Practical writing on building smarter systems.
Most traders watch screens. I built a system that watches for me — scanning markets, evaluating signals, and executing trades around the clock. Here's exactly how it works.
Read the articleQuote forms, lead notifications, a booking calendar, a self-serve photo gallery, and a custom domain — all on a $0/month stack. Here's exactly how it came together.
The coach's AI video pipeline became a full product: a searchable coaching library, an AI that drafts every breakdown, and private player-specific feedback links — with a real privacy model where coaches never see whose feedback it is.
A volleyball coach was hand-renaming and uploading 8–10 videos a week. Now he drops a clip in a folder and an AI watches it, names it, files it in Drive, and logs it for his editors — automatically.
VolleyCenter replaced five disconnected apps with one platform — rosters, scheduling, AI practice plans, messaging, payments, and more. Here's how I built it.
AI isn't magic. Most developers bolt it on at the end and wonder why it fails. Here's a breakdown of the 7 patterns that quietly kill AI products — and how to fix each one.