Ambidextrous

Apps · A personal hello for everyone new

Ohayo Desk

A little desk for welcoming people properly: it lines up everyone new to you, you record a short hello on your phone, and Ohayo emails it from your own address. Then it shows you who watched.

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Ohayo Desk on a phone resting on a book, beside a woven hat
Status
Live since 2 October 2026, in early access
Platform
An installable web app, made for your phone
For
Founders, creators, coaches, service providers, and property and insurance agents
Brings people in from
Any form or CRM through Zapier or Make, GoHighLevel, or a CSV import
Name
Ohayo means good morning in Japanese
Built in
Singapore

Why I built it

I built Ohayo to welcome the people who sign up for my own apps, Chico and Chord. So much of what arrives in an inbox now is automated or written by AI, which makes the human side matter even more. I want everyone new to meet the real person behind the app, and a short video where I say their name does that, and builds trust from the first day.

Recording a hello takes thirty seconds. Knowing who’s new each morning, getting the video to them from my own address, and seeing whether they watched was the part that needed a desk of its own.

The problem

Welcoming people one by one takes more than an impersonal email

Who it’s for

For anyone who likes to welcome people properly

What it does

Inside Ohayo Desk

Ohayo Desk: Your morning list

Your morning list

Everyone new appears in a queue, oldest first, and your phone buzzes. Someone back for a second product comes with a note, such as “Welcomed for Chico on 4 Sept · watched 80%”.

Thirty seconds, in your own words

Record in the app with your script rolling up over the camera, a soft glow and a blurred background. Hellos stop at thirty seconds.

Ohayo Desk: The email they get

The email they get

Sent from your own domain (on the Pro plan and up), with a moving preview of your video and a greeting that gets names right: “david and leanne” becomes David and Leanne.

Ohayo Desk: The watch page

The watch page

In each product’s own colours and fonts, with a button to send back an emoji or a few words.

Ohayo Desk: See who watched

See who watched

Sent, opened and watched, average watch time, reactions, and whether the people who watched stay active longer.

Ohayo Desk: People arrive by themselves

People arrive by themselves

From Chico and Chord, from any form or CRM through Zapier, Make or GoHighLevel, or from a CSV with a join-date cut-off.

Its own look

A sun coming up over a desk

Ohayo has its own look, apart from Ambidextrous. A light orange half sun rises over an indigo line, which is both the horizon and the edge of your desk. Notes sit on white rice paper with pastel washi tape across the top, and the buttons look like soft highlighter strokes.

The Ohayo Desk logo on rice paper, the app icons, and its colours: light orange, indigo, sumi ink and rice paperWashi tape in five pastels, and three rice-paper notes from the app

How it was made

Two hands

Ohayo Desk was built with agentic assistance, with tests running on every change. What a hello should feel like is the part that was mine.

The agents’ hand

  • The phone recorder, with a teleprompter that rolls up by itself, the glow and blur filters, and the thirty-second limit.
  • Turning each hello into a video, a poster and a moving email preview, and sending it from the user’s own domain on the Pro plan and up.
  • Bringing people in from Chico, Chord, Zapier, Make, GoHighLevel and CSV files, with a phone buzz as they arrive.
  • The reports, from opens and watch time to whether people who watched stay active, with a CSV export.

My hand

  • Deciding a hello should be thirty seconds or less, recorded in your own words.
  • Greeting people the way a person would: two names become two names, shouting capitals become a name, and initials get “Hi there” with a note to check.
  • Remembering who has been welcomed before, so a second signup comes with the history of the first hello.
  • Giving Ohayo a gentle morning look of its own: the rising sun, rice paper and washi tape.
  • Making sure everyone who asks about Ohayo gets a hello made with Ohayo first.

Where it’s heading

What’s next

Ohayo Desk is in its early days. If you’d like it for your own signups, clients or leads, leave your name on the intro page and you’ll get a hello from me, made with Ohayo.

Visit ohayodesk.com

Write to me

About an app, copy, training or a talk. I'd love to hear what you're working on.

Get in touch

or email hi@ambidextrouslabs.com