lil bit about me. handwritten

anacrusis

we make apps · anacrusis.cc

anacrusis is the legal entity that owns grooves, and i'll prob develop more apps in the future tbh, so it'll be under anacrusis, kinda like how meta owns instagram and facebook. my friend said the name sucked idk i like it lol

grooves

letterboxd for music · joingrooves.app

letterboxd for music app; it isn't actually vibecoded. i spent a good while learning react native expo. 30K+ users, 75K social media followers, 200M social media views, artists like SZA and Pusha T engaging.

album posters store

music poster e-commerce · $110,000 in sales

i'm a graphic designer, and i was broke asf in late 4th year so i started this and grew to to 21K instagram/tiktok followers organically. peaked at $15k/month. closed to focus on grooves. financed the institute of education fees this money. i spent the rest on pandabuy lol

computer science & business

trinity college dublin

computer science degree means straight to the homeless shelter, but so does a business degree; since i'm doing both, they cancel out, so i'll be just fine (i think).

i also joined a bunch of societies in tcd, the phil was the best

leaving certificate

institute of education, dublin

got 613 points (98% in english which i will forever be proud of. this is my personal website so i'm allowed to brag. i love you tracey k smith)

junior certificate

stepaside educate together secondary school

made so much fond memories here and went to italy

rethrift

hackathon winner

hackathon where we connected fast fashion buyers with thrift alternatives.. 2x hackathon winner. we won like 6k woooo yay

claude hackathon healthpilot ai

we lost

built in ~3 hours with a team of four. there was this one dude in our team who decided he was going to do something else entirely, so when we went up to present he was insistent to show what HE made. kinda funny lol, he didn't tag me in his linkedin post. aura loss

all ireland programming olympiad (aipo)

top 10 national finalist

reached the top 10 in ireland's national programming olympiad. spent hours developing algorithms for practice. then there was this period where i was like 'why am i in this room developing meaningless algorithms?'. i lowkenuinely had an existential crisis after this and then dropped out of the competition to focus on business and graphic design. best decision ever

founder

anacrusis

anacrusis is the legal entity that owns grooves, and i'll prob develop more apps in the future tbh, so itll be under anacrusis, kinda like how meta owns instagram and facebook. my friend said the name sucked idk i like it lol

founder

grooves

letterboxd for music app; it isn't actually vibecoded. i spent a good while learning react native expo. 30K+ users, 75K social media followers, 200M social media views, artists like SZA and Pusha T engaging.

founder

album posters store

im a graphic designer, and i was broke asf in late 4th year so i started this and grew to to 21K instagram/tiktok followers organically. peaked at $15k/month. closed to focus on grooves. financed the institute of education fees this money. i spent the rest on pandabuy lol

software engineer intern

integration xperts

i got this internship through nepotism (my dad's friend) and did this internship for 3 months. typed stuff on a keyboard ig

programming tutor

self-employed

yeah so there was this period in third year where i was DESPERATE for money so i spent a few months tutoring programming to 7-11 y/o kids. made a bunch of money which i spent on meta ads. SO DO NOT use meta ads LIKE EVER!! market organically and foster a lovely community :)