STEVE MULLIGAN — INDEPENDENT DEVELOPER · OTTAWA, CANADA · 45.4215° N, 75.6972° W
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I'm Steve Mulligan — an independent developer building AI‑powered apps, indie games for Steam and iOS, and open-source tools for fellow developers.
Most of it gets planned on a trail somewhere in Gatineau Park, then shipped from Ottawa.
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Three areas of practice. The trail crosses all of them — most projects sit at a junction.
Word Exchange Plaza, a Duolingo-style platform where teachers build their own courses in Hindi, Arabic, French, Norwegian, and more, with ElevenLabs-powered audio baked in. Plus Clarion for speaking with confidence, conversational AI agents, and real-time speech translation, end to end.
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Small games with big personalities — AI companions that actually notice the world, whimsical gardens, fast trivia, and a survivors-like in the works.
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Screenplay for first draft to finished video. NullCommits for cleaner git history. Latest Relayer for $5-a-month live streaming. BingBong for loud signup alerts. Open source by default.
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LOG · 2026-07-15 · 10 MIN
Six suspects. One lie that doesn't hold. Every case is generated backwards from the solution, and every suspect answers in their own voice.
LOG · 2026-07-15 · 10 MIN
A desk companion that DJs a never-ending YouTube mix with minimal repeats — and remembers you, talks back, and evolves a personality of her own.
LOG · 2026-07-15 · 9 MIN
A live scoreboard of time since your last slip. Built for streamers, useful for anyone dropping the "um", the "sorry", or the swearing.
LOG · 2026-07-15 · 9 MIN
Speech practice for communicating with clarity and confidence — a scored teleprompter with live, delayed, or masked playback of your own voice.
21:40 · BACK AT THE FLATS · 122 M · CLEAR SKIES
AI development, indie game collaborations, or something we haven't thought of yet — the best way to reach me is LinkedIn.
