Arcarae is an app Amy is beta testing or developing as of March 2026. It involves star birth animations, galaxy visuals, and archetypes with sigils.
What's Known
Almost nothing. Amy signed the Apple Developer Program License Agreement on March 30, 2026, under her existing Apple Developer account (Team Amy Zhou, JUBFND4JUY). The app name "Arcarae" appears in connection with this activity. The subject matter (star births, galaxies, archetypes, sigils) suggests something at the intersection of astronomy and mysticism, possibly a creative or meditative app rather than a productivity tool.
What It Might Mean
If Amy is building Arcarae herself, it represents the first solo software project she has worked on since leaving Taya. Unlike Cute Ghostty (a config wrapper) or Hardware Craft Night (physical event), Arcarae would be a shipped iOS application under her own developer account.
If she is beta testing someone else's app, it suggests she is still plugged into the indie app ecosystem and curious about design directions that have nothing to do with manufacturing or industrial design.
Either way, it is notable that Amy is engaging with her Apple Developer account at all. She paid for it, she maintained it through the Taya era, and she is using it now. The developer account is the quiet infrastructure of someone who has not stopped thinking about building things, even during the "chill job" era.
The Name
"Arcarae" sounds like a portmanteau of "arcana" and some astronomical suffix. The sigils and archetypes suggest tarot or astrology influences. This is a side of Amy that does not appear in her public manufacturing-focused posts or her diary's startup-trauma processing. It is the person who minored in Music at Stanford and studied abroad in Berlin; the one who has interests that do not fit neatly into a LinkedIn bio.