Projects

A native Slack app that helps teams get organized right where they work. Track tasks, gather feedback with polls, and keep in-sync with syncups.

Kill the meeting and keep work moving.

Every month since January 2018, I have created a playlist on Spotify that is the music that I discover that month.

It's like a time capsule of music discovery and I wanted to automate it a bit.

Mixtape is an app that connects to your Spotify or Apple Music and creates a time capsuled playlist when you favorite a song.

It's a dope-ass passion project that scratches my love of music.

An open source Elixir library for building chatbots like web application frameworks such as Phoenix or Ruby on Rails.

I built this as a necessity for building Tatsu and I thought others may benefit from it as well.

A podcast I do with my friend Keith about the software industry, development, and entrepreneurship.

There are currently 79 episodes out, then we took a hiatus. Will we be back?

My most ambitious tiny project. A web, mobile, and Mac app that displayed progress on a timer from a central server.

I tried to build a pomodoro app that made it fun to do tasks together instead of just in silos.

This made for a very fun project, I learned Elixir OTP, and I made a lot of content for speaking and writing.

An open source Slack app that really ties Slack together by helping users find cocktail bars, bowling alleys, and dispensaries near a location.

It was an example app built on Juvet for a talk I gave at nerd conferences.

I wanted to try my hand at building a larger agency with friends and I failed.

I thought just the magic formula of getting the best people would be the simple recipe to success.

We launched with a big bang, did some really fun work, but it went out with a whimper. I found I like small.

I co-founded Toledo Ohio's first coworking space with two other buddies back in 2012. We funded it via a small infusion of cash and a successful Kickstarter campaign.

It was a wild ride and I learned a ton about community, physical businesses, and myself. A Covid casualty but I'm proud of what we built.

Live in-person training events with myself and Keith, who was an employee at the time, for software developers interested in Ruby on Rails.

I have a love for teaching and I decided to do workshops after years of speaking.

It went amazingly delicious, we got a lot of great feedback, and some graduates even got Ruby jobs. 🤘

We poured so much time into this and built a whole new app with the class but we only gave this training a handful of times.

A web app for developers to schedule webhooks like cron jobs.

I got sick of building the same background job system that took into account timezone changes and so I built it and made it into a service for all to use.

A new chat application that focused on human and bot interactions in threaded conversations.

Then I started hearing about this new startup called Slack.

A web and desktop application that enabled photographers to upload photos they took at weddings or any other event so the attendees could download them.

It was a fun software-adjacent business. It was short-lived since my business partners took off with all the money from the events we had. Cool.

I got tired of entering calendar information for my kids events when I knew there were others that already did it and I just wanted to copy theirs.

Koki was a web app that contained a marketplace of shared calendars so you could simply import calendars and events you cared about.

I did not really know how to sell this and so I abandoned it but I still think it's a great idea.

A web app that allowed you to create tasks using natural language within a magic textbox.

My first foray into SaaS and the first software product I launched.

My agentic-programming workflow in a cli-tool.

A mobile and voice app as a present to my wife.

Everyone hates grocery shopping and my wife does the majority of it. It's time for AI to do this shit instead of pretending to 'create art'.

A hardware/software experiment to build a soundproof booth to measure the strength of your screams.

Everyone needs this because of all the waves hands in all directions.

A cathartic measurement device for the apocalypse.

Coming to a street corner near you soon-ish.