Category: Side Project
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Introducing Golf Swing Camera App
I built a new iPhone app called Golf Swing Camera. The idea is simple. Set up your phone, start a session, and swing. The app watches for motion, records the swing in slow motion, trims the clip around the swing, and...
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Ranking a What Is My IP Tool
I recently added a small tool to T.LY: What Is My IP Address . It does the obvious thing first. It shows your public IP address. Then it gives you the extra details people usually want after that: location, ISP,...
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Free Live Speech Translator for Chrome
If you need to show translated speech on a screen during a meeting, presentation, church service, or event, I built a tool for that: Live Speech Translator . It is free, runs in Google Chrome, and is built to keep...
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Founders, Open Your App
I heard a story in this interview recently that stuck with me. Someone asked a room full of bank executives when the last time they had actually used their own bank's consumer app was. Nobody raised their hand. > "I...
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Chrome Extensions Turn Shady
One of the best things about Chrome extensions is also one of the worst things about them: they sit directly inside your browser. That makes them incredibly useful, but it also means the extension can watch pages,...
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QR Code Extension
Every day, thousands of people are searching for a simple way to turn a URL into a QR code. They do not need a complex solution, just a quick and easy tool. That is the idea behind QR Code Generator for Chrome . If...
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Marketing Is the Hard Part
It has never been easier to build software. With AI, a solo founder can design a landing page, scaffold a SaaS app, wire up billing, add analytics, and ship a usable product in days instead of months. That is a huge...
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How to Research Any Topic
When I want to learn a new topic quickly, I usually do not start with books or long courses. I start with YouTube. YouTube is one of the fastest ways to get up to speed on almost anything. The problem is that videos...
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How I Migrated This Blog from WordPress to Astro
For over 10 years, this blog has run on WordPress . It worked well for years, but recently I needed to migrate it to a new server, and it felt like too much for what is mostly a static site. This site does not need a...
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I Built a Tool to Help You Find Short Domains
If you’ve ever tried to find a short domain for your brand, you already know how this goes. You come up with a good, catchy domain name. You head to a registrar. It’s taken or crazy expensive. So you try another...