Things I think
about building.
Notes on AI products, niche markets, open source, and the gaps worth filling.
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Open Source Is the Best Portfolio You Can Build
I've built three open source tools for the home automation community. They're not famous. They work. And they've taught me more about building for real users than anything else I've done.
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How I Built ClawCost in a Week (And Why the API Bill Scared Me Into It)
I was burning through Claude API tokens faster than I expected, with no good way to see it coming. So I built ClawCost — a real-time cost tracker for the Claude API — in about a week.
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Why I Build Software for Markets Nobody Bothers With
Big companies use price as a moat. The software designed for professional shops costs thousands. I wanted to build something anyone could pick up on day one — and KerfOS is how I'm doing it.
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From Chemical Engineering to AI Founder: A Pivot I Never Planned
I graduated with a ChE degree in 2010 into the wreckage of the financial crisis, never worked a day in the field, and somehow ended up building AI software. Here's how that happened.