Call Center Tool - Built at Ontrak
Ontrak had over 100 engagement specialists making member activation calls, and a lot of them were struggling to hit quota. There was no call structure. Every agent did their own thing. The agents who were succeeding had built their own structure from years of doing this kind of work. The agents who were struggling had nothing to follow.
I built a digital call guide that provided that foundation. Six stages, every call:
Three Portfolio Pieces in One
My recipes were all over the place. Handwritten cards, screenshots, browser bookmarks, texts to myself. Nothing existed for home cooks who have been collecting recipes for twenty years. Every app assumed you'd be entering recipes from scratch. I wasn't. I had a pile.
So I built an app that reads handwritten cards from a photo, imports from a URL, takes a voice memo, and lets you talk to an AI to figure out what's for dinner from what you have on hand.
Tool - Live
Writing prompts for AI image and video generation is a skill in itself -- one I was actively studying through a course when I built this. The difference between a generic result and a professional one comes down to knowing the vocabulary: shot type, lighting, mood, realism triggers. I built a tool that turns plain English into professional AI prompts so you don't have to memorize the terminology.
Four modes: Build Prompt, Reverse Engineer an existing image, Grid Builder for batch prompts, and a Reference library.
App - Built for a Group
After a group of friends were laid off last summer, I built them a private job search dashboard. A skill I built scrapes the internet for positions that match their backgrounds and populates the dashboard automatically - so instead of scrolling job boards, they just show up and react to what's already there.
Every lead gets an AI fit score. Mark one interesting and tell JJ why - it learns their preferences and sharpens future results. When they're ready to apply, one click tailors a resume and cover letter to that specific job.
Dashboard - Personal Command Center
I needed eyes and ears across everything, so nothing could break silently.
Life at a Glance is a living dashboard that surfaces the state of everything I have running: open backlog items, hook health, system map drift, database contents, journal themes. It morphs constantly as my setup grows. It's not a finished product, it's the instrument panel I check every morning so I know what's actually happening across all of it.
App - Live Demo Available
Friday night, can't remember which series I was in the middle of or which platform it was on. My sisters are recommending things in the family group chat and I have nowhere to put them. So I built one app that tracks everything across every platform.
Platform badges show where each title lives. Mark something started and it moves to Currently Watching. A built-in assistant lets you ask what to watch or add titles just by talking to it.
Content System - Engineered in Public
My goal was to streamline the blog writing process and turn it into a system. That meant teaching Claude to write in my voice instead of sounding like AI, breaking the habits AI loves to fall into. Hooks enforce voice rules, Gemini handles character-consistent images, audio narration regenerates when paragraphs change, and Convex sits behind it all so there is no CMS to wrangle.
The posts are a running record of what I figured out while building. If you are working with Claude Code, I hope something in here helps you on your journey too.