Software Projects
Functor
I solo-built a startup idea from January 2025 to April 2025. The idea was to hook up AI to a bunch of powerful functions, some user/AI-made. When I started (part-time in September '24), I had to build my own web search tool from scratch. Now there are thousands, and thousands of competitor products. I still find mine useful.
2024 - current? Tech:
Functor creating and printing a birthday card.
Total Annihilation Game Mod (TABA)
Largest independent project to date, despite being last updated in 2012. I spent 10-20 hours/week over the course of six years in high school and early undergrad building:
- Unit upgrades into the Total Annihilation game engine.
- The ability to build units without turrets, then match them with a turret. This effectively expanded the possible unit combinations quadratically, by decoupling unit and weapon.
2006 - 2012. Tech:
- Unit scripts
- 3D modeling (Wings 3D, unit I modeled)
- Texturing (3DO Builder, another custom TABA unit)
- Eventually a Java API
Upgrades in TABA. Re: graphics—the game runs on Windows 95.
Drink Count
I made a small iPhone / Apple Watch app to track alcoholic drinks. I found none of the other apps on the market to be easy enough to use, especially when drinking, so I made my own.
2023 - current? (It needs some love 😊). Tech:
Drink Count on Apple Watch.
ChatGPDJ
Myself and Max Bennedich built a site that plays Spotify songs based on a text prompt. Unfortunately, working with Spotify has been difficult—they take months to respond to requests and their rules are stringent enough that it seems unlikely this project will ever get approved in current form. It does work if I enable your email on my backend—contact me if curious.
2024 - current? Tech:
ChatGPDJ with an approved email.
The site.