i like to make stuff
head of product & design at filament. past lives at instagram, spotify, and foursquare. outside of work i record and edit hockey highlight videos, illustrate way too many birds, and really enjoy getting lost in learning new things.
Things I've built lately
While I was learning Procreate, this king of hearts was one of my first projects. Friends and family encouraged me to keep going and draw the rest of the face cards. From there my wife was like, let's get these printed.
What started as an excuse to draw more birds turned into figuring out printing, packaging, and how Etsy works. Now the cards are a hit at the holidays and have even been sold in a store in my neighborhood.
Etsy shop
This was my first project built with Claude Code. I wanted to learn the tools, so I took the bird playing cards I'd already illustrated and set out to make a game over a weekend. The first version was straightforward blackjack, but it turns out blackjack with no money on the line is kind of boring.
So I brainstormed with Claude, inspired by Balatro, about how to layer another game on top. What we landed on: the face cards are birds, and they land on a 3x3 bingo board as you play. Don't bust, and you capture them. Complete a line of three, and you win the run. Joker wild cards, escalating bets, and just enough pressure to make you do something stupid on hand twelve.
Play it
I kept wondering what was actually happening on my block. A construction fence that appeared overnight, a restaurant that closed, a film crew blocking the sidewalk. The info exists in the city's open data, but it's scattered across a dozen agency websites.
So I built a daily neighborhood feed that pulls from nine NYC data sources and ten local news feeds, then uses Claude to rewrite bureaucratic city data into readable headlines. It stores everything in Google Sheets, which sounds unhinged but is honestly perfect for a one-person app. Built entirely with Claude Code.
Check it out
