Active projects
Chadwin
Superintelligent stock analyst
↗Inspired by my own need to become a better investor, I'm building an LLM-powered investment analyst. Most investment sites focus on a mountain of data. My approach is to generate investment memos that give a complete understanding of the company and its long-term potential.
Launched May 2025
Midjourney Art
Explorations in AI art
↗Midjourney is by far my favorite AI art tool. I have spent a lot of time exploring its possibilities, with many of my images coming via a prompt generator which helps me explore concepts and ideas that would be impossible to stumble on myself.
Launched Mar 2023
Varieties of (Self) Transcendence
An essay in fragments
↗Abraham Maslow believed he made a mistake by placing self-actualization—rather than self-transcendence—as the fullest expression of human potential within his famous hierarchy of needs. I built this site to explore the idea via a collection of fragments I accumulated while working on an essay I never finished.
Launched Sep 2018
Tecmo Geek
Ultimate guide to Tecmo Super Bowl
↗After loving the game as a kid, I discovered there remained an obsesssed fanbase for Tecmo Super Bowl on NES, with active online forums and in-person tournaments. I built this while waiting for my Swedish work visa. Of all my projects, this one gets me the most fan mail. I worked with a publisher to turn this into a book, but Tecmo refused to give us the rights.
Launched Mar 2013
Beautiful Web Type
Curated open-source web fonts
↗I built this when the Google Fonts project was still in its infancy. Most of the fonts (then and now) are not good, so I wanted to highlight the best ones and show in-use examples. This one blew up and got me an unsolicated email of appreciation from one of the most well-known type designers in the world.
Launched Jan 2012
Archived projects
QVOTR
Kindle Highlight for the web
↗This was a small side project with a friend that had an unexpectedly great reception on Product Hunt. Our app enabled users to highlight and save text on any webpage. We ran it for a while and eventually sold it for a modest exit.
Launched Nov 2014
Mnfst.io
Cryptographic proof of authorship
↗Built with a friend, this was an app that enabled users to post public messages using their PGP key as the means of identifying themselves as the author. Part of a series of experiments around distributed communication tools.
Launched Mar 2014
HackerEngine
Rails starter-kit
↗A friend and I challenged ourselves to build and launch an app in 24 hours. We built a Rails starter-kit with pre-build integrations for Bootstrap, Stripe, and KISSmetrics. We posted to Hacker News and got immediate traction and a healthy amount of sales before we shut it down a few months later.
Launched Feb 2012
Instalover
Instant blind dating app
↗I built this over a weekend with three co-workers for the 2010 Rails Rumble competition. The app enabled users to request a blind date via SMS. The service would ping other members and if someone accepted we would tell both when and where to meet. We won the award for best use of real-time communication.
Launched Oct 2010