Current ventures

Three products, one operating lesson.

These are not portfolio mockups. They are the products I built after leaving FanDuel to test whether I could own product, engineering, AI workflows, marketing, and launch loops myself. Each venture below pairs the story, proof, stack, and actual product UI in one place.

FlagshipLive on iOS, Android to follow

Get Mentors

Founder and full-stack product engineer

The startup I have wanted to build since I was 21. You pick a board of 3 to 5 people you admire, ask what is on your mind, and see what each of them has said about it, side by side, with sources.

Rebuilt the product from the ground up after false starts around fundraising, market, B2B/B2C direction, and product shape.

Version 3.0 cut journeys, plans, and mentor chat to focus the app on one loop. Ask your board, compare answers, and follow up in a thread.

Built the sourcing rules into the product. Only words held from a named source appear in quotation marks, and everything else is labelled a summary.

Created a data-enrichment process that turns public source material from about 195 investors, founders, writers, and thinkers into structured, searchable profiles.

Owns mobile, web, backend, App Store and Google Play releases, positioning, marketing automation, and early GTM loops.

Stack and systems

React NativeTypeScriptLaravelPostgreSQLpgvectorApplied AISentry

Version 3.0 is on the App Store. The Android update is to follow

Website App Store Google Play

Interface samples

Get Mentors

Ask your board

Get Mentors

Where they agree and split

Get Mentors

Every card has a source

Get Mentors

Threads

Venture 02Live on iOS

LiveVault

Founder and product engineer

A focused listening product for the Grateful Dead archive, built with a senior UI/UX designer to turn thousands of tapes into a searchable, comparable, offline-ready experience with guided context built into discovery.

Built the Expo mobile product, web experience, archive proxy/API, playback flows, source comparison, offline downloads, and release pipeline.

Designed the domain model behind shows, sources, songs, transitions, listening events, personal vaults, and the Live Guide.

Live Guide is a daily episode with AI-generated narration around Archive recordings. It and My Trip are free with sign-in, and browsing and streaming need no account.

Shows how domain love can become product judgment: context, source quality, community trust, and archive structure matter as much as UI.

Stack and systems

ExpoReact NativeNext.jsArchive APIsAudio UXOffline DownloadsAI Guide

Available on the App Store

Website App Store

Interface samples

LiveVault

Find the show

LiveVault

Choose the tape

LiveVault

Live Guide

LiveVault

My Trip

Venture 03Live on iPhone and iPad

Our Little World

Founder and iOS engineer

A private home for your child's photos and videos, built for my wife, my baby, and families whose best moments get lost in the camera roll. It finds your child in the library you already have and gives each child their own world.

Rebuilt the app in native Swift and SwiftUI to work directly with the latest Xcode and Apple frameworks.

Face matching runs on the device with Apple Vision. Photos are not uploaded to be sorted, and face data never leaves the phone.

Ready for iPhone Duo. It runs on Duo today, and a fold-aware layout for the outer and inner displays is built and coming with the next SDK.

Built partner sharing, a nightly Tonight recap, voice notes, letters that open on a future birthday, Firsts, and a private family archive.

Stack and systems

Swift 6SwiftUIVisionPhotoKitSupabaseStoreKitiPhone Duo

Available on the App Store

Website App Store

Interface samples

Our Little World

A world for each child

Our Little World

Growing up

Our Little World

Your words and voice

Our Little World

Letters for later

The pattern is not idea collecting.

The pattern is that I can sit with a messy opportunity long enough to find the product, then use modern AI tooling to move from product architecture to production code, launch surface, and GTM feedback loops with a small-team pace.

View Proof of Work Talk With Jesse