Three Apps, One Month

I shipped three things in January and I’m stupidly proud of how they turned out.

The wild part? All three came from Claude Code. Different problems, different solutions, but somehow they all kind of work together as a collection. Might be bias, but I think they show something interesting about what happens when you’re not fighting boilerplate and setup.

TransFat Detector

https://transfat-detector.vercel.app/

Ok you look at nuturtioin facts. There is a row for trans fat and the value is 0g. I thought why is this even here?

Turns out there is a loophole for trans fats in the US. The FDA allows food manufacturers to round down trans fat content to zero if it contains less than 0.5 grams per serving. This means a product can claim “0g trans fat” on the nutrition label even if it actually contains up to 0.49 grams per serving.

I thought—why can’t I just point my phone at a label and get a straight answer?

So I built that.

Point your camera at a nutrition label, get an instant yes/no on trans fats plus context for everything else on the label. Works for people managing dietary restrictions, parents, anyone who just wants clarity without the hassle.

Bridges

https://mlk-app.vercel.app/

Fast forward a couple weeks. MLK Day hit and I couldn’t shake this thought: we’re really bad at understanding each other.

Everyone talks about polarization like it’s inevitable. Like if you disagree on something, that’s just it—you’re enemies. But that’s not actually true. Most of the time, people care about the same things. They just see things differently or see different paths forward.

I made Bridges to test that.

You feed it two opposing viewpoints. Environmental advocates vs. fossil fuel workers. Progressives vs. conservatives. Whatever. Claude digs past the surface and shows you what actually connects them. The shared values. The common ground that exists beneath the argument.

I wanted it to feel thoughtful, not flashy. Sepia and serif, typography that nods to MLK’s time but doesn’t feel historical. The whole thing’s designed to reward slowing down, not speed.

Less “solve a problem” and more “what if we used AI to help people see each other differently?”

Terminal Tweaker

https://terminal-tweaker.vercel.app/

New computer. Lots of dotfiles. The thought of manually recreating my entire terminal setup—hunting through configs, remembering which file does what, tweaking the shell until it looked right—felt like pointless friction.

Instead of doing it, I built an app to never do it again.

Terminal Tweaker lets you customize your terminal visually. Real-time preview of your prompt. Themes, preset aliases, Neovim configs. You click, you see what it looks like, you adjust. When you’re happy, you export and it’s ready to go.

Terminal customization is visual design. The app just makes the invisible visible.

Why This Matters

Three months ago, Claude Code wasn’t the first thing I went to for creating things. I would’ve either done these the long way or not done them at all.

What happened instead: I spent my cognitive energy on the parts that matter. The experience. What problem am I actually solving. Who is this for. Not scaffolding or setup or “am I using this library right.”

They’re completely different apps because they solve different things. But there’s something underneath all three: removing unnecessary complexity. Making things clearer. Respecting the person using them enough to not waste their time.

I want to keep building this way.