Crone's Hacks is an independent Android studio making focused apps — no ads, no selling your data, free to start. Pick the door that fits you.
Two apps for everyday life, plus a separate screening tool built for veterans-disability law firms. Nothing here needs an account to look around.
All three doors are shown here — the full law-firm section is further down, in its own quiet room.
Scan food, see carbs first. Free · Premium $4.99/mo.
Every item is cut in your size — no dead ends. Free to start.
Consistent intake screening for veterans-disability firms.
The apps
Research on pages that actually convert is blunt about this: one clear choice per product beats three competing buttons. So each app gets one door, one promise, and its price up front.
Carb-First Food Scanner
Point your camera at a label or a plate and get the carb count up front — not buried under calories. Built for mixed, home-cooked food, with an oil & ghee correction and your regular dishes saved.
Free — 5 scans a week, no card · Premium $4.99/mo
Plus-Size Shopping
A shopping app where every single item comes in your size. No filtering out straight sizes, no clicking through to “not available in plus.” Stores are researched for real 18W+ ranges.
Free to start · Premium membership — pricing to be announced
No ad banners, no house ads for other apps inside the apps.
What each app collects — and doesn't — is spelled out on its own page below.
Try the real thing free. Premium is billed through Google Play, cancel anytime.
Support email is answered by the person who built the app. See Support.
Product 1 · Android
Fast scans, a carb-first results screen, and your data stays yours. This is a working sketch of the flow — tap through it.
Point the camera at a barcode, a nutrition label, or a plate of food. The demo uses one real-style example all the way through — no stock photos, just the screens you'd actually see.
Food photos are used to produce your scan result. The full, app-specific privacy page will list exactly what is processed, where, and how long anything is kept — and it will match the app's Google Play Data safety answers word for word. Carb figures are information to help you decide; the app does not diagnose, treat, or manage any condition.
$0
$4.99/month
The scanner isn't on Google Play yet. Leave one email and you'll get one short note on launch day — nothing else. Pre-registration on Google Play (up to 90 days before launch, with a launch-day notification from Play itself) comes next.
$4.99/month, billed through Google Play. Cancel anytime in Google Play — no email-us-to-cancel runaround.
Barcodes, nutrition labels, and plates of food — including mixed home-cooked dishes, where you'll get a carb range and ingredient breakdown instead of a single made-up-precise number.
No. It gives you carb information about food. It doesn't diagnose or manage any condition — talk to your own clinician about medical choices.
On a computer? When the Play listing is live, this spot will carry a “Scan to get it on your phone” code next to the official Google Play badge. On your phone, you'll just see the badge.
Product 2 · Android
Clothes from retailers you know, gathered in one app built only for sizes 18W and up. If it isn't made in your size, it isn't here. Try the rail:
Sample rail for illustration — every card states its real size range, because the range is the product. The live app links out to each retailer's own page.
Your sizes and preferences are sensitive-adjacent data and get explicit treatment on this app's own privacy page: what's stored, what's never shared, and how to delete it. No selling your data — same rule as every Crone's Hacks app.
$0
Pricing to be announced
One email, one launch note. This list is only for the clothing app — it's never merged with the scanner list.
Also from Crone's Hacks: the Carb-First Scanner — the one quiet cross-link each app page carries. The law-firm tool is never promoted inside the consumer apps.
For veterans-disability law firms
A structured screening flowchart for your intake team — consistent screening, a written summary for every inquiry, maintained as VA rules change. Your staff screen; your attorneys decide. The tool documents — it doesn't determine.
Sample screening summary · Veteran: ██████ · Inquiry date: ████
Stage 1 — Could this be service-connected?
Current condition noted · Service event noted · Possible link flagged for attorney review. Presumptive-list check: flagged for review.
Stage 2 — If connected, roughly what rating?
Conditions screened separately, then combined using the VA combined-ratings method (Table I, 38 CFR §4.25) — e.g. 50% + 30% combines to 65, which rounds to 70%, never a straight 80.
Outcome: Pathways worth reviewing — not an eligibility decision. Discharge character is never an automatic “no”: since a 2024 rule change, exceptions exist that only a human can judge.
The flowchart follows the VA's own structure: first the service-connection gates in 38 CFR Part 3 (current disability, in-service event, and the link between them — plus the presumptive-condition lists, including the PACT Act additions), then rating under Part 4 and combined ratings via Table I (§4.25). When VA rules change, the screening is updated by Crone's Hacks and the change is logged for firms.
This is a screening aid. It does not determine eligibility, it is not legal advice, and it never replaces an accredited attorney's judgement on any matter. Fees in this field are regulated — firms may charge only after an initial decision, 20% of past-due benefits is the presumed-reasonable fee — which is why the lease is a flat monthly fee, never a share of cases.
The screening is designed to run without Crone's Hacks retaining your clients' information: screening answers are processed to produce the summary your firm keeps. The full data-handling statement — what is entered, whether anything is stored, retention and deletion — is provided in writing with the pilot terms, before any client information is ever entered.
Monthly lease, per firm. Comparable intake tools lease for roughly $49–$149 per firm per month; the exact Crone's Hacks pilot price is provided with the pilot terms — pilot pricing to be confirmed, and no firm is asked to commit before seeing a sample screening and full terms, including exit terms.
Four short fields and one optional note — that's it. You'll get a reply from the maker within one business day with pilot terms and a sample screening. Prefer to look first? Use “See a sample screening” above.
Open books
Google Play's organization account requires a real website on your own domain, verified in Search Console, with contact emails on that domain. Here's the honest year-one maths behind this one — prices as checked by the research sources in Sep–Nov 2026; re-check on purchase day, because the .com wholesale price itself rose on 1 Nov 2026.
| Item | Choice | Cost | Watch out for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Domain (.com) | Cloudflare Registrar — at cost, no markup | ≈ $11.17/yr | Registrars with cheap first year, punitive renewal |
| Hosting | Cloudflare Pages — static, free | $0 | GitHub Pages & Vercel Hobby forbid business use; new Netlify free pauses at 300 credits/mo |
| Email on your domain | Cloudflare Email Routing — receive-only | $0 | It can't send as your domain — fine at launch, not a forever support desk |
| Email upgrade | Google Workspace Starter — real send-as mailbox | $7/user/mo, billed annually ($84/yr) | Only needed once support mail is real |
| Google Play | Organization developer account | $25 one-time | Needs a free D-U-N-S number — budget time, not money; beware paid D-U-N-S services |
| Year one, lean (domain + Play, free hosting & email) | ≈ $36 | ||
| Year one, with Google Workspace for one user | ≈ $120 | ||
The domain this site is designed for is cronehacks.com — spelling matters. Whether that exact name is free can only be confirmed at a registrar on the day; this page doesn't claim it's available.
Why the site looks like this
This page was designed from conversion research, not a template. The strongest evidence in the field is about speed and clarity; the famous tricks mostly aren't. Sources are linked so you can check every claim.
STRONG — Speed
Pages loading in ~1s converted at ~3.05% vs ~0.67% at 4s across 100M+ page views (Portent, 2022); +0.1s of mobile speed lifted retail conversions 8.4% (Deloitte/Google, 2020). That's why this site is hand-built static HTML with no hero video. Speed research
STRONG — First screenful & plain words
Users spend ~57% of viewing time in the first screenful (NN/g eyetracking, 2018), and pages at a 5th–7th-grade reading level converted at 11.1% vs 5.3% for “professional” copy (Unbounce, 41,000+ pages, 2024). Hence: what, who, and what-next — immediately, in plain language. NN/g · Unbounce SaaS
STRONG — Prices up front
Costs revealed late are the #1 stated reason shoppers abandon (~40% of buyers with intent, Baymard). So prices sit on the page — and where a price isn't set yet, the page says so instead of hiding it. NN/g on trust & disclosure
MYTH — “Video lifts conversions 86%”
That figure traces to a single 2009 vendor case. Unbounce's ~35,000-page analysis found video pages flat-to-worse. No autoplay video here — the product's own screens do the persuading, the way Halide and Plausible lead with output, not adjectives.
MYTH — “Red buttons beat green”
CXL: no colour wins; contrast does. Turquoise earns its place here only where contrast passes — bright turquoise (#40E0D0) is 1.64:1 on white and fails WCAG AA for text, so it carries near-black text, while buttons on white use a dark teal verified for contrast. CXL on button colour
HONEST GAP — No testimonials yet
Reviews genuinely help (Spiegel Research Center: a product with 5 reviews had 270% greater purchase likelihood than none) — and a brand-new studio has none. So this site substitutes demonstration: real flows, real prices, real limits. No invented quotes, counts, or logos — perfect-looking proof persuades less, and fake proof is a legal problem besides.
Benchmark honesty: the all-industry median landing-page conversion is 6.6% and SaaS is 3.8% (Unbounce, 2024) — those are for dedicated campaign pages, so a new studio homepage routing to waitlists shouldn't be judged against them. Headline and button-copy claims in the wild (“first-person copy +90%”) rest on single old tests; treat every headline on this page as a direction to test, not a proven formula.
About & support
Crone's Hacks is a one-person independent studio. These apps exist because the big versions of them didn't work for the people who needed them most — a carb counter that buries the carb count, shops that stop at a size 14, a benefits system that's hardest to navigate for the veterans with the least. Small isn't a limitation here; it's why the apps are careful. Support email is read by the maker.
support@cronehacks.com — app help, billing questions (Premium is billed by Google Play), bug reports.
hello@cronehacks.com — everything else. Law firms: please use the pilot form so nothing gets lost.
⚠ These addresses are placeholders until cronehacks.com is registered and email is set up — see the cost breakdown. Each app will also get its own privacy page, plus site-wide Terms and an account-deletion page, before anything launches on Google Play — Play requires a public privacy-policy page (not a PDF) linked from the listing and inside the app, even for apps that collect nothing.