🏠 Calyn
It all started when I realized corporate tools don't work for my household — I was spending more time making them work for me than they were saving me.
I built my first app, Calyn, just to keep our family in sync across the patchwork of apps every household ends up juggling: the WhatsApp classroom group, school emails, Smore newsletters, SignUpGenius slots, birthday Evites, the spreadsheet for soccer carpools and Girl Scout meetups, local events buried in Facebook and Instagram, and our own family and friends scattered across email, WhatsApp and Messenger.
Now I use Calyn every day to keep my family in sync, without compromising our privacy to a big tech company.
🩺 Migraine Tracker
Then I turned that same instinct on myself. My paper notes kept getting lost. My kids displaced my diary. And on the good days, I'd simply forget to log — which meant the one thing I actually needed, the pattern behind my triggers, never had a chance to show up. Now: a quick voice note mid-migraine becomes a structured, doctor-ready record, with reminders built in so tracking happens every day, not just the bad ones.
🍃 Oku Journal
The migraine log taught me how much a small daily note can hold. Around the same time, I kept thinking about something from my MFA: in almost every class, the teacher gave us a prompt and we wrote for ten minutes. There wasn't much pressure attached, just start somewhere. And a surprising amount of that writing eventually became actual poems.
I also know that when I'm paying attention (walking outside, noticing something in nature, catching some small detail), writing comes more easily. So I started wondering whether AI could do for everyday journaling some of what my teachers did for me: not write for me, but help me get started writing something, anything.
That became Oku Journal.
From there, I started helping the people around me the same way — building small tools shaped around their little annoyances, not what off-the-shelf software assumed they needed.
See the tools I've built for others →
