Creator / Owner
Nov 2025 - Jun 2026
created bytejake llc, samplore, and the website/storefront for selling premium versions and user access.
Project Overview
originally on linkedin
Jun '26
i’ve been a bit quiet for the last five months with the overall industry vibes. i’m incredibly thankful to have found part-time work recently in unreal, but i thought i would take the free time to really commit to shipping a commercial tool and see how i could handle it independently. i had finished an early version of this app in college and knew what the target was; and i’m happy to finally show it off in its true capable form for everyone!
oh… yea. ~ i had to start a whole new company, bytejake llc! that’s right, got an ein and everything. hopefully taxes get easier not harder cause this was not fun!
and oh… yea ~ bytejake.com. i had to make a whole new self-hosted storefront that worked for my needs and remained independent in an overpriced saas world.
this took a lot of initial setup for both of these as well, but i really wanted to learn how to do this all correctly. i wanted to make a real business. i didn’t want to try and make the next VC funded monopolistic venture. i just wanted to see if there was a possible path to distributing software independently and making a profit for my time, while ensuring users feel a premium experience for a great value. i also knew this was a one time cost and i could release software much easier in the future.
in being able to distribute applications quickly, i hope to make other useful quirk apps (some already nearing alpha) and release them through this site. i’m hoping to release more content too about my personal software + its development.
Past Updates
Update Nov '25: Were back!
Recently, as Splice has been forcing long term subscriptions to maintain credits and not seeing many other options for exploring samples to the same degree I wanted.
With my recent toolstack gaining this cool thing called Claude, doing major refactors, updating to latest JUCE, renaming properly through the codebase, and doing some slight visual modernizations, this app is back to a modern, dev-ready space.
Pre-Revival History
The purpose of this app has always been one thing, a sample sandbox. A place to 'rapidly' try out new samples and create a sorting system defined by yourself.
The original non-JUCE prototype was created over summer break freshman year. I quickly realized JUCE had a lot of useful featureset right as i was approaching a good MVP over the coming year. The next summer break I started from scratch to develop with JUCE. This was my passion project developed during breaks at Champlain and finished while on my semester in Montreal.
Goal of project was to create a new sample browser for music producers.
The main mechanic that I wanted from a sample browser was a waveform view and a tagging system. The waveform view is working great, with the ability to custom draw the waveform in any way desired, but the loading of this many waveforms slows down the system greatly, especially with large sample libraries.