Projects

Multiforum started as a reaction to Reddit, specifically to two questions that come up constantly: Why was I downvoted? And why was my post removed? So I’ve spent the years since 2019 building an open-source community platform where these issues are addressed transparently. There are no downvotes; instead, a thumbs-down opens a text box where feedback has to be expressed in words instead of as a number. Voting happens only within an individual forum, so the people whose opinions shape a community are its actual members, not drive-by strangers. And moderation is public, transparent, and auditable: if the same post is reported five times, all five reports collect on a single page that works much like a GitHub issue, where anyone can see what was decided and why.

Multiforum runs on the idea that communities should be able to see and shape the systems governing them. People create topic-focused forums that can host discussions, events, collaborative wikis, and downloadable files. Content can be cross-posted to several forums, while voting, moderation, filters, and permissions remain specific to each community.

The app is split into a Nuxt frontend and a separate GraphQL backend that talk exclusively over GraphQL, with data stored in Neo4j and authentication handled by Auth0.

Beta Bot is a local-first writing app that pairs manuscript management with AI-powered feedback. Authors organize books into chapters, parts, and sections in a responsive editor with live preview, while the app auto-generates structured chapter summaries that track plot points, characters, and events to keep continuity across a long manuscript.

It can produce contextual reviews in several styles (fan commentary, editorial notes, or line-editing suggestions) using customizable reviewer profiles that understand the story so far. A built-in wiki holds character sheets and lore pages with change tracking and cross-document search, plus global find-and-replace across every chapter.

Data stays on-device by default, with optional AES-encrypted backups to Google Drive. The web app is available now at beta-bot.net. Electron desktop and mobile app releases are planned, with the goal of providing the same core functionality as the web app across every platform.

The app also hides an optional illustrated mini-game, Bardwall, a haunted town whose economy runs on stories. Because it draws only from the passages you actually added in your saved chapter revisions, it turns real writing progress into an in-game reward.

Clockwork Town is a browser-based life simulator that renders human experience as an IT monitoring dashboard: residents are nodes, their needs are metrics, and their emotional states surface as alerts. It treats inner life with deadpan affection by describing psychology in the flat language of uptime monitoring.

Residents move through daily routines, commuting to work or school and returning home to sleep on schedules that shift across the week, while a live relationship graph shows friendships and family ties forming and drifting over time. You can build and run multiple towns at once, each with its own households, community spaces, and characters, all displayed through a Grafana-inspired real-time dashboard.

Play is single-player and offline-capable, with encrypted Google Drive backup and restore. The frontend talks to a schema-first GraphQL backend backed by an embedded Kùzu graph database.