The machines, taken apart
Each one: the problem it solved, the decisions that were not obvious, what it cost to build and run, and what actually changed.
- AI content pipeline
Animation Studio — the video that is a text file
The renderer under the content pipeline. An HTML file is the source of truth for a video, a headless browser scrubs it frame by frame, and the same file always produces the same MP4.
- Export formats, four with alpha
- 6
- Aspect ratios from one render
- 3
- Cloud services involved
- 0
- Instafeeder
Instafeeder — the scheduler that refuses to guess
A social publishing command center built around one rule: it is structurally incapable of telling you something false about your own content. Ten weeks, solo, with agents.
- Build time, solo
- 10 weeks
- Channels supported
- 13
- Agent tools, same permissions as the UI
- 61
- InterStudio
InterStudio — the generation studio Claude can drive
Image, video and voice generation in one desktop window, with every asset kept in a searchable library next to the prompt that made it. The part nobody planned for: an agent can drive the whole thing.
- Runs since April
- 747
- Models behind one window
- 4
- Cloud services, beyond the model calls
- 0
- Leadd
Leadd — the lead machine, not the lead tool
Three weeks and 393 commits on a pipeline that finds businesses, digs out the real email, verifies it before it dares send, scores it with an LLM, and changes its own mind about where to look next week.
- Commits, 22 days solo
- 393
- Test files
- 242
- Durable, replayable flows
- 24
- Link-o-Mator
Link-o-Mator — links, tasks and money in one database
A personal operating system built to kill three dead systems at once: a link graveyard, a task app nobody opened, and money spread across two currencies that no budgeting app could see. Three months, 275 commits.
- Commits, three months solo
- 275
- Tests green
- 619
- Capture surfaces
- 4
- The automation backbone
The lead engine running on this page
The capture system behind the free tools on this site — what it is made of, why it is ordered the way it is, and what happens when a piece of it goes down.
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- Voice AI speed-to-lead