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digital products.

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things I think could work better.

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26 Oct 2026 / Work / 3 min

Building UpnOut, an NFC alarm app, in a day

An alarm designed to get you out of bed: you stop it by getting up and scanning a tag. Why I built it, how one AI tool took it from idea to a working iOS app in a day, and why I plan to put it on the App Store.

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WorkHow to separate work and personal life on one iPhoneFocus can quiet a phone. It cannot turn one iPhone into two. A practical way to separate work and personal life with the tools Apple already includes.
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ProductivityHow to stay productive when your company won't let you install new appsMicrosoft To Do can be the one list. Outlook stays an inbox. A way to work inside Microsoft 365 when you cannot install anything else.

I designand builddigital products.

Building UpnOut, an NFC alarm app, in a day

I design
and build
digital products.