Things I’ve built with Claude

Giovanni in Milwaukee, July to October 2026

Phone apps, a home media server, video and campaign work for a nonprofit, and the tools in between: three months of building with an AI as my engineering partner.

The 30-second version

What I can build for you

  • Apps built around you

    A phone or desktop app that fits how you or your business works.

  • Automations that run themselves

    Jobs that log, sort and file in the background, then report back once a day.

  • Video, captions and campaigns

    Clips, captions and post series made from one source, with the month scheduled.

  • Cleanup and organizing

    Photo libraries, catalogs, backups and years of messy files, sorted and checked file by file.

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Projects

Everything shown is running for real, captured from my own phone.

Android app · Aug to Oct

Fern

Why
My bank app showed transactions, not where my money actually went.
What
Share a screenshot, receipt or text, and it logs the spending, sorted into categories, with budgets and goals.
How
An AI model reads the image. Each month, Fern checks its own numbers against my bank statements and flags anything that doesn’t match.
3 yrsof history imported
12bank statement formats

Daily use since August

Android app · Aug to Oct

Anchor

Why
Screen-time limits never stuck, because skipping them was one tap away.
What
A daily time budget per app. When it runs out, the app stays locked.
How
To get more time, I have to walk to another room and tap an NFC sticker, then sit through a short breathing pause before deciding.

Daily use

Linux · self-hosting · Aug to Oct

The home server

Why
Years of movies and music sat on drives nobody could watch from the couch.
What
A streaming server for the TV, phone and laptop, at home or away.
How
An old PC running Ubuntu and Jellyfin. Scripts file new movies and music, and two daily summaries replace dozens of alerts.
< 1 wkto build
259films
2,329songs

Live

Android app · Jul to Aug

WingBot

Why
Good openers take time, and generic ones go nowhere.
What
Reads the dating profile on screen and drafts three openers in my own voice.
How
It learned my tone from my past messages. It only suggests; I decide what gets sent. Shown here on my own profile.

Used weekly

Client work · Sep to Oct

RTNNV: social, video and web

Why
A nonprofit with great TV coverage and no time to turn it into social content.
What
Captioned clips from TV interviews, a 25-post aging-in-place series, and a month of posts scheduled.
How
One interview becomes many posts: transcribed, cut, captioned, then scheduled across Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn.

Watch the highlight reel with sound

Ongoing

Android + desktop · Sep to Oct

Nocturne

Why
Writing down a dream at 4 a.m. usually means waking all the way up.
What
A dream journal on a black screen with dim amber text: speak the dream, tap save, go back to sleep.
How
Speech is turned into text on the phone itself. A desktop app later finds recurring symbols across dreams going back to 2018.

Daily use

Cairn, the home-screen widget
Cairn, the home-screen widget

Android app + widget · Aug

Windrose + Cairn

Why
Weather apps say “15 mph wind”, not whether it’s a good evening to ride.
What
Picks today’s best window to ride or paddle, and which loop to take.
How
It’s built from my own ride history: when I actually ride and which loops I use. Cairn puts it on my home screen next to my other apps.
94of my rides analyzed
6home loops

On my home screen

Android app · Jul to Aug

R10Connect

Why
Garmin’s app is built for one golfer, not a party around a simulator.
What
Connects to a Garmin R10 launch monitor and flies every swing on a 3D range.
How
It talks to the R10 directly over Bluetooth. Party games and leaderboards for my Social Green Co. events are next.

Party mode in progress

More builds

Also built: Hashtag Genie (an Instagram hashtag app) · Transcoder (batch video encoding) · 3D-printed lamp and jar lids · A Social Green Co. event kit on one USB stick · Google Takeout migration (1,369 phone files sorted) · Battery health logger

How it gets made

I describe what I need in plain words, Claude Code writes it and installs it on my phone, it has to prove it works on the real device, and then I live with it and push back. All of it was built around a day job and client work.

Work with me

A tool for your business, a cleaner way to run your photos or files, an app only you need, or a campaign that has to ship by Friday. Tell me the problem.

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