Est. 2026 · Seattle, WA

Systems.No compromise.

Idle Hands builds durable software with exacting taste, plain language, and respect for the people who have to live with the system after launch.

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Place
Seattle-based Washington LLC
Work
Systems, products, and tools built to be trusted.
Posture
Small by intent. Accountable by design.

Principles

How the company chooses.

  1. 01

    No Exit Strategy

    We don't take outside funding. We're not seeking acquisition. We don't answer to anyone's idea of infinite growth.

  2. 02

    We Choose Our Customers

    We don't build average solutions for the most people. We build the right solution for the right people.

  3. 03

    We Ship What We'd Use

    Every product starts with a problem we have. No shortcuts, no compromises. If we wouldn't trust it with our own family, we don't ship it.

Product 01

WCGW

Parental controls that protect kids without creeping them out.

Screen time boundaries that work like a thermostat, not a surveillance system. Set it and trust it. Coming soon to iOS.

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Founder

The human accountable.

Portrait of Aaron Small, founder of Idle Hands

Aaron Small, Founder

Engineering leader with 15+ years building platforms at scale. Started Idle Hands to build software that respects the people who use it, beginning with WCGW, parental controls that protect kids without creeping them out.

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