Weekend Projects^Cursor

Blander is the opposite of this old Geico commercial from 2006.

News headlines exploit our natural wiring and hijack our attention through negative, alarming, and partisan framing. It's rare that I don't feel drained and agitated after reading the news.

To reclaim my sanity, I built Blander, a Chrome extension that automatically rewrites news headlines in a bland tone while preserving the original site's styling and layout. It allows me to enjoy a natural reading experience—same information and vibe but without the anxiety.

I put this simple tool together in about two hours, and it's made browsing the news so much more pleasant!

Most people have something they wish they could do more of and something they wish they could do less of. Once they identify what those things are, they can begin to think about how to actually shift their time allocation.

Sunny is an AI voice agent designed to help people see recalibration possibilities in their existing patterns, which may then spark project ideas. Talking to Sunny is simple and takes just five minutes.

If you've never spoken with an AI voice agent before, today could be the day.

Every month, despite promises to spend more mindfully, our family kept blowing the budget on restaurants and impulse Amazon purchases. One reason was because we lacked real-time insight into our spending habits.

Miss Penny fixes this by sending a daily 8 AM text showing exactly how we're tracking against our dining out and shopping budgets.

So far, the daily text messages have helped us reduce expenses by $262 a month on average, even after tarrifs! (I update this figure monthly.)

I needed a personal website to synthesize my excitement around AI-assisted software development. Webflow used to be my go-to tool for building websites. However, I was not patient enough to dig deep into its knowledge base to pull off the elaborate tricks needed to customize the things I wanted to customize. Plus, Webflow would've cost me $300/year for the features I needed.

I ended up building this website from scratch with Cursor. I got to implement real-time calculators, custom sliders, a database, and even AI voice agent integration. I also became familiar with Svelte, a framework previously completely foreign to me. And my hosting cost is zero!

Meal planning used to be mind-numbingly tedious for our family. We would juggle multiple browser tabs for recipes while searching for ingredients on FreshDirect, often having to add common items, like lemons, multiple times.

I built Expeditr to simplify our workflow. It automatically converts up to 10 recipe URLs into one ingredient list, organized by category.

It uses an LLM to smartly consolidate ingredients listed under different names (like "scallions" and "spring onions") and combine different measurement units into single, sensible quantities. It categorizes pantry items separately, helping us identify ingredients we likely already have at home.

A tennis club's after-school program needed digital streamlining: applications arrived via email, were printed and filed, and the director had to manage from hard copies or manually enter data into spreadsheets.

I used Google Apps Script to automate the transfer of application data into Google Sheets, organizing students by semester, tracking dismissal times and transportation, managing staff assignments, and storing contact details.

This saved the program director about an hour per week.

At a local tennis club, instructors had to resort to an inconvenient method of checking their lesson schedules: they had to call the front desk several times a day. This was because the club's scheduling web app was poorly designed for mobile viewing. The frequent calls were not only tedious for the instructors but also frustrating for the front desk staff who needed to focus on serving club members.

To solve this problem, I created a web scraper that extracts lesson schedules and court assignments from the club's web app, filters them by instructor, and posts them directly to Google Calendar. This integration transforms club-level lesson schedules into a personalized, mobile-friendly calendar view.

Instructors now have immediate access to their schedules anytime, anywhere. The solution not only improved instructor organization but also allowed front desk staff to refocus on member service, resolving a point of tension.

My tennis video company's workflow requires constant monitoring of tennis club court schedules to determine when to send videos, which courts they're from, and who should receive them. This process used to require manual checks several times daily.

I built a web scraper to automate this entirely, sending updates to Google Sheets and triggering email notifications as needed.

This solution saves me 15 minutes a day. It eliminates a small but significant cognitive load from my day, allowing me uninterrupted focus on other work and personal time.