The App Lab

Me + AI = apps that ship.

I bring 30 years of design and web know-how; the AI brings tireless typing. Together we build real, deployed apps, mostly to scratch my own itches.

● LIVE01

Ideal Weather

Design your dream year of weather, month by month, then find the real places on Earth that already live it. Forecast: 100% chance of wanderlust.

✺ 452 places worldwide, real 2014–2023 climate averages

✺ Filter by rain, travel risk, language, cost of living and coastline

✺ Live map plus a printable guide for every destination

Next.js · React · Mapbox · Open-Meteo

Find your climate ↗

HOW IT WORKS

1Get your home town's climate as a baseline

2Drag temperature bands onto 12 months

3Set region, tolerance and filters

4See your matches, ranked on a map

🔒 PRIVATE · INVITE ONLY02

Budget Builder

A personal finance app for me and the people I invite. Every dollar figure is encrypted in your browser, so nobody, not even me as the admin, can read anyone else's numbers. Cents and sensibility.

✺ Import bank statements (CSV or PDF), no bank linking

✺ Budget scenarios and a semi-monthly spending plan

✺ Passkeys, two-factor and a test suite to match

Next.js · Postgres · Prisma · WebAuthn

THE BIG IDEA

Two passwords. One opens the door. The other one never leaves your device.

A stolen login gets an attacker an account they can't read. Losing your encryption password means your recovery code is the only way back in, by design.