AI Experiments

Apps I've been building and designing solo with AI lately.

Balancer

Finance tracker that helps you track what you earn, spend, and save so you can see whether you are on track toward your goals.

Outcome: Helped my household save by making overspending easier to spot and showing when cash was sitting idle in the bank.

Cue

Beta

Subtitle tool that uses AI to generate, edit, style, and burn subtitles into videos.

Outcome: Lowered the cost barrier to creating professional-looking subtitles with an easy-to-use app for independent creators.

How I build with AI

I'm using Cursor, Codex, and Claude Code depending on what each does best at the time. I find that one tool tends to pull ahead for a while, then others catch up, and eventually they converge and feel mostly the same. For consistency across agents, I keep a roadmap and handoff docs inside the repo for agents to follow. I find that without these, agents revisit stuff we've already covered or go off in directions I didn't ask for. I also use skills (e.g., frontend-design and web-design-guidelines for UI work), my own custom rules, and MCPs (e.g., Playwright for testing). Besides actual coding, I treat AI as a junior design partner, using it for research, brainstorming, testing directions, and consultations.