Sean Makes Stuff
Simple, useful apps for Apple platforms and Chrome. Built by one person who just likes making things.
Read & watch
Novels, series walks, comics, picture books and field guides now live together on one bookshelf.
The Bookshelf
Every reading thing on the site, in one bookcase with five shelves: novels with narrated audiobooks (H. G. Wells’s The Sleeper Awakes among them), series walks that summarize and paint whole book series (The Dark Tower, Elemental Blessings, Play to Live), comics (Seth Godin’s Duck, a Babylon 5 and a Twilight Zone episode), picture books, and tutorials & field guides. Every book is labeled with what AI wrote, drew and voiced.
Handy tools 3
Small web apps for real life: a Halloween night out, quitting nicotine, and letting the people who love you follow along on a trip.
Haunt Hopper
Every Halloween yard haunt and light show in Washington, Oregon and southern BC that’s posted this season, pulled off the Pacific NW Christmas Lights map and rewritten so the good part is on the card: what you’ll actually see, which nights the fog and animatronics run, and what to tune the car radio to. Pick a night and it hides whatever’s dark; add stops and it works out the drive, your arrival times and whether the lights will still be on when you pull up. Then one tap hands the whole route to Google Maps.
Quitonomics
A friend’s blood-serum half-life spreadsheet, blown up into a full interactive quit calculator. Pick your poison — cigarettes, Geek Bars, chew, pouches, Nicorette gum or lozenges — set what it actually costs you, then drag the day slider: eight biomarkers decay out of your bloodstream (x = e-kt, hand-wobbled curves and all) while the money you stop burning unlocks a shelf of hand-drawn prizes, from a $12 hero burrito to a $6,000 hot tub. Nicotine is gone by tomorrow; NNAL takes 64 weeks; the hot tub is closer than you think.
The Places You Will Go & The People You Know
Two sibling websites about one idea: the people who love you would like to know where you are. The Places You Will Go turns one trip into a live, hand-drawn route card your family can follow from home — log a place, a photo and a few words as you go, and the page draws the line, knows where you are right now and counts down to what’s next ($25 a trip, paid once). The People You Know is a globe of your friends’ drawn faces at the cities they’re roughly in — no GPS, no addresses, ever (free, in alpha). Link the two and every trip you write draws itself onto your friends’ globe. One page explains both, side by side.
New every night 2
Dexter reads the day’s AI papers and security advisories, scores every one, and posts a fresh episode each night.
Dexter’s Cyber Security
Every security advisory of the day — read, ranked, and argued over by two robots. RedBot attacks, BlueBot defends, and Dexter (yes, that Dexter) referees the exchange, scores each story on how much you should care today, and awards the point. CISA advisories and CISO Series headline leads traced back to primary sources, each filed under four headings: do this right now, do this going forward, what we learned, will this matter later. It’s a reading order, not a risk register.
Dexter’s Papers
Every AI paper of the day — read, ranked, scored, and doodled by a fast-talking machine named Dexter. Each weeknight he speed-reads the day’s arXiv drop, scores every paper out of ten, and files it two ways: a Map where the tiles grow with the upvotes, and a Calendar with one episode per night. Filter down to the stellar (≥8) or wallow in the stinky (≤3), hover for the one-line synopsis, then click through for the full breakdown. Fresh papers land every weekday at 9:30 pm Pacific.
Games & toys 3
Browser games where the LLMs sit at the table, a ranger shift sim, and a trading-card machine.
Playable BYOK Games
Two browser games where the LLMs sit at the table: an AI Dungeon Master runs a haunted-mill dungeon crawl, and Friend Computer runs an Alpha Complex mission where your own AI teammates keep secrets from you. Bring your own API key — no accounts, no server, hidden plots the AI itself can't spoil.
Ranger Radio & Khaki
A small line of in-browser training toys for burn-event rangers. A real multi-user push-to-talk radio I built in a tent at Apogea 2025, plus a single-player shift sim with Claude on the dispatch console — 24 scripted scenarios, an LLM-graded scorecard.
Garbage Pail Card Creator
A custom ChatGPT that generates original Garbage Pail Kids-style trading cards from any prompt.
Charts & maps 3
Big piles of data, drawn so you can poke at them.
The Electricity Chart
An homage to xkcd’s famous radiation dose chart, redrawn for electricity: five nested log-scale charts where every square is worth 1,000× the one before — from a single Google search up to world generation — with AI’s footprint highlighted at every scale. Kettles, dryers, Bitcoin, GPT-4 training runs, and the energy it took to make the chart itself.
Let's Talk Books
26 years of Audible listening — 2,829 audiobooks mapped as flowing streamgraphs over time. Watch genres rise and fall, see authors cluster across decades, and find the series I couldn't stop listening to.
Try it: Genre Flow · Author Flow · Series · Compare
AI Editorials
An AI reads the news every day, clusters stories into themes, and maps the connections between them. The result is a living graph — hundreds of nodes and edges — rendered as interactive visualizations you can explore, search, and scrub through time.
The AI workbench 4
How the rest of this gets made: a book pipeline, one prompt sent to every model at once, the reports that come out of it, and the method behind the one-shots.
Scriptorium
A short brief becomes an illustrated audiobook in about half an hour. Ten-stage pipeline: arc fan-out across premium models, internal judging panel, named element mixing, hand-painted illustration in a project-specific style, and a multi-voice ElevenLabs + Kokoro on a home GPU audiobook. Five SEVEN! books shipped: a children's fable, a middle-grade mystery, and a short cooking tutorial…+ a picture book, a YA tarot novel, a tech tutorial & H. G. Wells!
Choir Reports
One prompt. Every major LLM. Side-by-side, hand-scored, with the weird stuff called out. Twenty-three reports so far — D&D stat ladders, trolley problems, World Cup worst cases, peer review, and the new charisma study with its dial-driven codex.
Choir
Send one prompt to OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Grok, and more — all at once. Compare answers side-by-side with AI-judged scoring, latency charts, and a divergence heatmap. Your API keys stay local.
Tips for Building One-Shots
A three-document method for turning product ideas into something Claude Code can actually build — without session drift, scope creep, or three-week rewrites. SPEC.md, CLAUDE.md, FIRST_SESSION.md: what each is for, why the order matters, and a copy-pasteable scoping template.
Hosted for you 3
Things I run for other people — festivals, git repos, and clients.
FestivalIMS
Incident management for festivals and regional burns — born in the dust as the SOAK ranger reporting system. Shift rosters, incident reports, a forensic audit trail, live metrics with a shift Gantt, and an offline Command Center for when the wifi isn’t a thing. Hosted and handled for $100 a festival, with a full data export — and deletion on request — when the dust settles.
Codebackstory
Point at any git repo — get back a hand-drawn Sergio-Aragonés-style backstory page. Cartoons per phase, per-commit timeline, save-as-PDF friendly. Style picker for Sergio, Dilbert, xkcd, Far Side, or your own. Free during early access — ping me for a code.
My Customer Portal
Per-client engagement logs, invoices, and a thread for work-in-flight. Magic-link sign-in — no passwords. Built for the handful of folks I’m actually building things for.
Phone apps 2
iOS apps in the App Store.
Taroji
AI-powered tarot readings with Apple Intelligence, custom spreads, voice narration, and PDF export. Full 78-card deck with customizable art and meanings.
Golf Around Me
Find nearby golf courses with hours, rates, weather, and directions. Premium features include score tracking and tee time reminders.
Buy Sean a Rockstar
If something I made helped you out, you can fuel the next project with a Rockstar energy drink.
