Because I needed it.
The best brief is your own frustration.
- Born from a real, everyday need
- Tested on myself before anyone else
- Used every week, not just shipped
For example: Orchard
I build the apps
I wish existed.
By day I build banking software. On free evenings, for the love of it, I build my own apps: for brewers, for hiring teams, for anyone running a quiz, and for my own apple orchard. Every one of them is live, and none of them is a demo.
Bugs rarely make it into my apps. Most of them end up here instead.
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Why they existThree reasons
Three reasons
an app gets built.
Because nobody had solved it.
AI opened doors that were shut a year ago.
- Problems with no good answer yet
- Ideas that only work now
- Built and live in weeks, not years
For example: Lomelian
Because it could be done better.
Plenty of apps exist. Plenty are pricey, dated, or both.
- Same job, done properly
- Modern, fast and multilingual
- Often free, always maintained
Recent public appsNew problems.
New problems.
Better answers.
Just the latest few I’ve made public. Four products, one engineer, all in real use, and every one of them taught me something.
goHoot
Live quizzes and polls for classrooms, meetings and events, with real-time leaderboards. Free to use.
Why it existsThe popular live-quiz tools lock the good parts behind a subscription. goHoot does the same job, live leaderboards included, and gives it away.
- Quiz
- & polls
- Live
- leaderboards
- Free
- to use
BrewDozer
The free brewing app for homebrewers and small breweries. It takes a recipe from grain bill to glass.
Why it existsBrewing software is expensive, dated, or both, and most brewers still glue it together with spreadsheets. BrewDozer covers the whole brew in one modern app, for free.
- 25
- calculators
- 4
- languages
- €0
- forever
Lomelian
Technical hiring without the take-home test. See how a candidate works, not just what they hand in.
Why it existsThe take-home test was built for a world that is gone. When any candidate can paste a task into AI, the hand-in tells you nothing. Lomelian shows how someone actually works.
- 9
- task types
- 150
- ready-made tasks
- 7
- tech stacks
Orchard
A planting plan for an apple orchard. Rows, varieties, materials and a field-work journal in one place.
Why it existsMy own. An orchard is a long plan made of small decisions, and paper wasn’t keeping up. Now the plan, the materials and every day in the field live in one place.
- Rows
- & varieties
- Materials
- list
- Journal
- field work
The night shiftBy day, Bigbank.
By day, Bigbank.
By night, Bugbank.
I’m Aare. I’ve been building for the web since 2009, first as a webmaster, then at Telia, RMIT and Coop Pank, and now as a software engineer at Bigbank.
Bugbank is one of my hobbies, and a serious one. Building fully working apps with AI has changed faster than anything I’ve seen in all my years on the web, and every week brings something new to learn. The bugs that turn up now and then teach me fastest of all. What I learn here ends up in my day job the next morning.
Not every night is a coding night, though. There are two wonderful sons, an apple orchard, a battle bot in the making, the Estonian Defence League, brewing, photography, and a game of Age of Empires IV when I can. Some weeks there’s no time for code at all, and the ideas simply wait their turn.
- Built to banking standardsMore than fifteen years on the web, the last five in banking. Tests, monitoring and maintenance are not extras, even on a hobby project, and I review every line AI writes. The whole matters, but the details matter most.
- A craft that never stands stillHow apps get built with AI changes almost weekly. Every new project is a chance to learn something, try it for real, and bring it back to work.
- New problems, better answersSome apps come from my own life. Others tackle problems that had no good answer before, or do what existing tools do, properly.
On a good night
- The Bigbank laptop closes.
- The Bugbank laptop opens.
- Just one more prompt.
- It works. Ship it.
- Back at Bigbank, a little wiser.
Finds
Worth your time.
Articles, videos and websites I came across lately, usually well past midnight.
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...catchy beats to start a weekend :)
Over to youLet’s talk. Over coffee,
Let’s talk. Over coffee,
or a craft beer.
Tell me what’s broken, missing, or ten times harder than it should be. The best apps usually start as a complaint. Coffee in Tallinn, or a call from anywhere.
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