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I’m building the company in public because hiding it was the actual risk

Everyone thinks the risk is people seeing the rough edges. The real risk is the polished thing that never leaves your machine. Here's what building in public actually looks like, day to day.

Sep 6, 2026

A number that stops the scroll: making a stat card without opening design software

One big animated number does more work than a paragraph of claims. Here's how I build the eyebrow / number / clarifier stack in the browser in about two minutes, no design skills required.

Aug 30, 2026

A black-and-white version of your animation is the secret to faking depth in Resolve

Flat animated shapes look flat. But export a grayscale "depth matte" alongside your color version, feed it to Resolve, and suddenly your graphic sits in space.

Aug 23, 2026

Two people, one teleprompter, no app to download

For years I rebuilt the same hack: one person drives the scroll, another reads. So I made it a browser teleprompter you share with a link. Here's how it works, and why the script never touches our server.

Aug 16, 2026

I gave away the free tools and kept the boring ones. Here’s the actual math.

I made the fun tools free and put a price on the boring ones. People assume "free" means "worse." It doesn't. Here's the real reasoning, no spin.

Aug 9, 2026

You can record a chat conversation that animates itself, in your browser

The text-conversation-that-types-itself video everyone's seen on social. I always thought you needed After Effects for it. You don't. You can build the whole thing in a browser.

Aug 2, 2026

Every minute of a live show needs a row, or nobody knows what to do

My first live show, the rundown had gaps. The breaks were blank. And the second we hit one, the whole room turned and looked at me. Here's the rule I wish someone had handed me before that day.

Jul 26, 2026

I built a whole city in Blender without modeling a single building

I wanted a glowing anime skyline and did the math on modeling it — hundreds of buildings, thousands of windows — and quietly gave up. So I built the thing that makes the city for you. Slide, click, and there's a skyline.

Jul 25, 2026

I made stream graphics in the browser and pasted one link into OBS

I built a Starting Soon / BRB / Live set in the browser, pasted one link into OBS, and watched it render live with a real countdown. There was nothing to download. That broke my brain a little.

Jul 19, 2026

Short. Punchy. Gone.

Jun 28, 2026

Hear It While You See It

Jun 21, 2026

The Hardest Edit Is What You Don’t Say

Jun 14, 2026

We Don’t Read Video

Jun 7, 2026

Cue. The tool to help you create

May 4, 2026

Wash, Rinse, blow it up

Mar 26, 2026

Show, Don’t Pitch: Why Starting Frame Is Being Built as the Portfolio First

Starting Frame is being rebuilt from the ground up — brand second, work first. Here’s the strategy behind building a creative agency by proving the point, not pitching it.

Mar 24, 2026

Make something. Start now.

Work, tools, and thinking from someone who ships before ready.