Ideas
Raw concepts and early-stage thinking — not yet built, and not guaranteed to be.
Explorations 6
Software
A personal script that converts ChatGPT conversation exports into searchable, dated markdown files — making months of chat history portable and usable outside the original app.
A written explainer post (what/why/how) is planned for the Writing section — this is a small personal utility, not a hosted project.
Software
A local-first app for sorting a backlog of saved links into action buckets — Read, Summarize, Evaluate, Discard — one at a time, capturing not just where something went but why.
Currently running as a real personal workflow (agents, markdown files, scripts). A written explainer post covering the current setup is planned, and it's a candidate for a short walkthrough video too.
Software
A task-surfacing tool for ADHD and similar attention profiles — instead of a flat to-do list, it shows nine randomly selected, context-filtered tasks at a time, turning "what should I do" into "pick one of these."
Built at my mother's request, for her own use — not originally my own idea. Local-only for now, with a GitHub repo and a temporary Netlify deploy; no official domain yet.
Software
A personal pipeline that captures scattered sources — URLs, PDFs, and eventually spreadsheets — into a structured, searchable local archive, extracting metadata as it goes.
Currently running as a real personal workflow (agents, markdown files, scripts). A written explainer post covering the current setup is planned, and it's a candidate for a short walkthrough video too.
Software
A git-backed markdown vault that runs a daily spaced-repetition interview against a structured question bank across programming and CS fundamentals, reviewed one topic at a time with rubric-scored feedback.
In active daily use. A written explainer post is planned.
Venture
A consulting service for people using AI coding tools to build real things who want honest, human confirmation their project is actually safe to launch or share more widely.
One paid engagement completed already; a written explainer post is planned.
Seeds 19
Conceptual
An interactive 3D topographic visualization of a knowledge domain — elevation, ridge complexity, and radiance encode dependency depth, conceptual richness, and generative power.
Software
A voice-first thinking companion — talk through what you just read or watched, and an agent listens and prompts, tunable from low-pressure affirmation to active examination of what you actually recall.
Software
A broad adaptive self-assessment tool — like ALEKS or Math Academy's diagnostic, but covering the full span of a person's education instead of one subject.
ConceptualGame
A game-agnostic simulation engine for the domains physics engines don't touch — chemistry, geology, material science, biology — where objects behave by real material properties instead of hand-scripting.
Software
A transparency tool for the growing direct-to-consumer lab testing market — surfaces the clinical decision-tree logic doctors actually use to decide which lab tests to order, without making a diagnostic recommendation.
Software
A "Math Academy for physical fitness" — a skill-tree-structured progression tool for bodyweight and calisthenics goals, placing you on the tree by real assessment instead of generic linear sequencing.
SoftwareVenture
A freelancer-first project board that fixes what Upwork, Toptal, and similar platforms get wrong — open bidding races to the bottom, corporate-style vetting gatekeeps access, and there's no real support for open, collaborative scoping.
Game
A top-down historical strategy game exploring production chains and economic systems across a long historical timeline — the more scoped half of a two-part historical game concept.
Game
A first-person historical life sim set in an English village — players can attempt any role, but the world's own friction teaches that specialization wins. The more ambitious second half of the historical game concept, built after the strategy sim above does the work of teaching the underlying systems.
Software
A cross-domain correlation engine that surfaces relationships between financial behavior and the rest of life — sleep, alcohol, mood, habits — instead of just tracking money in and money out.
SoftwareGame
A real-life RPG character-sheet dashboard, inspired by the game Kudos — real-world metrics like workouts and books read show up as gamified stat bars, the way a video game character's attributes would.
Software
A trip-tracking app that auto-builds a structured itinerary from forwarded confirmation emails, paired with a live-updating share view so someone back home can step in and help if something goes wrong.
Software
A local tool that visualizes conceptual connections and cross-discipline links within a personal notes vault — how math concepts build on each other, and link out to physics, biology, and beyond.
Software
A local-first "morning paper" app — configure the sites you visit regularly, pre-fetch them overnight, and browse everything in a minimal reader without hitting the live web during the day.
SoftwareVenture
A personal shopping layer that aggregates trusted retailers and uses a local AI agent to surface options based on taste — optimized for finishing a purchase, not maximizing engagement.
Conceptual
A local-first desktop app platform where apps are self-contained data-and-logic bundles — a native runtime auto-generates a usable interface straight from the data schema, so shipping an app doesn't require UI design skill.
SoftwareVenture
Creator infrastructure for mastery-based online courses — spaced repetition, knowledge-graph structure, and dynamically generated practice, instead of static videos and quizzes.
Software
A pantry intelligence tool that infers what's actually in your kitchen from grocery receipt history, rather than asking anyone to manually log what they eat.
SoftwareVenture
A platform that gets developers a live personal site running in minutes, then keeps it current automatically by turning real activity — commits, PRs, course completions — into suggested blog posts and resume content.