So I'm building an app a week and focusing on solving niche problems I've experienced in my own life to start

I think it's never been easier to build prototypes, but because of all of the slop, building community and finding users around them are harder than ever before

This latter part I think is going to be the hardest part of going out on my own

But going to try

Things I'm working on right now:

https://a2ciple.pt/ - testing prep for a language exam required for residency & citizenship in Portugal

https://basehub.org/ - a docs site for agents to get the latest context on Base, an Ethereum L2

https://playgokab.com/ - a vocab game to learn words in diff languages

https://mru.space/ - a protocol to run software that gracefully degrades across failing hardware

https://shiponeshot.com/ - a framework to help me ship prototypes more quickly

Anyhow, cheers :)

As it currently looks I need to design my own PCB with a modern LTE module and make it connect to all the peripherals. Thought it would be a nice project to get into electronics, soldering etc. Also really enjoying the constraints of an 84x48 LCD screen and how to implement "modern" technology like GPS navigation or design the UI for a music player.

It tracks explicit mentions of ~ 181 languages, technologies, vendors, etc as seen in job postings. The motivation was that GitHub activity and developer surveys describe what people use or enjoy, but not necessarily what employers are requesting.

https://github.com/eliasson/garanti/

Just this friday I wrote an article that took a look under the hood.

https://markuseliasson.se/article/under-the-hood-of-a-gleam-...

Basically, I'm collecting public data (official registries, job boards, company websites, linkedin etc) to surface sales opportunity signals, like leadership change, new branch/market entry, funding rounds, etc.

Just drop in your HAR file and get immediate insights into the SAML related events.

It's an attempt to get round the fact that various health apps and vendors pick and choose what they share or show from other sources.

It's hosted on a VPS, connected over Tailscale, and has a realtime TTS server (Piper).

The Pebble has built in transcription, so my app takes the transcript, hits the server endpoint with three possible paths:

1. Deterministic response

The server looks for certain triggers from the transcript like "Add task," "Complete task," "Set a timer," etc that will run a simple function on server and write / retrieve to a database, no LLM call needed. It then responds with the TTS output and the watch speaks. This path is nearly instant.

2. Fast response

If no trigger is found, then it hits a gpt5.6 Luna endpoint, which decides if it can answer the query itself, or if it needs to defer to the big brother model. If it can handle a query itself, it usually responds to simple questions in less than 8 seconds. It's also good about properly deferring, very close to 100% after a few weeks.

3. Deferred response

The VPS hosts a Hermes installation, and for more complicated tasks or for ongoing projects the Luna router sends it to the Hermes agent. This is typically quite slow, as you'd expect, but remarkably capable. I built the voice app to cache a few lines like "this will take some time" which will automatically trigger if the router indicates it's deferring, and then will respond with the full response from Hermes once it's finished (sometimes minutes later).

Pebble has a quiet mode, and my app will only display the text response if it's on, otherwise all responses are run through the TTS. Piper is so fast that this adds almost no time to the response.

In only a few weeks this has become the primary way I set up tasks, review and close them, set timers and reminders, log my weight, check in on the progress of projects I'm running on Hermes, and ask simple day to day AI questions.

Since Pebble is open source, AI tools are very good at building it, and it's trivially easy to set it up so that you can just ask the model to deploy it live. It's an awesome experience to tell it to change something, and two minutes later, that change is on your wrist.

Very fun project!