Building in public
I make a lot of tools. Some are serious revenue systems, some are free public experiments, and some are just too useful or funny to keep on my own machine.
Best first tools
Directory
This is the shelf, not a perfect portfolio. Open the useful stuff, poke at the experiments, and use the private-preview section when you want to talk about the serious systems behind the scenes.
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Live
AI diagnostic
Score readiness, friction, and first-move potential before wasting energy on the wrong AI initiative.
Best for AI-curious operators who want a real first move, not hype.
Best for owner-operators and small teams trying to identify which AI workflow deserves the first serious build.
Live
Creator workflow
Build carousel-ready photo layouts without opening a heavy design app for a straightforward export job.
Best for Photographers who need clean carousel exports without design-app drag.
Built from real photo-delivery pressure: drop images, generate clean slide layouts, preview the carousel, export fast.
Dashboard
Market-cap rank, movement, liquidity placement, and nearby comps from one operator-friendly screen.
Best for Market watchers who need rank context without five tabs open.
A focused screen for market watchers who want rank context without five open tabs and manual copy assembly.
Live PWA
Field tool
A GPS-first restroom finder for downtown Savannah with ranked nearby stops, confidence, filters, and directions.
Public experiment A hilarious free utility that may become a real local monetization model.
The funny brand edge hides a serious trust contract: closest plausible bathroom first, honest confidence, no emergency ranking pay-to-play.
Internal
Civic dashboard
A source-labeled accountability dashboard for the adopted $646.3M budget, $203.0M FY26 capital plan, records gaps, contacts, and agenda watch items.
Paid-system proof The kind of source-trail dashboard that can support serious retained work.
Built to ask better questions, not overclaim: every number carries source context and points toward contracts, invoices, ledgers, and council records.
Fleet intelligence
A shareholder-built fleet dashboard for Carnival: live marine weather, simulated fleet movement, route optimization, and fuel exposure framing.
Paid-system proof Fleet, weather, route, and fuel-risk intelligence for serious operators.
Started from the Iran-war fuel-risk question and became a mission-control demo for route, comfort, emissions, PROPEL, and integration handoff.
Live
macOS utility
A private clipboard timeline for macOS with a native-feeling slide-out panel and searchable history.
Best for Mac users who copy, paste, reuse, lose, and re-find context all day.
A small native-feeling utility that solves a daily workflow without turning into a platform.
Learning app
A calm Japanese learning beta with structured lessons, local progress, and speaking practice.
Best for Short homeschool language practice with visible progress.
Built for homeschool structure: short lessons, parent-friendly progress, and less setup drag.
Learning path
An interactive education surface for people who need practical AI clarity before a deeper build.
Best for AI users who want practical judgment before chasing tools.
The ramp for people who need the language, examples, and judgment to use AI without theater.
Live
Photo product
A product surface for slideshow playback, launch prep, support, and photography delivery workflow.
Best for Photographers turning delivery friction into a cleaner product surface.
Built around the practical need to make event and wedding slideshows feel polished without babysitting playback.
Live
Household AI
A parent-led AI setup for house rules, safer kid lanes, approved tools, and practical family workflows.
Best for Parents setting AI rules before random tool use takes over.
The FamilyOS idea has become a standalone offer at calmfamilyai.com: less abstract architecture, more parent-readable implementation.
Beta
Training runtime
The gym app has evolved into an AI-agnostic training runtime: Training Passport out, reviewable AI patches back in.
Best for Lifters reviewing plan changes without cloud lock-in.
Still strength-first and fast in the gym, but now shaped around plan handoff, import review, persistence, patch history, and data export.
Beta
iPhone game
A Wisteria Square wedding survival game: pick a role, swipe red flags, keep five meters alive, and get Maggie and Nico to the getaway car.
Best for Quick iPhone game testing with a sharp party-game premise.
The current launch canon is Wisteria House, Quick Wedding, four roles, five meters, share cards, and release-gate cleanup.
Beta
Game site
A nebula trading comedy with support, privacy, tutorials, and enough art direction to feel real.
Public experiment A browser-game mini-brand built partly to learn in the open.
A full mini-brand wrapped around a game prototype, not just a canvas dropped onto a page.
Family utility
A father-first outing finder built to make family planning simpler and less fragmented.
Best for Choosing the next family outing without losing the thread.
For choosing the next useful family outing without opening a dozen tabs and losing the thread.
Photo ops
A local workflow that sorts photo sets by capture time into event agenda blocks for cleaner gallery organization and delivery review.
Internal workflow Photographer ops proof that belongs deeper on Builds.
Built from the real photo-org need: map a day by timestamp, spot gaps, and turn a pile of images into a gallery sequence that makes sense.
Photo ops
An internal Pic-Time migration and gallery-organization system that extracts manifests, sequences photos, and builds download state.
Internal workflow For photography migration and gallery-ops conversations.
The timestamp/gallery work turned into a durable local operations tool: login flow, manifest parsing, sequential output names, download logs, and quality passes.
Browser arcade
Four themed pinball tables riffing on Helix, AI dystopia, AI utopia, and off-grid calm.
Best for Arcade prototype playtesting and themed table review.
An arcade surface with machine select, cabinet controls, table rules, local scores, and replay energy.
Browser game
A tiny arcade prototype that starts C64-ish, mutates, and turns into a faster modern runner.
Best for A tiny C64-ish browser-game sprint.
A small entertainment experiment with scoring, dash, streaks, and touch controls.
Reading room
A quiet family shelf for book suggestions, reviews, rankings, and reading decisions.
Unlisted Family reading room included here for the index.
Private and intentionally unlisted: a family reading room with submissions, reviews, ranking, and lookup support.
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Private previews
A few builds are private because they touch client workflows, family systems, or serious operating problems. They are included here as proof of range, while the public directory stays easy to open.
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Some of these started as jokes, annoyances, or one-off internal fixes. The good ones become products, client systems, or retained workflows that actually earn their keep.
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