Projects
PokeMeFull-screen macOS alerts so you never miss a meeting.
When I’m focused on a task, I tend to lose track of time and don’t check notifications for a while. But I can’t afford to miss meetings, so I needed something that would take over my screen.
I knew of In Your Face, which does this with many more features, but I only needed the meeting alert on my Mac.
I used Claude to build the app and had something working very quickly. PokeMe has been helping me in my day-to-day work ever since.
ScratA privacy-first, local-only personal finance desktop app.
My bank’s app doesn’t have a categorisation feature, so I can’t manage my budget directly within the app.
For the past few years, I’ve been exporting my transactions and managing my budget in a Google Sheet. I’ve built plenty of formulas and graphs, but the automation was still quite limited.
I didn’t want to send my bank data to some random third-party application, and I wasn’t particularly fond of the look and feel of Actual Budget, so I decided to build my own.
It was also a good opportunity to try out Claude’s Auto mode, to see what it could do and how much guidance it would need from me.
Scrat does not connect to your bank, and the application is designed to work entirely offline. I chose to sacrifice some automation in exchange for greater privacy.