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SURVEY SHEET · 11:30 · FULL SUN · 11 SPECIMENS LOGGED

The full survey.

AI-powered applications, indie games, and open-source creator tools. Built in Ottawa, shipped around the world, 2018 to now.

Shouldermen, a moody atmospheric indie game scene with strong directional light

SPECIMEN 01 · SHOULDERMEN · STEAM · LIVE

Shouldermen

An indie game on Steam featuring AI-driven companions and emergent gameplay. Intelligent NPC behavior and dynamic storytelling, built around what AI characters can do when they actually notice the world.

A dimly lit arcade with glowing screens and dramatic shadows

SPECIMEN 02 · FCF SURVIVORS · IN DEV

FCF Survivors

A survivors-style indie game. Tight action loops, escalating waves, and run-based progression that keeps a round from ever feeling the same twice. Built in the open on GitHub.

A microphone in warm low light

SPECIMEN 03 · LIVE TRANSLATE LIVE · WEB · LIVE

Live Translate Live

Real-time translation software for conversations, powering multilingual communication with low-latency AI. Built for business meetings, conferences, and cross-language collaboration.

An open notebook with handwriting in warm light

SPECIMEN 04 · WORD EXCHANGE PLAZA · WEB · LIVE

Word Exchange Plaza

A Duolingo-style language learning platform for Hindi, Arabic, French, Norwegian, and more. Teachers create their own courses, serve their own ads, and produce studio-quality audio in minutes through an ElevenLabs-powered admin.

A dim pub interior with warm overhead lighting

SPECIMEN 05 · BRAIN FU · MOBILE · LIVE

Brain Fu

A multiplayer pub trivia app that brings bar quiz night to your phone. Real-time trivia battles across hundreds of categories. Fast, fun, and fiercely competitive.

A yellow wildflower in soft golden afternoon light

SPECIMEN 06 · DANDELOPIA · iOS · LIVE

Dandelopia

A colorful iOS indie game with hand-crafted levels and whimsical art. A charming puzzle experience designed for mobile.

A vintage typewriter and film clapperboard on a warm wooden desk

SPECIMEN 07 · SCREENPLAY · OSS

Screenplay

A collaborative screenwriting platform that takes a script from first draft to finished video. Real-time editing, AI writing assist, beat-organized plots, concept art, storyboards, and video generation in one place.

A code editor showing structured commit lines

SPECIMEN 08 · NULLCOMMITS · OSS

NullCommits

An AI commit message generator that analyzes your diffs to produce meaningful, conventional commit messages. For developers who care about clean history.

Server hardware in a quiet, dimly-lit space

SPECIMEN 09 · LATEST RELAYER · OSS

Latest Relayer

An open-source live streaming relay server designed for self-hosted relay on a budget. Affordable streaming infrastructure that runs on a low-cost VPS.

A chess board photographed from above in soft daylight

SPECIMEN 10 · GAVIOTA PROBE .NET · OSS

Gaviota Probe .NET

A .NET port of the Gaviota chess endgame tablebase probing library. Perfect play in simplified positions for chess engines built on .NET.

A small wired desktop speaker on a wooden desk in warm side light

SPECIMEN 11 · BINGBONG · OSS · AUDIBLE

BingBong

A self-hosted webhook noisemaker that plays a sound through any Windows audio output the moment an HTTP request hits it. Plumbed into signup and login on a handful of my sites, with one stated design goal — to eventually become annoying enough that I unplug it.

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