Most of what I build at work stays private. So over the years I've built things on my own time. A few shipped, a couple sold, and some are long gone. They're collected here, newest first.
Car podcasts throw around models, brands, and jargon that lose anyone new to the hobby. Car Curious transcribes each episode and explains the cars and terms as they come up, across a web app, an iOS player, and written recaps.
Car Curious automotive podcast app
Some vehicles sell before they ever surface in a search. Lot Watch tracks dealer inventory in real time and flags when hard-to-find models like the GX 550 or Land Cruiser land on a lot, along with price and listing changes.
Lot Watch real-time dealer inventory tracker
A daily email that rounds up the car news worth knowing, from new-car loan trends to the latest EV launches. The pitch: read it and be the most informed car person in the room.
Suspension.news daily car news email
The open spec behind Car Curious. Each annotation marks a moment in spoken audio: the entity or topic, the second it appears, and the context to make sense of it. That lets players, search, and show notes point at a specific point in an episode.
Podcast Annotation Format specification for timestamped audio
Built this API-driven data pipeline and analysis system for analyzing trends in software development technologies through Hacker News submissions.
Scout the right people and communities, inform your interests. Use it to easily monitor Twitter hashtags, search for Twitter Lists. Co-developed this tool to continue to refine Twitter automation and discovery capabilities.
Electoral provided tools to quickly build powerful Twitter Lists to stay up to date on your interests and find the right people to listen to.
Twitter List Builder helps you quickly build Twitter lists from any build list of people tweeting a hashtag to follow them after the event.
Co-developer of this responsive web app that lets people send $5 for a beer with a single Tweet, by linking Twitter and PayPal together through Chirpify.
A mobile web app I co-developed for Hawaiian Airlines. It leaned heavily on geolocation, mapping, geocoding, and distance calculations, pulling in Foursquare, Twitter, and Facebook data and keeping it in sync. Built on Rails, PostgreSQL, and jQuery Mobile.
Energizing early stage startups.
Not everybody has thousands of followers, so LazyTweet was created to give everybody a chance to get their burning questions answered.
This was one of the first applications to utilize Twitter's OAuth integration.
Local Signal was a city-based feed aggregator on the LAMP stack: one place to follow a town's news, events, and social media, from blog posts and bookmarks to photos and video. The feed engine parsed RSS at its core but also handled the custom formats various APIs returned, with dynamic content display built on the YUI library.
I developed this Google Maps mashup to highlight the explosion of new internet applications generally considered to be Web 2.0. This application was extremely popular, making the Digg front page and meriting mention by dozens of blogs. Technologies included JavaScript, XML, .NET, AJAX, the Google Maps API, and the Yahoo Geocoding API.
Web 2.0 Innovation Map coverage on O'Reilly Radar
Co-founder and lead developer for this innovative social personal finance website launched in July 2005. NetworthIQ was built on ASP.NET/MySQL.
NetworthIQ grew to over 19,000 registered users and has been included in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Washington Post, Business Week, Dallas Morning News, Boston Globe, and was in many "Top Web 2.0" lists.