Products I designed, developed, and run

Work

Products I designed, developed, and run. Client projects join them as they launch.

01 / Product

Crate

For Ableton Live producers

The project manager for Ableton Live that runs in your browser.

What it is: Point Crate at a folder of Ableton Live projects. It reads each project and shows its tempo, key, tracks, plugins, and samples. It then sorts the projects into an inbox, a triage step, and a board with a checklist for each phase. The files never leave the computer, and the free plan works without an internet connection.
What was hard: Ableton changed how it saves projects between Live 8 and Live 12, so details like the tempo or the key sit in a different place depending on the version. Crate reads all of them. It scans hundreds of projects at once on the computer itself, with no server, and opens AIFF audio files that Chrome cannot open on its own.
What it connects to: Paddle for payments. The Studio plan keeps the board in sync across devices.
Developed: First working version 28 March 2026. Launched 13 July 2026.

02 / Product

For self-releasing artists

Give your music a home.

What it is: An artist pastes one streaming link. Soundliner finds the same track on the other streaming services and sets up the release page with cover art and liner notes. The page goes on the artist's own themed website, along with shows, galleries, and project logs. Fans follow the artist, see what is new, react, and get an email on release day.
What was hard: The artist picks two colors, and Soundliner works out a whole color theme from them, calculated so the artist cannot make their own page unreadable. Release-day emails go out in a queue that retries when something fails, slows down when the email service asks it to, and sets aside any message that keeps failing. A release can only be sent once. What each plan includes is checked on the server, so it cannot be bypassed in the browser.
What it connects to: Paddle for payments, Cloudinary for images, and Odesli to find a track on other streaming services.
Developed: First working version 16 October 2025, in three days. Open sign-up since July 2026.

03 / Product

For creators who need to prove a video is real

Prove it's really you.

What it is: A creator shows a unique verification card on camera or as a live stream overlay, then links it to the published video. Anyone watching opens the creator's public verification page to confirm the video is theirs. Viewers need no download and no account. I invented 4DAuth.
What was hard: The card has to stay recognizable when the video is heavily compressed, choppy, or badly lit. Each verification record is sealed when the video is published, so past broadcasts cannot be changed or faked later. A viewer can still check a video in about two seconds.
What it connects to: Stripe for payments, and live streaming software, so the card can appear on screen during a broadcast.
Developed: First version developed 5 March 2026, in one day. Payments live since 11 May 2026.