field notes · est. 2024
Long-form notes on building small AI tools solo — what shipped, what broke, and what I learned along the way.
10 entries
Discover how AI is transforming personal stories into songs. Learn how AI music tools make personalized creativity possible without traditional production skills.
Why do simple web tools often grow faster than complex software? Lessons learned from building internet utilities, AI tools, and focused products used by real people.
Learn how multimodal AI combines text, images, audio, and video to streamline creative workflows, accelerate localization, and transform content production across industries.
Explore why manga translation is a uniquely difficult multimodal AI challenge involving OCR, computer vision, reading order, image inpainting, and localization
My product development philosophy is simple: identify a massive workflow bottleneck, engineering a highly optimized software solution, and ship it fast. For 3D…
Big update for AI Manga Translator! We’ve bumped the free trial to 5 pages and added universal format support for JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, PDF, EPUB, CBZ, and ZIP.
AI Manga Translator introduces new translation modes to improve OCR accuracy, layout handling, and manga reading experience across different page types.
After 3 months of user feedback, we learned that manga translation isn't just about OCR and AI. Here's how real users changed our product roadmap and inspired our Chrome extension.
Learn why we built AI Ad Generator, what we discovered about creative workflows, and how AI is helping small businesses create ads faster.
The story behind building AI Video Translator and why we believe multilingual video content is one of the biggest opportunities for creators in the AI era.
