My {current} system for building tools
The Hub is the sixth version of my AI building process.
It grew out of building a tool that turns songs into guitar tabs. It had to be cheap to run and consistent enough to trust.
My {current} workflow
The workflow now has 25 steps (!!). Each one came from something that went wrong or felt wasteful. The last step, Lessons → rules, turns each failure into a written rule.
I wanted to build it well
I knew I’d be maintaining this, and every project after it, for a long time. But I didn’t expect to enjoy building this much.
The design system exists because I wanted to change the design from a UI instead of a text file. The control center exists because I was tired of terminal commands I kept forgetting.
I adapted ideas I liked
I tried frameworks like Superpowers first. They came with a lot of machinery and ceremony, and burned tokens doing it. I borrowed parts from ponytail, cursor, Matt Pocock and many others and adapted them.
Every step is a small, self-contained module that can be inspected on its own. When something feels off, I check one or two steps instead of auditing the whole system again.
Things I've built
0 → 1
Designed and launched multiple products for startups and a government service.
AI
I'm building TabbyTab, a tool that turns audio into playable guitar tablature.
Developer tools
Redesigned the end-to-end hosting journey, reducing time to first deployment by 62%.
Fintech
Designed an intra-bank payment system that reached 1 billion transactions in its first month and supported EU expansion.
E-commerce
Redesigned the store creation experience, increasing newly verified stores by 9%.
Customer support
Spent 10 months building an augmented support service that became a startup's main profit driver.