Chicago, Illinois Est. 1972

Conolly Publishing

Est. 1972
About
Independent, and small on purpose

Conolly Publishing is an independent shop based in Chicago, Illinois. What began as a family newspaper is today a one-person software studio, building a small number of tools by hand and keeping them that way.

The work is made to last, not to chase trends. No dark patterns, no selling anyone's data, no gimmicks bolted on for their own sake. Just a few honest tools, looked after by the person who makes them.

The company publishes its software under the Conolly Publishing name across the App Store and beyond.

The Work
What we make now

Daymark

A private notebook

A quiet place to write and keep your notes. Encrypted, and never fed to AI. It syncs across your phone, tablet, Mac, and the web, and keeps working when you're offline.

On the App Store

Goalpost

For the sports desk on Reddit

Runs game day for hockey communities on Reddit — opening and tending game threads, posting live score/stat boards so the moderators don't have to. Working now as nhl-goalpost and pwhl-goalpost, with ahl-goalpost soon.

See it on r/nhlscores

Dinger

For the ballpark on Reddit

Goalpost's baseball sibling. It runs game day for MLB communities on Reddit, opening game threads and posting live scoreboards with every pitch, play and home run, so the moderators don't have to.

See it on r/baseballscores

poli

For election night

US election results from official state feeds: Senate, governor and House races by state, county and district, live on the night and replayable after, with each vote drop and what's left to count.

See it at shkn.ws/poli
Our Name
Where the name comes from
Embossed seal reading Conolly Publishing Ltd., Ontario Corporation

The name is older than any of the software.

Conolly Publishing was the company my parents ran their community newspaper under — The Brighton Independent, in Brighton, Ontario. It's long gone now, but the work they put into it, and the name they built, stayed with me.

I carried it forward for this company to honor their hard work. Their original embosser still sits on my desk; the mark above is its impression, pressed into paper.

Contact
adam@shkn.ws