September 2026
I Wish There Was a Way To…
The phrase that's led to almost everything I've built with Claude Code, most recently a digital business card put together in a hotel lounge in ten minutes.
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Thoughts on building products, entrepreneurship, and technology.
September 2026
A Tournament Clock That Just Works
Every tournament we run needs a timer, a way to track buy-ins, and someone working out who wins what. The apps are a pain and the spreadsheets are clunky, so I built one that fits our game.
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The Poll That Needed a Database
Two poker tools that deliberately have no backend, and the third one that could not get away with it. Six people writing to the same record is a different shape of problem.
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The Link Is the Database
I was the banker at poker night, the whole game was on my phone, and I wanted to go home. Handing the table to somebody else turned out to need no backend at all.
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The Health Check That Was Lying to Me
Shelfie runs on a free Supabase project, and free Supabase projects go to sleep. The keep-alive job I wrote ran green for eight days without ever touching the database.
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Giving the Cash-Up Calculator the Rest of the Table
The original poker calculator only handled one player at a time. Rebuys, a whole table cashing out at once, and chip counts that never quite add up needed a second screen.
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When the Payment Provider Says No: Resetting Holdie as a Free Beta
A detour through a Lemon Squeezy rejection, some honest doubt about the product, and why a free beta period turned out to be the right call.
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Making a Folder of Recipe PDFs Actually Useful
How I turned a disorganised collection of saved recipes into a browsable, searchable tool with a single Claude artifact.
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Cash-Up Without the Arguments
A tiny calculator I built so poker night ends with everyone getting paid correctly, not with someone double-checking the maths on their phone.
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Building an Interactive Data Visualisation in a Single Conversation
How I went from a question about NBA draft history to a shareable, interactive visualisation without writing a line of code.
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From Side Project to Paid Product: Iterating Holdie With Claude Code
A follow-up on what changed after the first article: payments, email, imports, observability, and what the development process actually looks like day to day.
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How I Built Two Apps Without a Development Team
A plain-English explanation of how Holdie and Shelfie are built, what services power them, and what it would take to grow them further.
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