ChanceStride
A fitness platform that turns dice, cards, sports results, and live theme-park waits into a distance or time to walk, run, ride, or hike.
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Curiosity turned into working things.
I build outside my professional roles to explore useful problems, learn new tools, and understand the decisions required to move from an idea to a working product.
These are independent projects, not employer work or claims of large commercial scale. Their value is in the product thinking, implementation, publishing, and persistence behind them.
The through line
Find a useful problem. Make a first version. Learn from the people it is for. Keep improving.
ProductsPublishingCommunityExperiments
Current projects
Ideas in motion.
These projects combine product judgment, hands-on implementation, structured content, and a willingness to learn by shipping.
FINISHER GALLERYIn active development
Finisher Gallery
A running-focused product currently being built, with more details to come as it moves closer to launch.
finishergallery.comComing soon FOOD GRADES NYCIn active development
Food Grades NYC
A new food-grades project for New York City that is currently in active development.
foodgradesnyc.comComing soonLI Run Finder
A runner-focused race directory for Long Island and New York City, designed around useful details such as distance, surface, stroller rules, bag check, and race-day features.
Visit projectDadJogger
A long-running publication about running, fatherhood, fitness, finance, and everyday life, supported by practical calculators, generators, and race-day resources.
Visit projectThe builder's archive
Not every project needs to become a company to matter.
Some became useful products. Others taught me about customers, content, ecommerce, community, or the discipline of shipping.
2011
Rent-A-Spot
A school project developed into a working system for reserving guaranteed parking through location selection, bidding, and payment, with a portion supporting Kiva.
View the archivePublishing project
GrowingWallet
A practical money-saving publication spanning personal finance, careers, frugal living, and deals. The archive credits me with more than 100 posts.
View the archiveTRAININGTrain. Learn. Play.
2008–2014
AST Soccer
My father founded the family-run soccer organization. I led training, camps, and programs, then later revamped its website to better present services, curriculum, content, and registration paths.
View the 2014 redesign2010
WAK Apparel
An early ecommerce experiment with a working product catalog, cart, checkout, promotions, newsletter, and wholesale experience.
View the archiveWhat the work demonstrates
Products teach what plans cannot.
Independent building keeps me close to users, tradeoffs, content, data, and the details of implementation. It also reinforces a useful habit: make the idea tangible, learn from what happens, and improve the next version.