#ProductLaunch

Most of my tools start the same way. A small problem that keeps showing up, and a fix that's too useful to leave as a bookmark. For a while, each tool got its own little site. It works, but it scatters. One tool here, one tool there, separate…

In the past during my free time, I used to make and play games on itch.io. It's one of the best places I know to put a game out there: no store approval, no gatekeeping. Upload, hit publish, and see what happens. But there's one thing that's always…

A few weeks after I launched Handmade Checker, I kept coming back to the same thought. I had built a tool that tells you when a listing looks like AI. But the sellers behind real shops have the opposite problem. They make beautiful things. And…

For the last few months, this blog has been my workshop. I've written about running Gemma 4 locally, building tools that keep my data on my own hardware, and experimenting with everything from family dashboards to Chrome extensions. Each post was a…

It started with a specific frustration. I was shopping on Etsy for a gift. Something handmade, something with character. After scrolling through pages of listings, I started noticing a pattern. A lot of the listings look like they were made using…