Projects

I build websites. A lot of websites. Here are the personal projects I've worked on over the years and what's going on with them today.

Project	Years	Status	Description
GamerBingo	2024 ‑	Side Project	Bingo cards for gamers, useful for speedrunning (or just a new challenge). Also with cooking bingo cards!
Wotzal	2023 ‑	Side Project	Maths training and mental arithmetic practice app.
Raganam	2022 ‑	Side Project	Wordle clone, daily anagram puzzle.
Culturle	2022 ‑	Side Project	Wordle clone, pop culture references only.
Childnado	2021 ‑	Personal Site	Non-techy project log. Woodwork, cooking ... basically an ongoing list of hobby projects.
AsUsedBy	2020 ‑	In Development	To be announced :)
ApolloPad	2016 ‑	In Beta	ApolloPad is online novel-writing software, designed to get out of your way and help you finish your novel.
Readable	2016 ‑	Full time	Readable is a collection of tools to help make your content even more engaging, and since 2016 has gone from being a side project to my full time job.
ScorchBox	2015	Closed	ScorchBox was to be a chilli subscription box for the UK. Unfortunately, while developing the product two new competitive boxes were released and we opted not to proceed.
Trivibot	2013 ‑ 2017	Closed	TriviBot was a Twitter app based on an old IRC quizbot, which asked questions and awarded a point to the first person to answer each correctly.
IconJoiner	2012 ‑ 2016	Closed	IconJoiner was a fun side-project, a digital service you could use to generate sets of icons by combining other sets.
FeedbackFair	2012 ‑ 2016	Closed	FeedbackFair was an independant consumer purchase review site. It was shuttered in 2016 to allow me to focus on Readable.
Mathaversaries	2011 ‑	Side Project	Mathaversaries tells you when you're 10,000,000 minutes old, or when you've been married for 1,000 days - that sort of thing.
Cheatography	2011 ‑	Side Project	Cheatography is a complete labour of love, a free service where you can make, upload, share and download free cheat sheets for every topic under the sun.
Envoy	2010 ‑ 2016	Closed	Envoy was a bug tracker and project management application. It was shuttered in 2016 to allow me to focus on Readable.
ModemEmulator	2008 ‑ 2010	Open Sourced	This project started as a simple tool to allow designers to see how their sites would load on a slow connection. It was turned into an open source project in 2010.
ColorSudoku	2006 ‑ 2010	Closed	Colour Sudoku was a generator for a unique new type of sudoku puzzle.
Readability‑Score.com	2004 ‑ 2016	Became Readable.com	Before Readable was Readable, it was a free side-project at readability-score.com. In 2016 it became a real business and my full-time job.
AloneOnAHill	2003 ‑	Personal Blog	It's gone by several names over the years, but this is where my personal blog now lives.
AddedBytes	2003 ‑	Full Time	What started as a simple development blog in 2003 has evolved into my SaaS product company.
CrosswordCheats	2003 ‑	Side Project	A side project created at the request of Mrs Dave, CrosswordCheats is a crossword solver and cryptic crossword training system.
Tooyoo	2002 ‑ 2007	Closed	A social network for the users of the now closed Dooyoo.

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