Saltbox now belongs to Northwind Studio. They've promised to keep it simple, and I believe them.
Saltbox Founder-reported
March 2023
After four months in beta, Tidepool is open to everyone.
Tidepool Founder-reported
Letters from Maya
The voyage so far
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