An independent story studio · Est. 2024
Lonely lights, connected by a story.
We illuminate the wonders of science through story. We're building a home for the curious, a studio to bring its stories to the screen, and a way to send the light back to the people making the impossible real.
The course so far
- 2018A story takes form
- 2021Strangers plan an interstellar voyage
- 2024Lonely Lights is founded
- Soon · Q1 2027Undaunted opens
- NextExpand storytelling mediums
"Curiosity needs a place to go."
From the rooms that started it all
In 2021, hundreds of strangers came back week after week to live rooms about Martian cities, asteroid supply chains and generation ships. The rooms emptied when the world reopened, but the lesson stayed. Undaunted is that place: a home for the curious, where real science is told as story and anyone can take the stage.
Learn about Undaunted →Opening soon · Q1 2027
Undaunted. A home for the curious.
Curiosity needed a place to go. In Undaunted, it finds its people: cohorts that begin with one shared question and stay together long after, from campus tech groups to lifelong stargazers.
Why the mark has a wave
The blue wave in the Undaunted mark is the shape of the galaxy we live in. The Milky Way's disk is gently warped, and close to the Sun the Radcliffe Wave ripples through a chain of star-forming gas. Our logo is that wave, exaggerated a little.
Open source · Builders of the possible
Tools we built, given back.
When we build something other teams could use, we share it. The light is meant to travel.
v0.1.0 · MIT
Prosetta
Translate a Laravel app with AI, and keep people in charge of what goes live.
$ composer require lonely-lights/prosetta
- Your source
- Prosetta reads your source language and never writes to it.
- Any AI
- Plug in a small driver class. No AI client is bundled.
- Checked
- Every draft is checked for broken placeholders, plurals and HTML.
- Reviewed
- Designate your translators and reviewers for each language, with one callback.
- Hands-off
- An optional background cycle keeps every language current, and stops cleanly when a provider is down or a budget runs out.
- Headless
- No built-in admin screen, so the review UI fits your app.
About · Lonely Lights LLC
A small studio with a very long view.
Lonely Lights is an independent studio founded in 2024 to illuminate the wonders of science through story. Today it's a studio of one, and everyone who has joined the light along the way.
The founder
Andrew K. Hartley
Andrew writes science fiction and can't leave the science alone. His first story, begun in 2018, is where Lonely Lights started.
Since then he has spent his evenings among people who look up. In 2021 he joined Small Steps & Giant Leaps on Clubhouse and soon led rooms of his own, from designing a generation ship with strangers to plotting its trip at a fraction of light speed. Curiosity, he learned, just needs a place to go.
- 2018
- Writes the story that sparks the vision
- 2021
- Joins Small Steps & Giant Leaps, the largest space club on Clubhouse, and leads rooms
- 2021
- Starts building what becomes Undaunted
- 2024
- Founds Lonely Lights LLC
- Soon · Q1 2027
- Undaunted opens
What we hold to
01Tell the truth about the science
Stories can stretch, but the rules underneath them are real. When we exaggerate, we say so.
02Keep people in charge of the tools
Prosetta's reviewers approve every translation before it goes live. AI proposes; people decide.
03Keep every promise on the record
Every version of our privacy policy and terms stays public and unchanged, so you can always see what you agreed to.
Careers · Collaborators
We're a studio of one. For now.
There are no open roles yet. There is a lot of work worth doing, and we'd love to hear from people who want to do some of it with us.
TranslatorsHelp Undaunted speak every language
Review AI drafts in your language and keep the voice right. That's exactly what Prosetta was built for.
MusiciansScore stories about the possible
Our first piece of music is already written. The stories ahead will need many more.
Programmers · ArtistsBuild worlds with us
Interactive science, illustration, simulation and open source. If it makes the future feel buildable, we're interested.
Licensing and development partners are welcome too. Tell us what you make, what you care about, and what you'd want to build.
Careers & collaborationcareers@lonelylights.com
Contact
Every light starts by reaching out.
Questions, ideas, collaborations or a simple hello. A person reads every message.
Write to us
Generalcontact@lonelylights.com
Careerscareers@lonelylights.com
Press & marketingmarketing@lonelylights.com
Partnershipssales@lonelylights.com
Open sourceopensource@lonelylights.com
Privacy · Version 1 · Effective 28 September 2026
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