What I've Been Building

I have a habit of building things. Some of them ship. Some of them pivot. All of them teach me something. Over the past year or so I have been working across a range of projects that span infrastructure tooling, identity verification, real estate intelligence, community philosophy, and even wildlife. Here is where things stand.

Build and Ship: Deploy to Your Own Hardware

The cloud is great until you get the bill. That thought is what kicked off Build and Ship (buildandship.it), a self-hosted deployment platform that lets developers ship applications to their own machines with a single command.

The idea is simple. You point it at a server you own, push your code, and the platform handles the rest. It auto-detects over 15 frameworks (Next.js, Django, Go, Rust, Docker, and more), containerizes your app, runs zero-downtime blue-green deployments, performs health checks, and gives you a public URL. There is a CLI, a VS Code sidebar extension, and even right-click deploy support.

Under the hood, secrets are encrypted with AES-256, networking runs over a WireGuard mesh, and the built-in dashboard gives you fleet metrics, audit logging, and real-time alerts. SSL certificates and custom domains are handled automatically.

The CLI is MIT-licensed and open source. The platform itself is free forever. You bring the hardware, we bring the tooling. It is a bet on the idea that developers should own their infrastructure without needing to become infrastructure engineers. Heroku made deployment simple by taking your servers away. Build and Ship tries to make deployment simple while letting you keep them.

PulseProof: Proving You Are Human with Your Heartbeat

PulseProof (pulseproof.app) started from a question that keeps getting louder: how do you prove a real human is on the other end of a screen?

CAPTCHAs are annoying and increasingly beatable by bots. SMS verification leaks your phone number. PulseProof takes a different approach entirely. It uses your heartbeat as a biometric signal to generate a zero-knowledge proof that you are a living person, without ever sending raw biometric data off your device.

The system works two ways. On Apple Watch, it captures pulse data through the PPG (photoplethysmography) sensor, the green light that measures blood volume changes. On iPhone, it uses the front camera with an rPPG algorithm that detects micro skin color fluctuations caused by your pulse. Either way, the signal generates a Groth16 zero-knowledge proof on-device, signed by the Secure Enclave, and transmitted as a compact CBOR token.

There are three trust tiers. Camera-only liveness is the lightest touch. Watch-fused dual-signal combines both inputs. Full ZK-sovereign proof adds hardware attestation for maximum assurance. The iOS SDK is designed for drop-in integration with minimal code.

The core principle is privacy-first. No biometric data leaves your phone. The verifier learns exactly one thing: that a living human was present. Nothing about who that human is.

Plotari: A Kelley Blue Book for Real Estate

Plotari (plotari.com) is something I have been working on for a while now. The thesis is straightforward. Cars have Kelley Blue Book. Stocks have public markets. Real estate has... vibes and a listing agent's opinion.

Plotari is a crowdsourced real estate intelligence platform. Homeowners upload their properties to gauge market sentiment. Buyers, neighbors, investors, and agents all contribute price predictions. The platform surfaces real-time market signals before a home ever officially lists.

There are a few key features. Plot View gives you dynamic property profiles with valuations and trends. +Plot Value lets the crowd weigh in with price opinions. Plot Expert provides AI-driven market reports and tools for agents. And Plot Post lets homeowners showcase properties with photos, video, and insights before going to market.

The bet here is that collective intelligence, combined with data, produces better price signals than any single appraiser or algorithm. We are running an early-access program with competitive prizes for prediction accuracy to bootstrap that feedback loop.

Church of MYOB: Mind Your Own Business

Church of MYOB is a different kind of project. It is not a SaaS product or a mobile app. It is a community and a philosophy.

The name stands for Mind Your Own Business, and the idea is both a joke and entirely serious. In an age of constant surveillance, hot takes, and everyone having an opinion about how you should live your life, there is something radical about simply minding your own business. It is an invitation to focus on your own craft, your own growth, your own lane.

The project lives at the intersection of creative community and philosophical provocation. Think of it as part social experiment, part tongue-in-cheek manifesto. The "church" framing is deliberately playful. There are no sermons. There is no doctrine. There is just a shared commitment to the idea that the best thing you can do for the world is to get really good at your own thing and let others do the same.

BirdDex: A Pokedex for Birds

BirdDex is the project that makes people smile. The concept is exactly what it sounds like: a Pokedex, but for birds.

You upload a photo of a bird you spotted, and the app identifies the species using machine learning. It gives you the common name, scientific name, a description, and even audio of the bird's call. The goal is to turn casual birdwatching into something more interactive and collectible.

It is early stage. The current version is minimal. But the idea has legs (and wings). Birding is one of the fastest-growing hobbies in the world, and there is something satisfying about building a collection of every species you have encountered. The ML model for identification is the core technical challenge, and it is the piece I am most interested in refining.

Everything Else

These five projects sit alongside the rest of the portfolio: NeuralQuery for natural language data queries, OceanusInvest for transparent startup investing, Verus for decentralized identity, Ponos for algorithmic trading, GovFinder for government contract intelligence, and more.

The common thread is not a vertical or a technology stack. It is a bias toward building. I would rather have five projects at various stages of completion than one perfectly polished pitch deck. The messiness is the point. Each project teaches something that feeds into the next. Build and Ship came from frustration deploying my other projects. PulseProof came from thinking about identity while working on Verus. Plotari came from wondering why real estate pricing felt so opaque while building data tools at NeuralQuery.

If you want to follow along, most of this work is public. The code ships. The products launch. Some of them stick. The ones that do not still leave behind lessons worth having.

That is what I have been building. Now back to building.