I build fast, useful
things for the web.
I'm Jacob — a product builder who takes ideas from sketch to shipped: design, frontend, backend, native apps, and the quiet infrastructure in between. I care about speed, clarity, and software that respects your time.
Selected work
live in productionhidescore
Live sports scores without the spoilers. Follow your teams, see that a game is on and how far along it is — never the score before you're ready. Spoiler-masked highlight reels, custom spoiler-safe video controls, a multi-column board, and full World Cup support. Built as a Next.js web app and wrapped as native iOS & Android apps from one codebase.
The Island
A clean, genuinely useful community guide for Roosevelt Island — tram & subway times, local info, and the things residents actually need, including a senior-friendly companion app.
Alerts
A live deals dashboard for PC hardware — GPUs, SSDs and hard drives pulled from the community, de-duplicated, sorted by real price-per-terabyte, with an in-page assistant.
Family Help
A plain-language, big-text, no-login help portal I built for my parents — turn step-by-step fixes for everyday tech into a calm page anyone can read. Small, but my favorite kind of software.
Tonight in NYC
A hand-curated weekly digest of what's actually worth doing in New York — comedy, music, food, and the city's quieter gems — assembled with a little automation and a lot of taste.
Also built
nights & weekendsAbout
the short versionI'm an independent product builder based in New York. I like the whole arc of a product — finding the real problem, sketching the smallest thing that solves it, and shipping it to people. I move fast and I sweat the details that make software feel quiet and quick.
Most of what I make starts as something I wanted to exist: a way to follow sports without spoilers, a clearer guide to my neighborhood, a help page my parents could actually use. The good ones turn into real products with real users on the web, the App Store, and Google Play.
I work end to end — design through deploy — and I'm comfortable owning the boring-but-important parts: infrastructure, automation, native app pipelines, and the glue that keeps things running on their own.
Tools I reach for
How I work
Let's build something.
Freelance, full-time, or just to say hi about one of the projects — my inbox is open.