Max Allaire

02 · Work · 16 projects · 6 live

Built to find out.

Prototypes and products from February to September 2026, each written up as what I built, what I learned, and where it cut against my own thesis. All directed, none hand-coded.

AHeadliners

The four that matter most for Solana: research, payments, tokenization, and a live market-making bot.

Fieldnotes home: the editorial front page with the latest explainers and outlook pieces
03 · Sep 2026Live

Fieldnotes

Editorial reference site on agentic payments, Solana liquidity and institutional adoption, with a day-gated data refresh and review flags.

  • React 19
  • TypeScript
  • Vinext
  • Cloudflare Workers
  • +3
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BShipped

Products with real users or a public demo. Each one taught me something about running a build.

The Daily home screen in the Instrument design system: near-black graphite, hairline rules, one lime signal colour
01 · Jul–Aug 2026Live

Marathon Training App

A single-user marathon training app with Whoop and Strava sync, a real backend with row-level security, and a public demo mode.

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Personal OS home: today's calendar, recovery, training load and accounts on one screen
02 · May–Jun 2026Demo

Personal OS

One dashboard for a life's data: calendar, sleep, training, health and money, pulled from five integrations into a single private view.

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Hearth's Today view for a house manager, rendered with placeholder data: schedule, open requests, tasks and the daily briefing
03 · May–Jun 2026Case study

Hearth

A production operations platform for a staffed household: calendar, tasks, requests, documents and a daily briefing, scoped by role.

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Leads pipeline view with AI-generated summaries
04 · Apr 2026Demo

Leads CRM

A focused pipeline CRM for small teams, replatformed from a crypto-specific lead-gen tool into a general product.

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Elo Solutions home: hero and the work grid linking to Hearth, Marathon, Personal OS and Leads CRM case studies
05 · May–Sep 2026Live

Elo Solutions

The site for my one-person studio: production software for founders, built by directing AI agents.

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GeoWatch conflict tracker: a world map with countries coloured by intensity and a multi-source headline feed
06 · Feb 2026Live

GeoWatch

A geopolitical conflict tracker and macro dashboard on an interactive world map. My first build with Claude Code.

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ETF Screener: a filterable, sortable table of BlackRock funds
07 · Feb 2026Live

ETF Screener

A screener for BlackRock ETFs: filter, sort and compare funds in one table.

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CExperiments

Weekend builds and design studies. Short write-ups, honest about what they are.