Osrik grew from a concrete observation: many applications launching at the same time made Windows systems of the era unnecessarily sluggish. Instead of merely recommending settings, we developed our own tool to analyse startup entries and launch selected applications in a controlled sequence.
The project reflects an approach that still shapes PoW24 today: understand a real problem, build software ourselves, test it in practice and explain it so others can use it. In 2012 – long before generative AI became an everyday development tool – that work led to our first experience with the press.
