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side projects
Things I build on nights and weekends. Small, useful, and shipped.
project_01
OpenClaw
One agent. Twenty-nine shipped projects.
A self-hosted AI agent that lives on a VPS and talks to me over WhatsApp. What started as a chatbot became an operating system for my life: it built and maintains the websites on this page, runs the house, manages school logistics, logs meals from photos, doses the pool, and monitors its own reliability. One deployment split across nine specialized workspaces has shipped 29 real projects — and most of them run themselves.
- 29 shipped projects — from public websites to a sprinkler watchdog
- WhatsApp as the universal interface — status, approvals, alerts, and control from one chat
- Nine isolated agent workspaces, each with its own memory, tools, and cron jobs
- Deterministic where it matters — critical automations run as schema-validated pipelines with human approval gates
- Self-healing ops — nightly health checks, daily snapshots, post-upgrade integration dry-runs
project_02
Los Altos List
Neighbor-recommended local services
A community-driven directory of local service providers for the Los Altos neighborhood group — names you can trust, straight from the group. Every listing is backed by real neighbor recommendations with quoted feedback, instead of algorithm-driven reviews.
- Neighbor vouching — each listing shows who recommended it and why
- Updated daily with new recommendations from the group
- Privacy-first — only provider contact details are published, never neighbors'
- Machine-readable — JSON feed plus llms.txt for LLM-friendly access
project_03
DebtStack
How much equity does your fintech actually need?
A debt facility simulator and guide for fintech founders. DebtStack models the debt facility around your plan — warehouse draws, sweeps, losses, opex — month by month, and tells you how much equity you actually need to raise. It now ships with A Founder's Guide to Debt Capital: the full facility lifecycle, from term sheet to facility live, written from the borrower's chair. Free for founders.
- Month-by-month warehouse line simulation
- Multi-product books and sensitivity grids
- Goal seek to size the raise
- Excel export for your data room
- Founder's guide to debt capital — term sheets, true cost, sizing, and lender management
project_04
The United States, 1970–2026
An annual historical review
An interactive databoard reconstructing what each year in America felt like to live through, and judging it in the long light of hindsight. Fifty-seven years, five scored dimensions, one consistent lens.
- 57 annual reports scored on economy, markets, politics, culture, and national mood
- Interactive heatmap and trend charts across the full 1970–2026 run
- Decade-by-decade essays on the arcs that coupled — and came apart
project_05
Reading Log
Everything I read, captured by an AI agent
A personal reading log that captures everything I read — articles, tweets, paywalled subscriptions, native apps, even physical books. There's no parser and no app: a screenshot or a link goes to an AI agent that extracts, summarizes, tags, and dedupes every capture, then publishes this page nightly. The agent even logs into my subscriptions to fetch full articles.
- Capture from anywhere — iPhone Action Button, Mac hotkey, share sheet, or a WhatsApp message
- Content-agnostic — a vision model parses screenshots of anything, no format-specific code
- Handles paywalls — the agent manages logins to my subscriptions on its own
- Auto-summarized and tagged — every entry arrives pre-distilled and searchable
- Activity heatmap and tag filters, rebuilt nightly from a public JSON feed