I've been building a productivity tool for content writing teams called Vewrite (https://vewrite.com/).

The problem that I'm trying to solve is that when you are writing a lot of content as a team you often lose track of the state of things because it is passed through email or google docs (or whatever). People tend to manually manage these types of projects with spreadsheets or trello or whatever, but that means that you are manually updating the status.

Vewrite has an integrated editor and a workflow manager, meaning that as you progress through the workflow while doing the actual work, your project management status is constantly kept up to date, too.

I'm working on https://photoboost.app, a tool that turns a handful of selfies into professional AI-generated headshots. Think studio-quality photos without the studio — powered by LoRA fine-tuning and smart prompting.

The goal: minimal input, fast turnaround, and results good enough to use on LinkedIn or resumes. Currently experimenting with ways to reduce training time and improve accuracy with as little as 5-8 images. Also exploring automatic gender/style detection to optimize prompts while keeping everything privacy-friendly.

Would love feedback — what would you expect from a tool like this? What features or improvements would make it a no-brainer to use?

I am working on a versatile and powerful platform for ingesting, transforming, and searching through structured, unstructured, and semi-structured data. It allows for interactive searches, dashboards, alerts, and more.

We are in open Alpha at the moment, but plan on offering affordable plans while keeping the source code available. While in open Alpha and during the upcoming Beta, it is free to use for any purpose.

We will be selling Fair-Source license, meaning that the source code will be released under MIT 2 years after release.

Check it out here: https://github.com/DelveCorp/flashlight/

Feel free to ask any questions here or open an issue in the repo.

I'm still working on my newsletter: https://ciamweekly.substack.com/ , all about customer identity and access management (CIAM).

Recently added a free tier, so working on making sure both the free subscribers and the paid ones get value out of it. I've asked people to pay for my time as a consultant and books I've written in the past, but it is pretty scary to ask folks to pay for my knowledge via a newsletter.

Finding the balance between technical dives, standards reviews, interviews, and CIAM use cases while doing this as a side hustle is an interesting balance as well. And, the weekly cadence can be brutal. But it does keep me on my toes.

working on TRMNL[1], a hardware startup with a web app companion (Ruby / Rails 8).

this weekend specifically, setting up an in-house assembly area. decided to renovate my barn and be our own fulfillment center.

[1]: https://trmnl.ink

Working on treetags[0] an effort to use tree-sitter to get basic code navigation support for multiple languages on vim/nvim.

[0] https://github.com/jha-naman/treetags

CTHULOOT, a fun arcade coop game that will soon be released on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2283410/CTHULOOT/

- A typescript SDK for creating local-first applications to browse the Fediverse (https://codeberg.org/mushroomlabs/activitypub-client). I want to be able to use this SDK to work on a fork of Elk (Mastodon client) and Voyager (Lemmy Client) and swap the API-based libraries they use.

- Adding support to WhatsApp/Discord/Signal bridges to Communick's Matrix server. For some reason, last week I got a handful of handful of customers saying that they would be willing to pay more than the $29/year of the standard plan if they could get those bridges on Communick's Matrix server

Hacking on new online music apps for http://dopeloop.ai and also fixing bugs in my online daily roguelike at http://rogule.com.

I made this spectrum analyzer/music visualizer recently. It's meant to be easy to use by just going to the URL and looks great on a 4K screen, jameskdouglas.github.io/frequenSee/

For some clients, electronics for a low impedance guitar pickup (pick up all the signal then process it later instead of building in filtering to the pickup).

And an automated design app that turns a 3D model from Fusion into something that's easy to change the parameters on. That way people can easily just type stuff in and move on to manufacturing. This started for staircases - for companies that make like 20 sets of wood staircases on site every day they want to turn that 1hr of drawing into 60s of data input.