Useful tools, experiments, and ideas I polished enough to share online. Some started with a business question. Others started with “This is annoying. What if I just...”
Sift
It started as my personal YT downloader and evolved into a library, AI processing, archive, cross-media search, automated slides, creator monitoring, etc. On top of everything, it can download from almost all the most common sites.
Sift turns videos and audio into transcripts, summaries, and a searchable library. It's a desktop app (currently Windows and Linux) for media you want to come back to, analyze, search, or process with AI. I have a lot of unpublished features for businesses, content creators, and some... experimental ones :} So by no means is this a "finished product".
Explore Sift - Code and releases
Stegano
Detect hidden (zero-space) characters on any website OR create your own hidden text and post it anywhere. Yes - you can use it to add hidden messages on Instagram, LinkedIn or any other platform.
Text can contain characters that ordinary rendering makes invisible. Stegano is a Chrome browser extension that detects (or creates...) those hidden Unicode characters.
It makes the underlying text visible so you can examine what's actually there. A small tool for a surprisingly easy thing to miss.
See how it works - View the code - Install
RE:BORN 338
If you made acid on a PC in the late '90s, you remember ReBirth: two 303s, an 808 and a 909 on one screen. It stopped existing a long time ago. I wanted it back, so I built my own take that runs in the browser.
Two acid bass lines, 808 and 909 drum machines, a wave designer, a sampler with twin decks, a mixer, effects, song arrangement and per-step automation. Play it from your computer keyboard and export a WAV when you're done.
It's free and runs entirely in your browser. No install, no account. Three demo tracks are loaded in if you just want to press play and remember.
Open RE:BORN 338 - View the code
Listicler
A directory became a test of what visibility is worth.
I built an AI-assisted software directory. Then Google visibility and citations in AI answers started flooding in.
The interesting part became the gap between being mentioned and getting a useful business result. I wrote up the experiment, the numbers and the limits of what they could tell me.
Read the Listicler investigation
The stories behind the builds
The finished tool is only part of it. The decisions, dead ends and unexpected results live in the project articles.
Got a business problem that might need a tool, a test or a different approach? Work with me.