Client build · Live
mostly mellow
A private matcha and espresso café in New York. Brand site, story and experience pages, an inquiry flow, and a members-only page. Hand-built, no template.
AstroGSAPTypeScript
Everything I’ve shipped.
Client builds, a macOS app, two versions of this site, and the projects I made to learn the stack. Every link goes to the real running thing, and to the source wherever the repo is public.
Ex-Amazon · Ex-The New York Times · Based in New York
001
Client work
Built for someone else, to their brief, and live in front of their customers.
002
Shipped and still running
Products and sites of my own that people other than me actually use.
Count Tongula's Eye Break
A Dracula-themed 20-20-20 app for macOS. Every 20 minutes the Count reminds you to look 20 feet away for 20 seconds. Lives in the menu bar. Free.
SwiftAppKitmacOS
count tongula's castle
The original cut of this site: gothic, moonlit, a cursor-parallax starfield and a moon that arcs as you scroll. Still running behind a door on the current one.
Next.jsCanvasSVG Filters
alextong.me
This site. Next.js and Tailwind, rebuilt in the open more times than I would like to admit. Count Tongula still runs the night wing.
ReactNext.jsTailwind CSSTypeScript
003
Earlier, built to learn
App Academy projects and weekend builds, from when I was working out how any of this fits together. They are all still up, and the source is public.
noteworthy
First full-stack app I ever shipped. Notes, rich text, MERN. Built it to learn the stack, and I still occasionally use it.
ReactNode.jsExpressMongoDB
the maze
Procedural maze generator that draws itself, then solves itself. Pure Canvas, no libraries. Built it to figure out how recursion actually feels.
JavaScriptHTML Canvas
the kollectiv
Slack-but-for-creative-collabs. Group project at App Academy. The first thing I built that other people actually used.
ReactNode.jsExpressMongoDB
constellations
Click anywhere on the night sky and watch a constellation draw itself. Pure Canvas. Weekend project.
JavaScriptHTML Canvas
barGain
App Academy capstone. Compares prices across sites while you shop. The first thing I shipped end-to-end.
ReactNode.jsExpressPostgreSQL
road to rock
Audio playground for messing with synth params in the browser. Built it to learn the Web Audio API.
JavaScriptWeb Audio API
Want one of these for yourself?
Sites and applications, built the way the client work above was. Tell me what you have in mind and I will tell you what it takes.