Startups & projects

*in no particular order

HomeTwin/HomeFolder/Holder

Imagine if all the information connected to a property was in one place online. Its appliances, floorplans and permissions. Like Google Drive for the home, a powerful sidecar to the Land Registry, homeowners and professionals can access and collaborate, reinforced by token-incentive mechanisms.

Sign up for the beta platform here

Elisium

In 2015-2016, I attempted to build an early view of what in 2022 have become NFTs and the booming art market. Some bits I saw coming, and most I did not.

 Early pitch deck  👀

Between 2016-2018 I occasionally did introductory presentations on Blockchain technologies (now more favourably known as Web3) to non-technical audiences. The below was for a class of students at Ada, the National College for Digital Skills ada.ac.uk.

Byron Sports

What if every swing, shot, or hit you ever made was tracked, analysed and you were given gentle nudges to make gradual improvement to your performance - and you didn’t need to be an elite sportsperson to afford it. That’s what we tried to build in 2012-2013. With interest from a top golfing retailer, production-ready prototype, patent application ready for submission, we made a good start.

Grandma’s Secret Recipe

In less than a decade, the recipes that were once passed down between the generations will be confined to books and Jamie Oliver TV shows. We wanted to capture the recipes and the stories behind them from grandmas (and grandpas). It was also an opportunity/excuse to work with the greatest creative mind of our generation, Eric San Giorgi (aka Mr Superdik). Below are the two short pilot episodes we made. Buon Appetito.

Official Uni Book Sale

Given that most courses reused the same textbooks year after year, I was shocked that students were encouraged to buy the latest editions, or search further afield than their own campus for lightly used copies. I setup the university’s first textbook exchange, and enabled the Students’ Union to run the platform from the following year.

Not my finest animation work, but you get the idea:

Apple Pie

All aged 16, a small group of us, with the help of some classmates created a suite of language learning software for school students - scratch your own itch, as the saying goes. I could see the coming importance of mobile apps (pre-iPhone)/I wanted to use it whilst commuting to school. We partnered with a Sony distributor to put our apps onto the Sony PSP and won some awards.