Sean Makes Stuff
Simple, useful apps for Apple platforms and Chrome. Built by one person who just likes making things.
Projects
Haunt Hopper
Every Halloween yard haunt and light show in Washington, Oregon and southern BC that’s posted this season, pulled off the Pacific NW Christmas Lights map and rewritten so the good part is on the card: what you’ll actually see, which nights the fog and animatronics run, and what to tune the car radio to. Pick a night and it hides whatever’s dark; add stops and it works out the drive, your arrival times and whether the lights will still be on when you pull up. Then one tap hands the whole route to Google Maps.
The Dark Tower, Walked
All eight of Stephen King’s Dark Tower novels and the 2017 film, summarized in detail and walked in about 340 painted frames — from the man in black fleeing across the desert to the field of roses and back again. One page per book, a scene-by-scene walk of the film, a thirty-row table of what the film took from which book and what it changed, and the record of every adaptation that never got made, dated to this month. Every caption fact-checked against the books before a single frame was painted.
Whatcha Gonna Do with That Duck?, the Comic
Seth Godin’s six years of daily blog posts (2006–2012) retold in thirty-three panels in a hand-drawn margin-doodle style — ducks in a row, pick yourself, first ten, the lizard brain that gets louder the closer you get to shipping — filed under the book’s own eight sections. Then a hand-drawn-style map of everything else he’s written: twenty-odd books across forty years of projects, one territory per theme, the blog as the river running through it, and a loose framework for reading him without getting lost. Twenty minutes, cover to map.
The Righteous Mind, the Comic
Jonathan Haidt’s The Righteous Mind retold in thirty-one panels in a hand-drawn margin-doodle style — the elephant and its rider, the six moral taste buds, the hive switch that turns selfish primates into teams — then carried forward into his 2022 Tower-of-Babel essay on how social media handed everyone a dart gun. The drawings are the hook; the captions carry the argument. Fifteen minutes, cover to cover.
The Sleeper Awakes
H. G. Wells’s 1899 dystopia — a Victorian insomniac falls asleep in Cornwall and wakes in the London of 2100 to find he owns the world — rebuilt as an illustrated, narrated, read-along book. Wells’s public-domain text, read verbatim; 783 Franco-Belgian comic-album illustrations across 25 chapters; an 8-hour audiobook voiced by a fourteen-voice cast rendered on a home GPU; and every word lights up as it’s spoken, with fonts for dyslexic readers and your place remembered. Or sit back and watch all 25 chapters as read-along videos on YouTube.
Quitonomics
A friend’s blood-serum half-life spreadsheet, blown up into a full interactive quit calculator. Pick your poison — cigarettes, Geek Bars, chew, pouches, Nicorette gum or lozenges — set what it actually costs you, then drag the day slider: eight biomarkers decay out of your bloodstream (x = e-kt, hand-wobbled curves and all) while the money you stop burning unlocks a shelf of hand-drawn prizes, from a $12 hero burrito to a $6,000 hot tub. Nicotine is gone by tomorrow; NNAL takes 64 weeks; the hot tub is closer than you think.
The Places You Will Go & The People You Know
Two sibling websites about one idea: the people who love you would like to know where you are. The Places You Will Go turns one trip into a live, hand-drawn route card your family can follow from home — log a place, a photo and a few words as you go, and the page draws the line, knows where you are right now and counts down to what’s next ($25 a trip, paid once). The People You Know is a globe of your friends’ drawn faces at the cities they’re roughly in — no GPS, no addresses, ever (free, in alpha). Link the two and every trip you write draws itself onto your friends’ globe. One page explains both, side by side.
Dexter’s Cyber Security
Every security advisory of the day — read, ranked, and argued over by two robots. RedBot attacks, BlueBot defends, and Dexter (yes, that Dexter) referees the exchange, scores each story on how much you should care today, and awards the point. CISA advisories and CISO Series headline leads traced back to primary sources, each filed under four headings: do this right now, do this going forward, what we learned, will this matter later. It’s a reading order, not a risk register.
Dexter’s Papers
Every AI paper of the day — read, ranked, scored, and doodled by a fast-talking machine named Dexter. Each weeknight he speed-reads the day’s arXiv drop, scores every paper out of ten, and files it two ways: a Map where the tiles grow with the upvotes, and a Calendar with one episode per night. Filter down to the stellar (≥8) or wallow in the stinky (≤3), hover for the one-line synopsis, then click through for the full breakdown. Fresh papers land every weekday at 9:30 pm Pacific.
FestivalIMS
Incident management for festivals and regional burns — born in the dust as the SOAK ranger reporting system. Shift rosters, incident reports, a forensic audit trail, live metrics with a shift Gantt, and an offline Command Center for when the wifi isn’t a thing. Hosted and handled for $100 a festival, with a full data export — and deletion on request — when the dust settles.
The Electricity Chart
An homage to xkcd’s famous radiation dose chart, redrawn for electricity: five nested log-scale charts where every square is worth 1,000× the one before — from a single Google search up to world generation — with AI’s footprint highlighted at every scale. Kettles, dryers, Bitcoin, GPT-4 training runs, and the energy it took to make the chart itself.
Playable BYOK Games
Two browser games where the LLMs sit at the table: an AI Dungeon Master runs a haunted-mill dungeon crawl, and Friend Computer runs an Alpha Complex mission where your own AI teammates keep secrets from you. Bring your own API key — no accounts, no server, hidden plots the AI itself can't spoil.
Scriptorium
A short brief becomes an illustrated audiobook in about half an hour. Ten-stage pipeline: arc fan-out across premium models, internal judging panel, named element mixing, hand-painted illustration in a project-specific style, and a multi-voice ElevenLabs + Kokoro on a home GPU audiobook. Five SEVEN! books shipped: a children's fable, a middle-grade mystery, and a short cooking tutorial…+ a picture book, a YA tarot novel, a tech tutorial & H. G. Wells!
Purring, Popping, Flashing
A kawaii field guide to the silent protocol every conversation runs. Three little friends — Purr-chan, Pop-chan, and Flash-chan — walk you through the elevator hello, the meeting you got talked over in, and the argument that died ten minutes before anyone stopped yelling.
Choir Reports
One prompt. Every major LLM. Side-by-side, hand-scored, with the weird stuff called out. Twenty-three reports so far — D&D stat ladders, trolley problems, World Cup worst cases, peer review, and the new charisma study with its dial-driven codex.
Choir
Send one prompt to OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Grok, and more — all at once. Compare answers side-by-side with AI-judged scoring, latency charts, and a divergence heatmap. Your API keys stay local.
My Customer Portal
Per-client engagement logs, invoices, and a thread for work-in-flight. Magic-link sign-in — no passwords. Built for the handful of folks I’m actually building things for.
Codebackstory
Point at any git repo — get back a hand-drawn Sergio-Aragonés-style backstory page. Cartoons per phase, per-commit timeline, save-as-PDF friendly. Style picker for Sergio, Dilbert, xkcd, Far Side, or your own. Free during early access — ping me for a code.
Let's Talk Books
26 years of Audible listening — 2,829 audiobooks mapped as flowing streamgraphs over time. Watch genres rise and fall, see authors cluster across decades, and find the series I couldn't stop listening to.
Try it: Genre Flow · Author Flow · Series · Compare
AI Editorials
An AI reads the news every day, clusters stories into themes, and maps the connections between them. The result is a living graph — hundreds of nodes and edges — rendered as interactive visualizations you can explore, search, and scrub through time.
Tips for Building One-Shots
A three-document method for turning product ideas into something Claude Code can actually build — without session drift, scope creep, or three-week rewrites. SPEC.md, CLAUDE.md, FIRST_SESSION.md: what each is for, why the order matters, and a copy-pasteable scoping template.
Ranger Radio & Khaki
A small line of in-browser training toys for burn-event rangers. A real multi-user push-to-talk radio I built in a tent at Apogea 2025, plus a single-player shift sim with Claude on the dispatch console — 24 scripted scenarios, an LLM-graded scorecard.
Taroji
AI-powered tarot readings with Apple Intelligence, custom spreads, voice narration, and PDF export. Full 78-card deck with customizable art and meanings.
Garbage Pail Card Creator
A custom ChatGPT that generates original Garbage Pail Kids-style trading cards from any prompt.
Golf Around Me
Find nearby golf courses with hours, rates, weather, and directions. Premium features include score tracking and tee time reminders.
Buy Sean a Rockstar
If something I made helped you out, you can fuel the next project with a Rockstar energy drink.
