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Small ideas, each one a little web app or game, about whatever I’m into lately. How they get made · See everything on one page · Research30 ideas
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Brainrotpedia
LaunchedAn endless scroll of real Wikipedia facts, each read aloud with karaoke captions over 3D that suits it (a storm chaser after a tornado for a typhoon, a hydraulic press for a microwave oven). About 10,000 facts come with it and more arrive live. The format is brainrot; the facts are real.
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Midnight Drive-In
LaunchedA drive-in you can walk around, playing public domain films around the clock. There’s an arcade, a Ferris wheel, a carousel, people to talk to, and something hidden.
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Lift Log
LaunchedA gym log that works like your notes app. Write each lift the way you already do (squat 3x8 180), group them into supersets and tick off each set. Mark a lift to go up and it starts heavier next time. On your device only.
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Ball Tag
LaunchedThe backyard game, for a TV and 2 to 8 phones. IT runs for the ball and calls STOP, everyone freezes, and you pivot on one planted foot to dodge the throw. No TV? Play solo against bots. Watch out for the pump fake.
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Inkfolk
LaunchedYou’re a census taker with 33 people to count. Draw your own trading card (pick a color and an ability, ink the art), battle the folks you meet, and send your card to a friend as a pack to tear open.
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Chore Chart
LaunchedA chore chart for the fridge. Write the chores straight onto the page: a tick box for every day, every week or once a month, sized to fill one sheet. Prints a month or a whole year.
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Klay
LaunchedA lump of clay to push and pull into anything. Grab a nose and stretch it out, dig, smooth and paint. Two kinds of clay: mesh for fine tweaks, and blob, which can join itself and be dug right through. Then print it, flat-based or hollow.
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Tak Table
LaunchedTak, the board game by James Ernest and Patrick Rothfuss, is a race to build a road across the board out of stacking stones. Play it on one phone between two people, or against a bot. Every size from 3×3 to 8×8.
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Backfill
LaunchedA diary that runs backwards. Fill in what you remember, as loosely as you remember it: summer of ’95 or ’96, give or take a year. On your device only.
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Field Guide
LaunchedHow I build apps with Claude, for people who don’t code: what an LLM is, what’s realistic to build, the services, and the process from idea to shipped.
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Inkpond
LaunchedA cozy fishing game drawn in pen-plotter lines (the look of a machine drawing with a real pen). Cast, watch the quill float, and hook the bite in time. Every fish is a one-off drawing, taped into your logbook.
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Kiln
LaunchedA quiet pottery wheel, with the hum and hiss of the clay. Throw a pot with one finger, carve and decorate it, glaze and fire it, then download it to 3D print.
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Starlock
LaunchedA space-battle dice game for 2 to 6 captains, each on their own phone, or you against bots. The dice are public, the commands are secret, and everyone fires at once.
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Sock Puppet
LaunchedA box of puppets (animated v-tuber avatars) who’ll say anything. Type it, drop in a file, or record yourself, and they’ll lip-sync.
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Chant
LaunchedAn affirmation counter in a raked sand garden, where each affirmation is a stone. Say it a hundred times until it’s true.
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Jellybrawl
LaunchedA party game for the living room. The TV is the shared screen, everyone’s phone is a controller, and your selfie becomes the face of a jelly blob. 39 minigames so far (it’s still a prototype).
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Cadence
LaunchedA calisthenics and mobility tracker that doesn’t care which day you do what, only that the week adds up to the goals you set. Guided sessions, timers, every set logged. On your device only.
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Ledger
LaunchedA locked notebook about the people you know, with a map of how they’re connected. Encrypted, works offline, and nothing leaves your device.
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Ephemera
Launched8,038 films made to inform, sell and instruct, from the Prelinger Archives on the Internet Archive. They play right here.
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Public Screening
Launched1,186 public domain films (old movies nobody owns the rights to anymore). Hundreds of them play right here.
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Container Compound
LaunchedLay out a tiny-home compound of shipping containers on one Virginia acre.
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Breathe
LaunchedA circle that breathes with you. Box breathing, 4-7-8, the physiological sigh (two breaths in, one long one out) and a few more.
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WordGirl
LaunchedSeven word games with a fresh puzzle every day. Polygram, for one, has you spell your way from a triangle to a decagon. Installable, and works offline.
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Wayfind
LaunchedLearn where places are by what’s around them: their neighbors, waterways and landmarks. The ones you miss keep coming back until you know them.
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Die Loaded
LaunchedA weird-west dice game about making luck less fair. Load the bones, outdraw the damned, and hunt the Dealer himself. (It’s a roguelike: lose and the run starts over.)
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Volatrick
LaunchedA trick-taking card game, like Spades or Hearts, except the cards are commodities (or stocks, coins, elements) and their ranks move with a simulated market.
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PlotCraft
LaunchedPlan your yard on a satellite photo of your actual address: trees, fences, patios and pools, all at real scale. No signup, and it all stays in your browser.
