SimplyKnown
your doomscrolling companion
SimplyKnown is a small workshop run by one person. It makes short history and science videos, and it builds the software that makes them — plus a few tools that turned out to be useful enough to open up to everyone else.
What this is
A workshop, not a company
Everything under simplyknown.co is built and run by one operator. There is no team, no funding round, and no growth plan. Each project started as a problem worth solving once — a video that took too long to assemble by hand, a property spreadsheet that never stayed current, a tablet a toddler could actually be handed.
The public face is @simplyknownfacts, a set of short-form channels posting roughly one-minute history and science videos. Those videos are produced by the Video Creator pipeline, which is itself one of the projects here.
Two surfaces are open to anyone: the TikTok posting tool, which sends a finished video file to your own TikTok drafts, and the topic board, where you can suggest and upvote what gets made next. The rest are private apps for work and family, listed here for completeness rather than as an invitation.
At a glance
- One operator. Everything on this domain is built and maintained by the same person.
- Two tools are open to the public; four apps are private and sit behind a sign-in.
- No analytics, no advertising, no cross-site tracking cookies on these pages.
- Nothing here charges money, and there is no SimplyKnown account to create.
- Contact goes to one inbox: simplyknownfacts@gmail.com.
Open to everyone
The public tools
No sign-up, no account with SimplyKnown, no charge.
TikTok Posting Toolopen
Connect your own TikTok account, upload a finished video file, and it lands in your TikTok inbox as a draft. You write the caption and press publish inside the TikTok app — the tool never posts to your feed for you.
Suggest a Topicopen
A public board for the @simplyknownfacts channels. Post an idea for a short, upvote the ones you want made, and watch what rises to the top. The most-wanted topics get built.
The projects
Everything under this domain
Six projects, one operator. The private ones require a sign-in and are listed so the picture is complete — there is a fuller description of each on the apps page.
Video Creatoropen
The studio behind @simplyknownfacts — idea to script to narration to artwork to a finished one-minute short, with a person reviewing every stage.
TikTok Posting Toolopen
A free web tool for creators: hand a video file to your own TikTok drafts without emailing it to yourself or plugging in a cable.
SimplyKnown Kidsprivate
A calm tablet for ages 0–5 — games, early learning, drawing, and a small walled garden of watching. Built for one household first.
LANDprivate
A property deal-finder that scores every listing against a configurable buy box, so a search returns a verdict instead of a wall of photos.
SK ERPprivate
Sales and procurement, end to end: job walk, quote, RFQ, purchase order, receiving, invoice — with the approvals and paperwork attached to each step.
Carsprivate
Vehicle inventory and customer records for a small car operation — what is on the lot, what it cost, and who asked about it.
For TikTok creators
Get a video off your desktop and into TikTok
If you edit on a computer and post from your phone, the last step is usually the worst one: emailing the file to yourself, or waiting on a cable and a cloud sync. The posting tool removes that step. You sign in with TikTok's own login, choose the file, and TikTok puts it in your inbox as a draft.
- It never sees your password. Sign-in happens on TikTok's own page, through TikTok Login Kit.
- It never publishes for you. The video arrives as a draft; you caption it and post it yourself.
- It keeps nothing. The file is relayed to TikTok during the upload and is not stored afterwards.
- MP4, MOV or WebM, up to 64 MB, one video at a time.
How these are built
Plain pages, small pieces
Every surface here is a static page — hand-written HTML and CSS, no build step and no framework to go stale. They are served from Cloudflare's network; the handful of pieces that need a server are single-purpose functions rather than a monolith sitting behind the site.
That has a practical consequence worth stating plainly: these pages carry no analytics script, no advertising, and no cross-site tracking. The only cookies anything here sets are the ones the TikTok tool needs to know that your browser is connected, and they are described in full in the privacy policy.
Questions, bug reports, or a data request? Everything reaches the same inbox — see the contact page, or read the help & FAQ first.