ch. 05 — collections

Collections

The morgue of ideas. A timeline. A shoebox of saved things.

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Morgue of Ideas

ideas I wrote down before they were useful. most stay dead. some come back years later as something completely different.

FlowForge — extract a chat's essence, make it portable across models.
YouTube extension that gently asks: is this what you came here for?
Web Time Machine — resurrected from the notebook years later.
A reader that hides the title until you finish.
git blame, but kind.
What if the settings page was the homepage?
A feed that only shows things older than a year.
An app that only opens at 6am.
Calendar that just says 'today'.
Highlights-only reader for books you've already read.

A short timeline

2021 · aug
•
Started college at MSIT
First year. First serious laptop. First real codebase that wasn't an assignment.
2022
•
Built ShareBoard
Practical exams week. 50+ classmates used it. The first time software felt like something I wanted to keep doing.
2024 · dec
•
Joined Pazy (intern)
First fintech. First time co-designing an API instead of waiting for one. First design system I actually shipped.
2025 · jun
•
Full Stack at Pazy
Shipped the UTR reconciliation pipeline. Reconciliation went from hours to under 5 minutes.
2025 · aug
•
Joined Bookswagon
Inherited a 1.8-star WebView app averaging 3 orders/day. Started sketching the rebuild that night.
2025 · oct
•
Flutter rebuild shipped
8 weeks. Alone. 3 → 58 orders/day. The numbers felt smaller than watching the reviews change.
2026 · q1
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Next.js + Federation began
From rebuilding the app to redesigning the platform underneath it.
2026 · ongoing
•
Started this notebook
Because a portfolio site is the wrong shape for how I actually work.

Screenshots, kept

type something…
the editor i keep returning to
you have nothing scheduled.
a calendar with manners
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the only navigation that ever feels right
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