Austin, Texas

Nick Prokesch

Side projects

What I build on my own time. Some are shipping in the app stores; the rest are pre-AI experiments I learned from.

Feeling Mindful Labs

  • GoodParts

    iOS · Android

    A voice journal informed by Internal Family Systems. Talk through your day, and it maps the parts of you that keep showing up over weeks.

  • Simple Rituals

    iOS · Android

    A daily routine app that doesn’t keep score. It shows one thing: the next ritual for the part of the day you’re in.

  • CardioEngine

    iOS

    Heart-rate zone training built from your aerobic threshold instead of an age-based formula.

Burning Man

  • PlayaOS

    Web

    Free camp management for Burning Man theme camps: rosters, applications, dues, shelters, shifts, and kitchen operations in one branded portal.

  • Waffles & House

    Web · iOS · Android

    A Burning Man theme camp built on fresh waffles and house music. The site and companion apps take applications to join.

Pre-AI experiments

Written by hand, before AI coding tools.

  • lazycupid.rb

    A Ruby MRI command line app to hack online dating.

    github.com

  • lazycupid-rails

    An optimization of lazycupid to use Sidekiq jobs powered by a frontend interface.

    bitbucket.org

  • lazycrawler

    A plugin-based Electron app using in-memory background jobs to scrape data efficiently.

    no public link

  • Tinder Triage

    A Chrome extension to quickly triage matches and messages in the Tinder web app.

    gitlab.com

  • Bumble Next

    A user script to quickly triage matches and messages in the Bumble web app.

    github.com

  • lazyinstagram

    An experiment with Instagram's deprecated API and AWS image recognition to find friends by similar photo locations.

    github.com

  • lazylinkedin

    The fastest way to get a 24-hour ban and a cease and desist from LinkedIn.

    bitbucket.org

  • selfie-dump

    A SwiftUI app that builds an album of 9 random selfies from your camera roll for Instagram gallery posts.

    github.com

  • bar-crawl

    A Google Places scraper that ranks the most popular nighttime venues in a city by day and hour.

    no public link