Product experiments and exploratory prototypes.
This section contains short, self-directed experiments where I test product hypotheses, explore technical feasibility, and extract learnings. These are not production case studies — they are deliberate probes used to sharpen judgment around what to build, what to ignore, and why.
Lessons From 10 of AI-Driven Idea Spikes In late 2025, I ran a personal experiment as part of my 10-week goals: build a different idea every week. I started calling these Idea Spikes—a fixed amount of time allocated to create...
Read more →For this last and final spike of 2026, things got a little strange. I didn’t make a software product. I made a song. Even that feels generous—I didn’t compose it so much as prompt it into existence. I went to...
Read more →Quirks was a game that some friends and I dreamed up over a decade ago. It started with a simple observation: everyone has those weird little behaviors—those personality “tics” that make us who we are. Some people take endless notes....
Read more →For this week’s spike, I went in a different direction. Instead of taking a random idea and turning it into a product as quickly as possible, I decided to do something thematic for Christmas. I had a domain sitting unused...
Read more →Creating an Idea Factory from one of my ideas from long ago. Every year I run a challenge with friends in October. The goal is to create a new idea every day. After many years I had many fun idea...
Read more →Building a Condo BMS in Two Days Using AI: From Idea Spike to Full Property Management Platform On November 15, 2025, I completed my sixth idea spike: a rapid-fire exploration where I take an idea and see how quickly I...
Read more →Record RL Docking Simulator This is my fifth idea spike — a quick prototype to explore an idea all the way to a working MVP. The question I keep asking myself with these spikes is: How quickly can I bring...
Read more →Building a Bluetooth Sniffer in 24 Hours For week four of my idea sprints, I set out to build a small Android application in a single day. These “idea spikes” are my way of stress-testing what modern development tools —...
Read more →Halloween Kata: Turning Pinan Sandan into a Skeleton with TensorFlow This is the third week of my “idea spike” series — short proofs of concept to explore new technologies and test ideas. For Halloween, I wanted to do something seasonal...
Read more →Background Sometimes debating politics can feel like sparring — it’s an art that needs practice, but finding the right partner isn’t always easy. DebateSim is my attempt to create a personal debate partner powered by AI — one you can...
Read more →Background I’ve always liked keeping up with current events, but lately it’s been exhausting. The political noise, the endless outrage — it’s like the news was designed to keep my blood pressure high. I’d read about something horrific that supposedly...
Read more →Why We’re Doing This Many of us work from home, but we’ve realized that something is missing: the energy, focus, and synergy that come from sharing space with motivated people. Instead of joining a big coworking brand, we’re creating a...
Read more →Project Suncreen: Another potential bad idea to solve Climate Change So I have been thinking about what it would take to cool the Earth. Most of the ideas on this subject involved reducing Carbon. I totally agree with this and...
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