Design + Product + Software

It doesn't have to be complicated

Current focus: simple solutions, simple architectures, the modern monolith, cross-browser extensions, cross-platform desktop applications and in general projects that encourage competency, ownership, and personal agency.

Over the last few years, I've been particularly interested in developer enablement and design-led 0-1 solutions for web and browser extensions. How can a user (and developer) go from idea to production in a fast but sustainable way without sacrificing design and aesthetics?

Ongoing

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  picchat.ai A cross-platform desktop app that lets you generate, edit, fine-tune, curate, share and save images that inspire your creativity.
  Built with: Electron + Vite + React + TypeScript + ai

  • Electron + Vite + React + TypeScript + OpenAI API
• specialize.studio

  

  Specialize.studio Specialize Studio is a product development partner for early product teams, solo founders, designers, and agencies going from zero-to-one. Building B2B, B2C SaaS and AI products on two opinionated stacks:

  • Modern Monolith (Rails + Inertia.js + Vite / React / TS)
  • Modern Serverless (Next.js + Vercel + Supabase) and

• gabkit.com

  

  Gabkit.com GabKit is a creator and content platform starter kit built with Ruby on Rails , the framework optimized for happiness and scales with you from HELLO WORLD to IPO . Build your business on a solid foundation and own everything: your brand, your list, your profits, your future .

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  Bedframe.dev Browser Extension Development Framework — Ship prod-ready, cross-browser extensions with Vite + React. Bedframe is an open source Vite/TypeScript framework that gives you an opinionated, repeatable approach, tooling, and workflows optimized for shipping prod-ready extensions to all modern browsers. It's a "framework" as in, a way of doing things.

  • @bedframe/cli — Node.js + TypeScript
  • @bedframe/core — Node.js + TypeScript
  • create-bedframe — Node.js + TypeScript
  • Templates — Vite + React / Vue / Svelte / etc + TypeScript

• RISKit.dev
  Rails Inertia Starter Kit — It doesn't have to be complicated; just build a monolith! Combining the HELLO WORLD to IPO ethos of Ruby on Rails with the speed and versatility of Vite, RISKit is a great starting point for the modern monolith.

  • Backend — Ruby on Rails 8 + Postgres/SQLite + Solid trifecta
  • Frontend — Inertia.js + Vite + React + TypeScript + Tailwind + shadcn/ui

I'm always interested in meeting and hearing from like-minded people so if you find any of this interesting, are working in the same areas, would like to collaborate or just say hi, do reach out!