I build careful tools for people who keep things — collectors, players, and anyone whose collection outgrew the spreadsheet they were tracking it with.
One vision, start to finish.
Everything One4Three ships is designed and directed by me — what it should be, how it should behave, what ships and what gets cut. There is no committee here, and no roadmap negotiated between departments. One person decides, and one person is accountable for whether it is any good.
A film credits many hands and a single director. Software is no different. The work is engineered deliberately, to one standard, by the person who has to live with the result.
A collection manager for Magic: The Gathering. Scan cards in seconds, and always know exactly where every one of them physically lives — which deck, which binder, which box on which shelf. Built for collectors whose collections got away from them.
pharos.cards →Pharos is the first thing I have put my name on, and it sets the bar for anything after it: precise enough to trust with a real collection, and pleasant enough to open on a weeknight. Anything else I release will meet that standard first.
One4Three Studios is an independent software company based in Bremerton, Washington. My first product spent five years in design before the build began — months on the scanner alone, then the long work of designing everything downstream of it, from the moment a card enters your collection to the moment it hits the table in a deck.
Small is the point. Nothing ships that I would not put my own name on.
Software that respects the work you have already done. A collection represents years of attention, money, and memory — the tools around it should treat that seriously, keep an honest record, and never lose your place.
I would rather build one thing that genuinely holds up than several that nearly do. Nothing here ships to fill a release calendar.
Reach me directly: hello@pharos.cards
Bremerton, Washington, United States
— Charles Dubuc, founder