Beyond my work at iBRAIN, I've worked on a couple side projects in the background. Some are serious (advisory boards, mission aligned organizations). Some are not (an interactive browser based party game to play with friends). Have certainly learned a lot from them all.
Advisory Board Member · FPDN.org.pl
Fundacja "Praca dla Niewidomych" (Foundation "Work for the Blind") is one of the largest foundations of its kind in Poland, with a mission to provide meaningful employment and economic independence for people who are blind or visually impaired.
As an Advisory Board member, I support the executive team with financial and operational models and long term business strategy, helping the foundation pursue financial self sufficiency without compromising its core mission.
Visit the Foundation's Website →
Co founder · ruckusparty.io
Ruckus Party is a browser based party game I co founded with a friend. Think Jackbox meets Adult Swim energy, using LLMs and TTS to create fun social experiences for up to 10 friends. We built it from scratch and have since scaled it to thousands of players across the US, Europe, and Southeast Asia.
This has been a crash course in things I had never done before: game design and balancing, browser based product development with a small dev team, SEO and content strategy, paid social, community building on Discord and Reddit, and managing a Philippines based outreach team.
iBRAIN taught me how to scale an organization. Ruckus Party is teaching me how to scale a product on the open internet, where nobody has to take your call.
See Ruckus Party →
My first idea out of college was an attempt to make housing more affordable. The idea was a market maker for co ownership: a platform that let groups of friends easily purchase a home together and, just as easily, let any one of them cash out their equity and exit without forcing a sale. The thesis was that the friction of co ownership (lawyers, exits, disagreements, refinances) was the reason it did not happen at scale, and that a well designed market maker could fix it.
The numbers did not cooperate.... Once we modeled the unit economics against the prevailing interest rate environment and the risk parameters required to run the book responsibly, we hit a wall: the product was either too expensive for the consumers it was meant to help, or the margins were too thin for the company to absorb the risk of holding equity stakes especially given the financial instability of many during the Covid pandemic era. We killed it in ideation, though not before successfully passing the SAFE Mortgage Loan Originator exam... Sigh, a license I'll never get to use.
See Incompany.webflow.io →