Chad
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© 2026

I'm building Chadwin, a superintelligent stock analyst.

I'm an avid reader, with wide-ranging interests in technology, finance, philosophy, history, and science.

I grew up in a small town in central Massachusetts where I fell in love with building things on the internet. Over my career, I've worked as a designer, developer, product manager, executive and founder. I live in Stockholm, Sweden.

Selected Side Projects

Mar2026

Are.na Agent

Codex-based agent for Are.na

An agent for creating and editing content within your owned channels and much more.

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Jul2025

Feedforward

AI blog aggregator

After spending a lot of time reading the personal blogs of AI researchers, I built a small tool to aggregate the latest posts from those that publish an RSS feed.

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Sep2018

Varieties of (Self) Transcendence

An essay in fragments

An exploration of self-transcendence through a collection of fragments I accumulated while working on an unfinished essay.

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Nov2014

QVOTR

Kindle Highlight for the web

Site that enabled users to highlight and save text on any webpage. Built with a friend. After a great reception on Product Hunt, we ran it for a while before selling for a modest exit.

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Mar2014

Mnfst.io

Cryptographic proof of authorship

Site that enabled users to post public messages signed with their PGP key. Built with a friend. Part of a series of experiments around distributed communication tools.

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Mar2013

Tecmo Geek

Ultimate guide to Tecmo Super Bowl

After loving the game as a kid, I discovered there is still an obsesssed fanbase for the original Tecmo Super Bowl. I worked with a publisher to turn it into a book, but Tecmo killed the project. Of all my projects, this one gets me the most fan mail.

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Feb2012

HackerEngine

An attempt to launch an app in 24 hours

A friend and I challenged ourselves to build and launch an app in 24 hours. We started on Sunday morning, posted to Hacker News that night and made our first sale before the day was done.

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Jan2012

Beautiful Web Type

Curated open-source web fonts

Launched when the Google Fonts project was still in its infancy, this was my first successful side project, getting me an email of appreciation from one of the most well-known type designers in the world.

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Oct2010

Instalover

Instant blind dating via SMS

Built over a weekend with three co-workers for the 2010 Rails Rumble competition. The app enabled users to request a blind date via SMS. We won the award for best use of real-time communication.

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