INDEPENDENT MIND. ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES.

Curiosity.
Made useful.

Software, websites and experiments. Built with care, a practical streak, and a lifelong curiosity about what comes next.

PETER RICHARDS / DEVELOPER. TINKERER. LIFELONG BUILDER.
THE WORKBENCH 01 / ∞
A connected world of apps, websites and experimentsBUILD.EXPLORE.CONNECT.MAKE IT USEFUL.
IDEA → EXPERIMENT → SOMETHING USEFUL+
APPS↗
WEB TOOLS↗
A LITTLE NOSTALGIA↗
APPS WITH PERSONALITYWEBSITES WITH PURPOSEIDEAS WORTH EXPLORINGA LITTLE RETRO SOUL

FRESH FROM THE WORKBENCH

The latest experiment.

01 — IN THE SPOTLIGHT

THE COLLECTION

Different ideas.
The same curious mind.

Practical tools, creative detours,
and a few things made just because.

FROM THE CREATIVE WORKBENCH / ALPHA TRACE

Great artwork.
Meet your outline.

A bitmap-boundary tool for CorelDRAW, with a website of its own.

Alpha Trace
A LITTLE ABOUT THE MAKER

Still asking
“what if?”

The person behind the projects

Some things change.
The urge to build doesn’t.

Peter Richards is a self-taught developer, entrepreneur and technology leader with experience spanning publishing, the early commercial Internet and modern app development. As CIO of The Banana Pages, he led the company’s move to computerized production and helped bring its directory business online. He co-founded Yellow Pages on the Internet, acquired by InfoSpace in 1997, and later led InfoSpace’s advertising production group. Through RichWEB, LLC, Peter continues to build practical apps, websites and creative experiments, combining hands-on development with a lifelong interest in making technology useful.

1989–97

The Banana Pages.
Technology leadership.

1995–97

Banana Pages Online.
YPI & InfoSpace.

Today

Apps. Tools. Experiments.
Still just getting started.

GOOD THINGS START WITH A CONVERSATION

Have a thought?
Let’s hear it.

A question about a project, an idea to explore,
or just a hello. There’s a place for all of it.

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