Projects
Learn about the side projects I have built and launched.
April 3, 2025
Building a Laravel Cloud Pricing Calculator with Livewire
I recently built a pricing calculator for Laravel Cloud to help developers better understand and estimate their potential hosting costs. This project was born from personal experience - I got early...
ReadFebruary 24, 2025
Building a Website Spell Checker with Laravel and GPT-4
I recently launched Site Spell Checker, a tool that helps website owners find and fix spelling errors before their visitors do. In this post, I'll share how I built it using Laravel, GPT-4, and...
ReadFebruary 3, 2025
Building a Modern Site Search Engine with Laravel, Elasticsearch, and AI
When I set out to build SiteSearch, I wanted to create more than just another search tool. The goal was to build a powerful, scalable search solution that could handle multiple websites while...
ReadJanuary 28, 2025
Building a JSON to JSONL Converter
While building data processing pipelines at work, I kept running into a simple but annoying problem - converting JSON files to JSONL format. Sure, I could write a quick script each time, but why do...
ReadNovember 25, 2024
Building PMPrompt - AI-Powered Product Management Tools
I recently launched PMPrompt, a curated collection of AI prompts for product managers and AI tools for PMs. The goal is simple - help PMs save time and be more effective by leveraging AI in their...
ReadOctober 27, 2024
Building SurveySnaps: Location-Based QR Code Surveys
I recently launched SurveySnaps, a platform that makes collecting location-based feedback dead simple using QR codes. The goal is straightforward - help businesses gather real-time feedback from...
ReadOctober 7, 2024
Building JSONLTools with Laravel and Livewire
Working with JSON Lines (JSONL) data shouldn't be a headache. That's why I built JSONL Tools, a free web app that makes handling JSONL data straightforward and painless. Whether you need to convert...
ReadNovember 8, 2022
Building an app for virtual phone numbers
A couple years ago we set out to build a service to send an online fax half jokingly as a way to launch a micro SaaS and play with the Stripe API and the Twilio API. It has since seen a number of...
ReadFebruary 10, 2021
Building An Online Fax Service
A goal I had in 2020 was to build and launch a micro SaaS product. What is a micro SaaS? Well, it's essentially a software as a service product but smaller in scope. A micro SaaS product is often...
ReadJanuary 23, 2019
Weekly Agtech Email Newsletter
Today I launched a new project for 2019 - an Agtech focused email newsletter. The goal is to give the audience the best information over the last week. I read a lot, rip out all the PR, add some...
ReadJanuary 19, 2019
How I Migrated WordPress to a Static Website
My first project of 2019 was to migrate this 10+ year old WordPress website to a static website. For various reasons, the stack I chose is as follows... Static Website Generator: Jigsaw CSS...
ReadDecember 15, 2016
Building a Referral System with Laravel
I recently launched a small product for Amazon Affiliates built with Laravel. At the heart of the application is a referral system. Users get bonus credits when they refer another user while getting...
ReadOctober 24, 2016
That Time I Tricked Google With Its Own Data
Once upon a time SEO was easy... Exact match keyword domain? Boom. Pages for every keyword? Done. Ridiculous internal link building? Easy. Paid link building? Cheap. Link Pyramids? Get me more shared...
ReadJune 28, 2016
Building Public Slack Communities - Slackvite Launch
I had the urge to build and ship something since I gave Hey Kramer to the world. Something ... useful. Since I was already elbows deep in the Slack API, I decided to build a thing that lets you...
ReadMarch 24, 2016
Building A Slack Bot With Node.js And WordPress REST API
Some of my first experiments in the world of building a slack bot was to develop a basic Slash command using the WordPress REST API as a backend. If you or your team are the only users that intend...
ReadMarch 11, 2016
Slack Slash Command With WordPress REST API Backend
I've spent the last several weeks building Slack bots and other custom integrations. One of the simplest types of Slack integration to build is the Slash Command - which can be a way for a...
ReadApril 22, 2015
Style Disqus Comments in Twenty Fifteen Theme
I've recently moved several of my content based WordPress sites over to the Twenty Fifteen theme. It's just so clean and neat ... and focuses on content rather than features. Paired with Jetpack you...
ReadApril 21, 2015
Zendesk Helpdesk Widget in WordPress Admin
When managing dozens of WordPress sites for dozens of different users, streamlining the support process using an excellent help desk system quickly becomes a priority. If you are not familiar with...
ReadApril 15, 2015
Add Terms and Conditions to Restrict Content Pro
TL;DR - I wrote a WordPress plugin to add Terms and Conditions to the registration form when using the Restrict Content Pro plugin . I just recently built a WordPress membership site using the...
ReadFebruary 13, 2013
WordPress Bootstrap Theme
When time permits I've been working on another WordPress starter theme based on Bootstrap, the super awesome CSS and JS framework originally released by Twitter. I use it on everything so it was...
ReadAugust 8, 2011
LaunchChimp - Weekend Project
I've designed a ton of landing pages over the last couple years … From landing page templates for WordPress sites to simple launch pages. Almost all of them have been integrated with MailChimp for...
ReadFebruary 20, 2011
Light Bulb To Launch In A Weekend
Those of you that work with me know I'm obsessed with internet business models. I love the scalability, the science of a conversion, and meticulously tracking funnel metrics. That being said I'm...
ReadJanuary 26, 2011
hashDSM - Des Moines In Real Time
A couple nights ago we launched one of our fun side projects we dubbed hashDSM (or #dsm). Naturally, we built the site on WordPress but the concept is to monitor commonly used Twitter hashtags in Des...
ReadCurrent Projects
I'm always tinkering with new ideas and building interesting things. From AI-powered tools to micro-SaaS products, these are the projects currently keeping me up at night. Each one solves a specific problem I've encountered or explores an emerging technology I'm excited about.
✍️ Site Spell Checker
It's like grammarly for websites. I built an AI-powered proofreader that crawls websites and checks for spelling, grammar, and style issues and offers helpful suggestsions for improvement.
🤖 PMPrompt
AI for product managers. The goal is simple - help PMs save time and be more effective by leveraging AI in their daily workflow. Read more about this project in my blog post about building PMPrompt or try the AI-Powered PRD Generator. Try the new AI-powered PRD Reviewer.
📊 SurveySnaps
I recently launched SurveySnaps, a platform that makes collecting location-based feedback dead simple using QR codes. The goal is straightforward - help businesses gather real-time feedback from specific locations without the complexity of traditional survey tools. Read more about this project in my blog post about building SurveySnaps.
🏗️ JSONL Tools
I am working on a set of tools to help me work with JSONL. JSONL is a simple format for working with JSON data. I am working on a set of tools to help me work with JSONL data. I will use these tools to help me work with my own data as well as help me build my own APIs. One of the tools I am developing is a JSONL Validator to ensure the integrity and structure of JSONL data. Read more about this project in my blog post about building JSONL Tools.
🤖 Make Storytime
Personalized children's stories generated by AI. This is an app I am building with my kids.
📠 Fax Online
Yea, I know. But there is a long tail for everything and believe it or not there was an underserved market for people that need to send a fax online. Some people (like me!) just need to send a one time fax.
Read more about this micro Saas project in a blog post about building an online fax service.
🥑 Free URL Indexer
Free URL Indexer is a free tool to help you index your backlinks and get them into Google faster. It's a simple tool that I built to help me with my own SEO efforts and I decided to share it with the world. It's a free tool and I don't even ask for your email address. Just paste in your URL and click the button.
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