Production projects and serious side work — the stuff worth talking about.
“Wanted my IDE, terminal, browser preview, and notes on one canvas instead of tabbed away into separate windows. Built it for Linux first because that's where I work.”
“My friends and I spent too much time on MonkeyType. Building our own seemed like the obvious next step — and a better excuse to keep going.”
“Spent too many hours on LucidChart making research diagrams look right. Decided the better investment was building something that does it for me.”
“Wanted post-game analysis without uploading PGNs to a third party. Stockfish in the browser, an LLM that explains the why, and a board that scrubs through moves like a video.”
“Every PDF editor I tried flattened or re-rasterised on save. Wanted one that touches the file as little as the change demands — and ships native on Linux.”
“Postman kept asking me to sign in to make a GET request. Built a client that runs entirely in the tab and forgets nothing because it never sent anything anywhere.”
“Reading news on mobile means skimming intros and bouncing. Wanted a share-sheet button that hands me 3 sentences before I commit to the whole page.”
“For the rare days I read something worth keeping — a paper, something technical. It captured the insight and pushed it to Notion before I could close the tab.”
“Everyone trains models. Almost nobody tracks when they start degrading. I wanted an alarm for when the black box quietly goes wrong.”