100 Built Projects, Shipped in Public

"Nobody was going to give me that title. I had to earn it."

The Pledge

About three months ago I made it public: I'm becoming a design engineer by building and shipping 100 real projects. Not mockups. Not concepts. Designed, built, deployed. #DesignEngineeringThe100.

I have a CS degree and years of product design work, and for most of that time someone else shipped what I designed. This is me closing the loop. Let the craft do the talking.

Shipped So Far

Track & Tread

Project #1: a fitness apparel landing page, designed and built from scratch. Live at trackandtread.netlify.app. 1 down. 99 to go.

#1 Top Author on 21st.dev

21st.dev is the registry where design engineers publish React components. I'm currently its #1 Top Author with 4 components and 695 bookmarks, outranking authors with 20+ components. A logo section, a 3D card stack in pure CSS, a cursor highlight effect. Built them because I wanted to see if I could.

ThumbGen

A local-first image crop and compress tool that runs 100% in the browser. No uploads, maximum privacy, open source.

Grok, Reimagined

An experiment: redesigning Grok's landing page to see how far I could push it.

The Point

Most of the 100 are still ahead. That's not a caveat. That's the project. Every entry is a receipt that the wall between designing software and building it is optional. This site is one of the receipts too.