Things I’ve Built (and Am Building)

Small tools, experiments, and ongoing projects.

This is a growing collection of web applications I’ve built or that are under active development.

“The true object of all human life is play.” — G. K. Chesterton

Some are finished. Some are evolving. Many looking like ruins in the desert.

They range from practical tools to reflective experiments. They often start as a question, a frustration, or a curiosity. Some are public, some are prototypes, and some are unfinished (deliberately or not).

“This is the real secret of life — to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realise it is play.” — Alan Watts

They are best seen as art or play. No real end. But learning with each one. Thinking through doing.

Aeldkin – Caveman Game

https://www.aeldkin.com/

Trying to simulate and play 6 million years of evolution

I had an idea to build a game to understand the experience of deep time. 6 million years ago to about 6000 years ago. This is the result. It’s teaching me about game dynamics and refactoring design choices.

Build: Lovable – 20-60 mins + GitHub CoPilot – 1-2 days.

Status: Live but work in progress – not really ready yet.

Open App

Avon Game (River Simulator)

Can we “gamify” being a local river?

Thinking of ways to get people to engage with the Bristol Avon ecosystem. Ended up being a cross between SimCity and Game of Life. Processed accurate river data to build the tile map. Added towns and cities – Bristol, Keynsham, Bath, Bradford-upon-Avon, Melksham and Chippenham.

Build: Lovable – 20-60 mins + GitHub CoPilot – 1-2 days.

Status: Live but work in progress – not really ready yet.

Open App

Mnemora – Journal Comics

https://www.mnemora.art/

Can I make a comic out of my life and writing?

This is a cool project. I journal using www.750words.com. I was hearing about the abilities of the Gemini 3 Image model (“Nano Banana Pro”). So I wondered the above question. This was the answer.

Build: Google AI Studio – 20-60 mins + GitHub CoPilot – 2-4 days.

Status: Live – roughly ready?

Future work: longer form stories with character consistency – can I make a whole comic book with themes and arcs and stuff?

Open App

Twenty Three Zero – Goals and Life Tracking

https://www.twenty-three-zero.com/

Can we build something to help us live better lives?

This is an older project, started over a year ago before modern faster “vibe-coding” approaches. The idea was to have something that complemented the journalling to help me live “better”. Things like noting worries and challenges, together with wins and goals. Recently I updated with some automated review of my journal entries – to auto add the notes using LLMs from raw text. Also has a probabilistic “death” calculator.

From a tech perspective, experiments with deploying to Azure and building an app with separate front-end (React) and back-end (Python).

Build: Hand + later AI assistance.

Status: Live – needs some work and TLC.

Open App

Veggie Hero – Menu Planning

https://www.veggiehero.co.uk/

Can I build a weekly meal plan from my veg-box email and my Lidl receipt?

Trying to work out if I could do a quick build to give me something useful.

Build: Google AI Studio – 20-60 mins.

Status: Live.

Open App

Middle-Aged Man Tamagotchi

Keep a 4x-year-old West Country man functional, fulfilled, and vaguely sane

Built as a fun exercise to test going from journal entries to a game with 80s and 90s vibes.

Build: Lovable – 20-60 mins.

Status: Live.

Open App

Emotional Awareness

Using LLMs to Explore Embodied Feelings

I was reading books on getting people more connected with their body and feeling. Via phones and technology we are often distant and not aware of what we are feeling.

Build: Lovable – 20 mins.

Status: Live.

Open App

Poetry Studio

Can LLMs write poems?

I like the thought of writing poems based on random snippets of ideas. This plays with that and also explores Lovable’s abilities. It also experiments with track changes LLM revisions.

Build: Lovable – 20 mins.

Status: Live.

Open App