# Great Work Everyone — Full Reference > A two-person product studio founded by Dr Connor Randazzo and William McDonald. We design and build consumer apps and integrated platforms. Based in Stuart Park, Northern Territory, Australia. Privacy-first by default. No agencies, no investors, no data brokering, no growth hacks. This file is a condensed AI-friendly reference for the studio, founders, and products. Canonical HTML versions live at the linked URLs. --- ## Studio overview **What it is.** Great Work Everyone is an independent product studio operating out of Stuart Park, NT. Co-founded by Dr Connor Randazzo (medical doctor, University of Melbourne) and William McDonald (physicist by training). We design, build, and ship software products — our own, and occasionally for others. **What we build.** 1. Consumer mobile apps where privacy is architectural, not marketing. 2. Integrated operations platforms for specialised teams — the kind of work spreadsheets and legacy tools can't hold anymore. **Operating principles.** - Ship before it's comfortable. The version you're embarrassed by teaches you more than the version you're proud of. - Privacy isn't a feature — it's a default. If we can build something without collecting data, we do. The burden is on us to justify the exceptions. - No agencies, no investors. We are the team. - Earned, not marketed. Growth from users telling other users, not from paid reviews or hacks. **Where we are based.** Stuart Park, Northern Territory, Australia. Subject to Australian privacy law (Privacy Act 1988 and the Australian Privacy Principles). --- ## Products ### Shift It > Live. https://shiftit.greatworkeveryone.com A shift work calendar and pay checker for Australia and the UK. iOS and Android. 5.0 App Store rating from paying subscribers. **What it does.** - Imports your roster from a spreadsheet, calendar, or rotation pattern. - Shows shifts in a colour-coded calendar with widgets, Live Activities, and a Dynamic Island presence. - Calculates what you should be paid under your award and compares that to your payslip line by line. **Who it's for.** Shift workers whose pay depends on penalty rates, overtime, and allowances: nurses, midwives, paramedics, junior doctors, hospitality, fast food, fitness, community and disability services (SCHADS), FIFO, mining, NHS doctors in training. **Privacy.** Shifts, pay data, and settings stay on your device. No user account, no sign-up. AI-based roster extraction (for unusual formats) is the only exception and files are deleted immediately after processing. **Stores.** - iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/shift-it-your-work-calendar/id6478290000 - Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.greatworkeveryone.shiftit ### Paperplane > In development. Waitlist open. A consumer app that takes the chaos out of gift-giving — from start to smile. **The problem.** Gift-giving is a never-ending task spread across dozens of people and occasions, managed through mental notes, group chats, and last-minute panic. Paperplane replaces all of that. **What makes it different.** - Built around the complexity — not just finding the perfect present, crafting the whole experience. - Gets better the more you use it. The longer you use it, the less you have to think about it. - Designed for people who care about the thought. "Paperplane" is a codename. Public name will be finalised before launch. ### Command Centre > In development. Custom build for a commercial operator. An integrated operations dashboard purpose-built for a commercial property business. Facilities management, tenancy scheduling, job tracking, and reporting — one pane of glass replacing twelve. **The problem.** Real operational businesses run on a patchwork of spreadsheets, emails, and legacy tools that don't speak to each other. Command Centre replaces that patchwork — deeply, for one operator at a time. **Results so far.** - About 30 hours reclaimed per week from manual reconciliation and copy-paste. - Tenancy and job tracking tightened gaps that were quietly leaking future revenue. **How we build it.** Deeply for one operator, architected to generalise. Custom platforms that don't feel generic. Commissions available — contact us. "Command Centre" is a working name. --- ## Founders ### Dr Connor Randazzo Co-founder, product and operations. Medical doctor trained at the University of Melbourne. Australian and Italian citizen, based in Darwin. Speaks from the front line: hospital shift worker, product builder, writer on privacy and primary care informatics. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/connorrandazzo/. ### William McDonald Co-founder, engineering and infrastructure. Physicist by training. Builds the systems that don't break when the user does something unexpected. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/william-d-mcdonald/. --- ## Engineering notes (blog) Field notes from shipping apps. Drafted with AI, written by us. ### Liquid Glass worked in Expo SDK 54. Then we upgraded to 55. > /blog/liquid-glass-expo-sdk-55-regression · 14 min read · Published 2026-04-11, updated 2026-04-16 Six months of stable Liquid Glass on expo-glass-effect, broken by the SDK 55 upgrade. Three weeks of remediation, two parallel glass paths, a pile of workarounds — three retired by the latest Expo patches, two still biting in production. Covers: expo-ui SwiftUI host setup, RNHostView children crash on device rotation, didMoveToWindow race conditions, and a wider question about what a cross-platform Glass primitive could look like. Target audience: React Native / Expo developers wrestling with SDK 55 Liquid Glass regressions. ### What we wish we'd known before debugging React Native touches on Fabric > /blog/react-native-fabric-touch-and-gesture-debugging · 11 min read · Published 2026-04-15 Six concrete things that cost us a weekend on our Expo SDK 55 app: Modal UIWindow isolation, the pointerEvents prop trap, PanResponder swallowing child taps, when to reach for a Portal-based custom sheet instead of @gorhom/bottom-sheet. Evidence-led, with specific reproductions and fixes. Target audience: React Native devs working on New Architecture (Fabric) apps where Modal/Portal/PanResponder interactions break. ### The update that wasn't going to ship. > /blog/the-update-that-wasnt-going-to-ship · 4 min read · Published 2026-04-15 A note on capability, capacity, and the small projects that will see the light of day thanks to recent advancements in agentic AI. We had a product so much work away from what we wanted that it wasn't going to ship. Claude Code changed that calculus. Target audience: indie developers, solo founders, and anyone weighing whether AI coding agents change what a small team can build. --- ## How we work We're two people. We don't use agencies. We haven't taken investment. We pick problems we live with, then build the tool we wish existed. We ship embarrassing first versions, measure honestly, and iterate. We write our own code. AI (Claude and others) is part of the stack — we draft with it, we review the output, and we take responsibility for what ships. The content on this blog is drafted with AI and edited by us. We're explicit about that. We don't sell attention or data. We don't run advertising. We don't do SEO hacks. If this page ranks, it's because it's genuinely useful. --- ## Commission custom work Command Centre is an example of our commissioning model: we build deeply for one operator, architected to generalise. If you run a specialised operations business and the software you use doesn't fit, we might be the right partners. We take on a small number of engagements. We don't take on work we don't believe in. Contact: hello@greatworkeveryone.com or https://greatworkeveryone.com/contact. --- ## Contact - Email: hello@greatworkeveryone.com - Contact form: https://greatworkeveryone.com/contact - LinkedIn (studio): https://linkedin.com/company/great-work-everyone - LinkedIn (Connor): https://www.linkedin.com/in/connorrandazzo/ - LinkedIn (William): https://www.linkedin.com/in/william-d-mcdonald/ Messages go to a human inbox and receive a real reply, usually within a few working days.