Projects
Most of what I build lives inside someone else’s business and cannot be shown. These are the ones I can: my own projects, described the way I would want to read about someone else’s — what the problem was, how it is actually put together, and where it honestly stands.
| Year | Sector | Project | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Software testing | Nova QA | Software that tests other software the way a person would: it opens the application in a real browser, works its way through it, tries the things a careful tester would try, and writes up what it found for someone to accept or throw out. The difference is that it remembers. Week by week it builds up a picture of one particular application — which pages exist, which journeys matter, what has broken before, which reports were already rejected — so it gets better at your product rather than staying generally capable. It is for teams who release often enough that nobody has time to click through everything again. The site is open to read; signing in to a queue is by invitation. |
| 2026 | Security software | Nova Secrets | A password manager for companies: one place for the logins, keys and certificates a business runs on, shared with the people who need them and with the systems that need them at three in the morning. What makes it different is that the service itself can never read what you put in it — not the company running it, and not anyone who walks off with a copy of the database. Not publicly available. |
| 2026 | Gaming | Starlane | A space game you play in a browser tab, in the time you actually have. You start with no ship and an empty chart — the dockmaster fronts you your first hull, and the map fills in one lane at a time, with nobody publishing how many systems there are. Nothing is made until somebody researches the recipe for it, and the larger ships are laid down by players out of what they have mined and refined; most jobs can also be hand-played as a small puzzle for a faster or cheaper result, though none of that is required and none of it is for sale. One universe that keeps going whether you are there or not, no seasons and no wipes, and the pilots decide what gets built next — file an idea on a board inside the game and you are paid in credits when it ships. Free to play, with no client to install and nothing to buy. |
| 2024 | Developer tools | Faxtorial Tools | Five small tools of the kind you reach for a few times a week: formatting JSON, reading a JSON Web Token, converting Base64, testing a regular expression and previewing Markdown. They are free, need no account, and do the work inside the browser tab rather than on a server — so nothing you paste is ever uploaded. That last part is the point: most of the alternatives want a sign-up, and pasting a live token into someone else’s website is a habit worth losing. |
Software testing · 2026
Nova QA — a QA engineer you build up over time instead of hire
Software that tests other software the way a person would: it opens the application in a real browser, works its way through it, tries the things a careful tester would try, and writes up what it found for someone to accept or throw out. The difference is that it remembers. Week by week it builds up a picture of one particular application — which pages exist, which journeys matter, what has broken before, which reports were already rejected — so it gets better at your product rather than staying generally capable. It is for teams who release often enough that nobody has time to click through everything again. The site is open to read; signing in to a queue is by invitation.
Read more about Nova QA — a QA engineer you build up over time instead of hire
Security software · 2026
Nova Secrets — a zero-knowledge secrets manager for teams and machines
A password manager for companies: one place for the logins, keys and certificates a business runs on, shared with the people who need them and with the systems that need them at three in the morning. What makes it different is that the service itself can never read what you put in it — not the company running it, and not anyone who walks off with a copy of the database. Not publicly available.
Read more about Nova Secrets — a zero-knowledge secrets manager for teams and machines
Gaming · 2026
Starlane — a persistent-universe space game
A space game you play in a browser tab, in the time you actually have. You start with no ship and an empty chart — the dockmaster fronts you your first hull, and the map fills in one lane at a time, with nobody publishing how many systems there are. Nothing is made until somebody researches the recipe for it, and the larger ships are laid down by players out of what they have mined and refined; most jobs can also be hand-played as a small puzzle for a faster or cheaper result, though none of that is required and none of it is for sale. One universe that keeps going whether you are there or not, no seasons and no wipes, and the pilots decide what gets built next — file an idea on a board inside the game and you are paid in credits when it ships. Free to play, with no client to install and nothing to buy.
Developer tools · 2024
Faxtorial Tools — small developer tools that run in the browser
Five small tools of the kind you reach for a few times a week: formatting JSON, reading a JSON Web Token, converting Base64, testing a regular expression and previewing Markdown. They are free, need no account, and do the work inside the browser tab rather than on a server — so nothing you paste is ever uploaded. That last part is the point: most of the alternatives want a sign-up, and pasting a live token into someone else’s website is a habit worth losing.
Read more about Faxtorial Tools — small developer tools that run in the browser
Client work is not listed here — most of it cannot be, and the rest is better described in a conversation than in a case study.
Yours would not look like these.
These are my own; most of what I do is someone else’s and stays private. Tell me what you are working on and I will tell you whether it is a good fit.