Made after hours - each a small, working answer to a "what happens when..." question about AI. Built for myself first, then left online. Some are live, some are open source, and the list keeps growing.
the future is hyper-personal - and taste, not volume, is the scarce thing
An open-source engine that reads hundreds of sources a day, filters out 99% of the noise, and prints a hyper-personal magazine you can hold.
what it taught meSubtraction was the hard part, not the tech. A quiet news day has to make a quiet issue, or you stop trusting it.
no one can hear it all - so you ask it instead of consuming it
Transcript-backed search for more podcasts than anyone could hear - ask a question, get the exact episode and timestamp behind the answer.
what it taught meTrust comes from receipts. Grounding every answer in a timestamped clip was the product, not the model.
now that execution is cheap, what you make is the only signal left
A local-first search engine that finds interesting makers worldwide by what they build, not their follower count or marketing noise.
what it taught meWhere you spend the model matters more than which model - cheap work at scale, the costly call only on what survives.
small native software still wins the things the web fumbles
A native macOS app that stacks what you copy and pastes it back one item at a time - built for one, now used by others.
what it taught mePeople don't want a clipboard that remembers everything. They want one they can hand back in order, then forget.
writing is high-friction; the interface becomes voice and memory
A voice companion you phone at the end of the day - it listens, then remembers you next time.
what it taught meJournaling dies because writing is work. Making the front door a phone call - no app, no login - mattered more than any feature.
own the agent, don't rent it
A personal AI agent on a Mac mini that answers from anywhere and costs nothing per call.
what it taught meAn agent you can't see is one you stop trusting. The host mattered more than the model.
everything changes once an agent has a body
An always-on voice agent for a Reachy Mini robot, with a two-tier brain and choreographed movement.
what it taught meGive an agent a body and the bar jumps: a confident wrong move is worse than a wrong answer. Latency had to come first.
software that authors its own art
A tiny desktop companion who walks your dock and reacts to what your Mac is actually doing.
what it taught meThe constraint was the unlock. The app only cross-fades PNGs, so a new character is a new folder, not a rewrite.
the future of this is people in a room, offline
An offline, in-person gathering for builders, curated by what you've actually shipped.
what it taught meCurate the room, not the content. Who's in it decides whether it's worth showing up.
Boring, reliable work is code; work that needs taste is the model. I spend the expensive effort where it counts and nowhere else - and I care whether a thing is trustworthy, not just whether it demos. Same instinct on the platform and in the lab.
