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๐Ÿ‘‹ Hi, I'm Steve

๐Ÿ“ San Francisco | ๐Ÿค– Founder at Dottie AI | ๐Ÿ“š O'Reilly Author

X GitHub JavaScript Swift React Node.js Claude CLI iOS

Shipping apps for 15+ years โ€” 100+ apps, 5M+ downloads. Objc/Swift for 10+ years, now building AI-powered tools with JS.

Projects

  • ๐ŸŽ™๏ธ Dottie โ€“ Agent that controls your Mac, Voice-first, powered by local AI. 100% Free
  • ๐Ÿค– DotBot - AI agent engine, ultra-lean 11k LOC, 47 tools, 0 dependencies
  • ๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธ DotOS โ€“ Generative operating system
  • ๐Ÿ›น Skateboard - React Boilerplate with Tailwind, Shadcn/ui, Stripe, Vite
  • ๐Ÿ“ฑ Silo - Private AI assistant for iOS, fully on-device
  • ๐Ÿ”ฎ Onyx โ€“ ๐• toolkit โ€” Watch Your X Feed, QR code wallpapers, and algo education
    • ๐ŸŽฏ xQR - Lock Screen QR to your ๐• profile -- great for meetups
    • ๐Ÿ“บ x-tv - Watch your ๐• feed on the big screen
  • โœ‚๏ธ Clipper โ€“ Instant video clips โ€” clip, transcription, subtitles
  • ๐Ÿฅ Care Companion โ€“ Guide patients through their care journey
  • ๐Ÿš‘ Care Marketplace โ€“ Compare healthcare prices
  • ๐Ÿท Piglet โ€“ Baby tracking with charts and data visualization
  • โš“ Anchor โ€“ Email marketing made simple
  • ๐Ÿ›๏ธ Ginza โ€“ Your autonomous personal shopper
  • ๐Ÿ“ˆ Roundtable โ€“ Startup investment game
  • ๐ŸŽ“ AppSchool โ€“ Learn to make apps, 500+ students taught
  • ๐Ÿ’ผ Consulting โ€“ My work for BMW, Amazon, Coca-Cola, MGM, and the NBA
  • ๐Ÿ”ญ Spyglass - App Store screenshots and metadata manager
  • ๐Ÿ—บ๏ธ Cartographer - create architecture diagrams agent skill
  • ๐Ÿšข Skipper - Manage a team of coding agents
  • โš“ Ahoy - Auto-focus when coding agent needs input
  • ๐Ÿค– Grok CLI - Grok CLI coding assistant
  • ๐ŸŒ v0 Proxy - Use v0's API with Claude Code
  • ๐Ÿ” Domain-Checker - Private domain availability tool โ€” no tracking, no logs
  • ๐ŸŽฎ LoSV - Legend of Silicon Valley โ€” Zelda-style startup adventure game
  • โฑ๏ธ Clockwork - Menubar time tracker for macOS
  • โšพ๏ธ Scorecard - Keep score at baseball games
  • ๐Ÿคน Skills - Agent Skills for Claude and other LLMs
  • ๐Ÿ“ System Prompts - Prompts for writing code with LLMs, Deno, Vite, React 19+
  • ๐Ÿ”— Mongo MCP - Connect LLMs to MongoDB
  • ๐Ÿ• Kiosk - Costco Food Court Kiosk
  • ๐ŸŽ—๏ธ HIVAware - Find HIV testing sites and get answers -- HIVAware.org
  • โค๏ธ BeatHF - Monitoring for Congestive Heart Failure Patients - Stanford Bio Buildathon
  • ๐Ÿ‘‰ More apps
Legacy iOS & Ruby Apps
  • ๐Ÿ“ฐ HNReaderPlus - Simple Hacker News reader for iOS
  • ๐ŸŽฏ GetFocused - Block distracting websites and get focused
  • ๐Ÿ“ธ Shoebox - Simple photo sharing app
  • ๐ŸŽฒ TabooPlus - What Word? โ€” A simple Taboo game for iOS
  • ๐ŸŽณ Skeeball-Scorer - Simple skeeball scoring app
  • ๐Ÿ“ SDNoteTaker - Simple markdown site for note taking
  • ๐Ÿ—๏ธ SDScaffoldKit - Scaffolding for Core Data models
  • โ˜๏ธ SDScaffoldSync - Create a cloud syncing mobile app in 3 minutes
  • ๐Ÿ” SDLoginKit - Login/Sign-Up ViewControllers for custom backends
  • ๐Ÿงฐ SDKit - Collection of useful iOS classes
  • ๐ŸŒ localizable.string - Localization string management
  • ๐Ÿ“ก SDPinger - Keep your free Heroku dynos alive
  • ๐Ÿ“‹ SDBootstrapTemplates - Bootstrap starter templates
  • ๐Ÿƒ RunLog - Running log built with Ruby
  • ๐Ÿƒ RunLog iOS - Running log for iOS
  • ๐Ÿ“Š SDStockKit - Stock market data kit
  • ๐Ÿ–ผ๏ธ AppStoreGallery - App Store screenshot gallery

What I'm Doing

  • Building AI tools - Exploring how LLMs change everything about app development
  • Teaching - Helping developers ship their first apps
  • Writing - Author of Introducing iOS: Swift Programming from Idea to App Store
  • Community - Organizing NSMeetup, SF's largest iOS meetup (4,000+ members)

Recognition

  • O'Reilly Author - Introducing iOS โ€” learn to make apps with zero experience
  • Featured Developer - 100+ apps, 5M+ downloads, featured by Apple
  • Fortune 500 clients - Amazon, BMW, Coca-Cola, MGM, NBA, Pandora, Rolls Royce, Salesforce
  • AppSchool Founder - Created AppSchool.com to teach 500+ students
  • NSMeetup Organizer - San Francisco's largest iOS meetup (4,000+ members)
  • UC Berkeley Guest Lecturer - iOS DeCal judge and mentor
  • Mentor - Teaches programming and career skills to underprivileged students
  • Public Speaker - "Idea to App Store", "Zero to Hero", "Project Bailout Stories"
  • Global Health Advocate - Built HIVAware app to locate testing sites and provide HIV/STD education

Media

Philosophy

"Ship it." - I build apps that solve real problems. 100+ shipped and counting.

Random Facts

  • Never had a cup of coffee
  • Ran a 4:15 mile โ€” captain of collegiate cross country and track
  • FIRST Robotics national runner-up
  • 10,000+ lines of open-source code contributed
  • Top 1% of Nirvana listeners

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  1. silo silo Public

    a private ai assistant for iOS. Chat with LLMs with no tracking or censorship. Local and completely on-device, no internet required.

    C++ 5 1

  2. skateboard skateboard Public

    a boilerplate with react, tailwindcss, shadcn/ui, stripe, vite, and javascript

    JavaScript 3

  3. grok-cli grok-cli Public

    grok cli coding assistant

    TypeScript 11 3

  4. system-prompts system-prompts Public

    prompts for writing code with LLMs, deno, vite, react 19+, and tailwind v4+