Building focused tools and apps.
After years of building software in corporate engineering environments, you see how easily good ideas get diluted by layers of consensus, shifting priorities, and roadmap compromises. I wanted to get back to what matters most: creating focused, high-quality tools and products that genuinely solve problems. AI has fundamentally changed the game for solo developers and small teams, making it possible to design, build, and ship complete software independently, without the overhead.
“Leveraging AI to build and ship high-quality software.”
The Works
Daybreak
Web AppYour calm daily briefing. A bounded news experience that respects your attention.
A news aggregator assembled from public RSS/Atom feeds with multi-country editions, story clustering, local-first reading state, and an authentic printed newspaper edition.
gh-repo-bootstrapper
Open SourceStandardised GitHub repositories with pre-configured Actions, Release Please, and Dependabot.
An interactive, zero-dependency Python tool to scaffold production-grade repositories enforcing branch protection rules and automated release contracts.
figuresmate
Web AppAustralian financial calculators with transparent assumptions and zero product upsell.
A statically exported calculation suite that provides mathematical clarity for taxes, mortgages, and investment projections alongside independent educational articles.
Approach
In large organisations, engineering quality often suffers from artificial deadlines, committee architecture, and competing stakeholder demands. Working independently lets me keep scopes tight, prioritise clean design, and build software that remains fast and reliable over the long run.
Leveraging AI for software development today is a no-brainer. It removes the traditional bottlenecks that once required entire departments, allowing an individual developer to iterate rapidly and deliver polished, production-ready software with the momentum of a full team.
Corporate growth models frequently push software towards invasive telemetry, forced sign-up funnels, and retention tricks that degrade the user experience. I build tools that simply do what they say on the tin: clean utilities with zero tracking and zero artificial friction.