- S2026 — Present
Stealth Startup (Ostiara)
Building Ostiara solo, end to end: a platform for door-to-door sales teams across home-service verticals, built for, pest control, solar, roofing, fencing, security. Shipped the marketing site, an admin dashboard, and a teams-and-roles system on Clerk Organizations with Supabase row-level security, all wearing a design system I built for it. Ran customer-discovery interviews to learn how reps actually quote prices on a doorstep.
- L2026 — Present
TA & Media Manager (Seasonal) · Liberty Puzzles
Puzzle assembly and customer tours for a high-end puzzle company. Managed social accounts, created content, and engaged the puzzle community.
- C2025 — Present
Content Creator & Builder
Built an architecture-building community on Roblox (Bloxburg): designed and shared original builds that passed 600,000+ views, produced tutorial content, and grew a global audience of fellow builders. Started as genuine enjoyment and became an exercise in showing up consistently.
Right now
A quick showcase on what's fresh, a build, the open journal, and the latest essay.
Building
Recent trip
Ostiara
A SaaS platform for door-to-door sales teams across home-service verticals, pest control, solar, roofing, fencing, security.
View build ↗ For the CommunityBacktrace
An honest field instrument for reasoning about where a wildland fire started.
View on GitHub ↗ Latest essayThe Hobby Hexagon Is a Trap (And I Built One Anyway)
Published July 2026.
Read it ↗ Recent tripIceland
View Photography ↗Career journeySolo builds & side work
73 photos
View Photography ↗ 3 projects
View Design ↗ 4 essays
Photography
Design
Writing
- 2026The Hobby Hexagon Is a Trap (And I Built One Anyway)
- 2026When Bigger Means More Biased: How Scale Transforms LLMs into Confident Amplifiers of Majority Perspectives
- The Third Rotation May 2026
- The Architecture of Self-Justification: How Pride Disguises Moral Failure December 2025
Playground
Petal Simon
Press Start, watch the flowers, then repeat the sequence.
About
The person behind the stuff you see, where I'm based, what I care about, and how I like to work.
I'm a high school junior in Boulder and a self taught aspiring developer who builds full products solo, backend architecture, the design system, and the marketing copy in between. I work mostly in Next.js, TypeScript, and Tailwind, with Claude Code as a regular collaborator.
A portfolio is not proof of what you built. It is proof you noticed.