building software in public
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Nathan — an AI-first software developer in LA, shipping in public.
all in on AI and agentic coding, building everything I can.
follow the journey, watch the process, ship with me.
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Currently building
What I'm working on right now
Appturnity
activeSoftware consulting & app studio
Right now
Tightening the lead-to-scope flow so a rough idea turns into a clear build plan fast.
The goal
A consulting front door that scopes, prices, and kicks off real software for clients.
recent activity
Jun 18
Live at appturnity.com — scoping new client builds.
Jun 12
Refined the on-site services and pricing breakdown.
Featured
Recent builds
Developer Portfolio Ranker
Portfolio Rank
Ranks 1,700+ developer portfolios by what's actually good — head-to-head voting + AI scoring, not alphabetical. Build lists, save the ones you love, and like the best.
- •Responsive UI with head-to-head voting and a live leaderboard
- •Type-safe throughout
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AI Quiz Generation
Quizmatic
AI-powered quiz generator built on OpenAI. Users get personalized quizzes on any topic with adaptive difficulty. Postgres-backed, Vercel-deployed.
- •A responsive design with modern UI components
- •Leveraging Next.js for SSR, SSG, and efficient routing
- •Enhancing reliability with type safety
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The bench
The Lab
Everything I'm building, in one place — web apps and experiments, Chrome extensions, dev tools, and free resources.
Apps & experiments
Web apps & experiments
Shipped apps, ongoing projects, and half-built experiments — the web side of the bench.
Browser tools
Chrome extensions
Small, local-first tools I built and actually use. All open source — if one's useful, a star helps a ton.
Piper TTS
Fully local read-aloud for Chrome
Highlight text, right-click, hear it read aloud by a Piper model running fully on your machine. No cloud, no keys.
Piper TTS
Fully local read-aloud for Chrome
Highlight text, right-click, hear it read aloud by a Piper model running fully on your machine. No cloud, no keys.
TubeVault
Local-first YouTube archiver
Archive YouTube videos, playlists, and channels locally with a yt-dlp helper. Your library, on your disk.
TL;DW
One-keystroke YouTube → Gemini
On any YouTube video, hit Alt+G — it opens Gemini with a saved prompt and the video, and submits. Too Long; Didn't Watch.
Chrome Extension Launch Kit
The MV3 starter all three of these are built on — clone it and ship your own.
Dev tools
Tools
Desktop apps, bots, and dev utilities I made because I wanted them to exist.
Free dev resources
Resources
Free, browser-based developer directories I built — find self-hosted apps, free dev tiers, and public APIs without the rabbit hole. No account, nothing uploaded.
The loadout
The AI kit I build with
The agents and tools doing the heavy lifting right now — hover a tile for what I use it for.
SQLite at the edge, fully type-safe, cheap to run. What I reach for first.
Work with me
Two ways to put me to work
This is where I build in public. If you like what you see, here's where it goes next — hire me, or have me build the thing.
Hiring
Need a developer?
Looking for someone to build, ship, and own real features? My portfolio is the resume — case studies, the stack, and the proof I can do the job.
- Full-stack + AI-assisted
- Case studies & real work
- Available for roles
Project work
Need a website or business system?
Have an idea, a business to put online, or an internal tool that should already exist? That's Appturnity — I take it from a conversation to something live you can use.
- Websites & web apps
- Custom business systems
- From idea to shipped