Personal Builds

Side Projects

The stuff I build for myself. Some make money. Some are experiments. Some exist purely because I wanted to see if I could.

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Main

The side projects I’m actually putting consistent reps into. If you’re looking for “what he’s really building,” start here.

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Workflowsy

My implementation services firm for business AI, data foundations, and workflow automation.

AI Implementation Automation Data
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Getting Automated

My educational brand for business-forward AI and automation videos, guides, and practical resources.

AI Education Automation YouTube
Active MRR: Pre-revenue

BlindSpot Apps

Shopify + e-commerce apps. First up: Monitor (catch outages and stop burning ad spend into a broken checkout).

Shopify E-commerce SaaS AWS
Active MRR: $0 (by design)

Do Chicago Right

A curated guide to Chicago from someone who actually lives here. No sponsored content, no affiliate deals—just honest recommendations.

Chicago Local Guide

Hacking around

The true side quests: experimental, slightly chaotic, and not optimized for monetization. Some are “real” projects. Some are just me solving a specific problem and moving on.

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TV Ops Dashboard

A TV-friendly ops dashboard that scrolls through the stuff I care about (pipelines, jobs, failures). Couldn’t find one I liked, so I built it.

Ops Dashboard Monitoring React AWS
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Home Assistant

Home automation that actually feels helpful: shades, Sonos, scenes, and little quality-of-life fixes that add up.

Home Assistant Automation Smart Home Zigbee
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Guest Welcome Display

A Marriott-style welcome screen in the guest bedroom — just a fun touch that makes staying here feel like an experience.

JavaScript AWS Smart Home Kiosk
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Sneed Supper Club

A dinner party invite microsite—because I love food, love to cook, and wanted an excuse to bring people together.

React AWS Food DynamoDB
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Therapist Finder

Scraped therapist directories and used an LLM to rank “best fit” matches. Because filtering 200 profiles manually is brutal.

Python Scraping LLM Data

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HAS The Geek

My first company. Computer repair and IT services, started at 14. Grew to 500+ clients before I finished high school.

Business IT Services

Graveyard

Projects I stopped working on. Sometimes the idea was bad. Sometimes the timing was bad. Sometimes I got distracted by something shiny.

R.I.P.

Personal Dashboard

A “life metrics” dashboard idea (health + finances + personal stats). Turns out I like building dashboards more than I like seeing my own numbers all day.

Dashboard Personal Data Idea

"Gone but not forgotten"

R.I.P.

Data Extraction Website

Structured data extraction for well-known forms (government, tariffs, shipping, standardized docs). High accuracy because the forms are known — the “maybe this comes back” graveyard resident.

Document AI OCR Forms Data Extraction

"Gone but not forgotten"

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