Independent Developer · Chicago

I build software that does the work for you.

I design and ship AI agents and automation that handle real tasks — usually taking an idea from nothing to something people can use, on my own.

Featured work

The flagship, plus software for a nonprofit I worked at, a shul client, and the daily life of my own community.

01AI messaging · agentsLive · signup open

Frondesk

One number, a desk for everything. Message a single WhatsApp number and a transport-agnostic broker gives you your own isolated "desk" — a Claude tool-use agent that runs your Gmail, Calendar, Drive and Outlook over chat, and files away photos and business cards as you send them. Self-hosted on a GCP VM (Node, pm2), backed by Cloudflare D1, with health monitors and watchdogs keeping it up. Code access on request.

Visit frondesk.ai
02Nonprofit · inventoryLive on the web

StockAI

Built for the Chicago Chesed Fund, a nonprofit I worked at — it started as a way to track printer supplies and grew into an AI-run stock manager. Say what you want in plain words, and a Claude tool-use loop works out the steps and makes the changes over a live Supabase database — with a web app and a Flutter Android companion.

Visit stockai.ytx.app
03Open-source siddurAndroid

AndDaaven

A davening app I helped revive. I took an abandoned open-source siddur from around 2010, rebuilt it in Flutter, cleared a roughly 40-issue backlog, and added a sunset-aware engine that quietly adjusts the prayers themselves for Shabbos, Yom Tov and the season — so you always open to the right place. Fully offline.

Visit anddaaven.ytx.app
04Client workIn beta

Shul Portal

A synagogue's home online, built for a paying client: candle-lighting and the next minyan at a glance, full minyan and shiur schedules, zmanim, mikva and hall info, and sponsorship flows. Live in beta testing on iOS and Android.

Visit shul.ytx.app
05Jewish daily lifeIn development

Zmanim Clock

An Android app that sets your phone's own alarms to the Jewish clock. It computes the halachic times for wherever you are, arms your alarms to match, and quietly recalculates them every night.

Visit zmanim.ytx.app

Tools & systems

Infrastructure I built for myself — and use every day.

06Browser automation · TypeScriptIn daily use

FastLink

A bridge that lets Claude drive a real Chrome tab — reading pages, clicking, filling forms, and recovering when a page breaks by falling back to reading the screen visually. Written in TypeScript, public on GitHub, and I lean on it constantly as my own automation tooling.

Visit fl.ytx.app
07AI workflowLive

Gemini Live → Claude brief

A web app I talk to out loud while sharing my screen: Gemini Live is the planning partner, and when I'm done it auto-writes a structured brief that Claude Code builds from. One self-contained page — voice and a screen in, a build-ready spec out.

Visit brief.ytx.app
About

I'm a developer in Chicago. What I enjoy most is taking an idea and getting it to something real and working — fast, and usually by myself.

Most of what I build sits where AI meets an everyday, practical problem, and a good deal of it is made for my own community. I work across the whole stack — web, Flutter and Android, databases, cloud — and I like the part where a rough idea becomes a thing people actually use.

I lean on Claude heavily, and I've built my own tooling around it — from browser automation to orchestrating whole teams of AI agents in parallel, splitting a big job into parts and running them at once. If you're working on agents, automation, or something that should just quietly work, I'd like to hear about it.

Based in
Chicago, Illinois
Focus
AI agents · automation · full-stack
Works with
TypeScript · Flutter/Dart · Kotlin · Supabase · GCP
Ways of working
Independent · end-to-end · ships fast

Get in touch

Have something you're building, or an idea that should just work? Send a note — it goes straight to my inbox.

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