Decidedly Optimistic

My work

to bring more truth, beauty, and love into the world through the things I create.

In the future

Mana’olana

A future city built around hope (mana’olana means exactly that) — the most ambitious thing on this list, and the one still ahead of me.

Visit Mana’olana →

Working on now

Amend iD

One living profile you control — your people in the circles you choose, always current. Contacts, reimagined around the human being. In beta.

Visit Amend iD →

Working on now

Electric Sites

Yes, this is what pays my bills right now — so if you need a really cool website, SEO, or some great custom software built, reach out.

Visit Electric Sites →

Working on now

Build by Amend

A version-control diagram builder — turn branches, merges, and history into clean, shareable visuals. Live today.

Open Build by Amend →

Working on now

Value Maps

A free and open source 3D globe of what the world wants — with real open data.

Visit Value Maps →

More recently

Amend Advice

A place to ask for — and give — genuinely good advice.

More recently

Amend Life

Tools for living a life on purpose, not by accident.

More recently

Amend Projects

A home for projects and the people who build them.

After that

Good Habits

Light up a star for every day you keep a habit. Free, private (saved in your browser), and open source.

Open Good Habits →

After that

Note

A small, fast place to write things down before they escape.

Open Note →

After that

Life Calendar

Your whole life on a single page — the weeks you’ve lived and the weeks still ahead. Clarifying, a little terrifying, mostly motivating.

Life Cal — simple →

My Timeline — with info →

After that

Write

A focused space for getting the words out.

Then these

Ez Pack

A fast packing-estimator for a pack-and-ship counter.

Visit Ez Pack →

Then these

Guest Watch

A cheap wearable for Hawaii’s tourism & hospitality industry — your room key, ID, and wallet on your wrist. Order a drink, make a purchase, or rent a jet ski or surfboard without bringing your ID/passport or wallet to the beach.

Then these

JARVIS

Voice control for your computer and smart home — a real JARVIS, built on Windows Voice Control at first, before going onto Raspberry Pis. Started by Mike C., and later the team and I grew it past 300k users before I left in 2011.

The first things I made

Karts Evolved

Mario Kart in real life: electric go-karts rigged with laser-tag guns, plus track pickups — speed boosts, mud traps, targets to hit. I built a demo but never shipped it; someone’s doing a version now — see BattleKart.

The first things I made

FireworkZ

Software for fireworks sellers — let customers build their own fireworks show and preview it, online or in-store, before they buy.