30 years of coding, and the project I have the best memories of wasn't even a big deal from a technical perspective. Today, it would be generated by AI and forgotten. But in 2002, ordering pizza online was a new thing. Being able to click the ingredients you wanted, having the pizza on-screen change its appearance to show those ingredients, even splitting the pizza in half to show different toppings on each half? And works on all browsers? in 2002? That was new.

It was still just a 1-2 hour project as I recall, part of a larger project when we were re-doing the Dominos web site. And one of the other guys in the office helped me on it, so it was not even a solo effort.

But what made it cool was for a decade or so, I was able to tell people that if they had ever ordered pizza online, odds are they have seen and used my work.

Love this question. My proudest project is a small but surprisingly useful CLI tool that automatically finds and closes stale Jira tickets for my team. Nothing flashy, but it’s saved us hours of manual tracking and actually got picked up by a couple of other teams.

I have two!

One is a webapp I wrote almost 20 years ago for my dad and it's still being used today. It runs on IIS and built with asp classic and vanilla html/css/js (no frameworks back then). They use it to track orders and invoices to suppliers/vendors and ensure what they receive is what they ordered.

The other, an electron-type app that saves people hundreds of hours per month by letting them bypass some bad UIs and interact with external services directly. It's been running for 6 years, only had to make very few updates, and it's the one thing I don't need monitoring for - not only it's been quite stable, I get called immediately if it breaks (eg when external services change their endpoints).

In 2023, we have seen a lot of AI directories popping up and lot of founders (including me) manually submitting their products on these platforms to gain traffic and foundational backlinks.

So we have launched Boringlaunch, a submission service that helps grow your online presence by submitting your product to 100+ platforms. It's perfect for new products that need more visibility and backlinks to improve their SEO and search rankings.

Our customers love it because it saves them from doing boring tasks and they can focus on real marketing.

Here is the website link: https://www.boringlaunch.com/

I created OSINTBuddy (https://github.com/osintbuddy/osintbuddy), this project allowed me to break into the software industry despite being a highschool dropout and it's managed to gain a tiny bit of popularity in some niche OSINT communities, this still surprises me haha.

I've been in the process of rewriting/refactoring the codebase these past few months to use Rust instead of Python and Vite instead of create-react-app. OSINTBuddy is a web based version of something like Maltego (https://maltego.com/). I started the project years ago and its currently my main side project although I have a few other ideas I plan to start building starting next year.