I dug through the archives recently — posts from 2010 about mounting remote NFS shares, writing Linux aliases, comparing Joomla vs Concrete5, messing with shell behavior. Those were the warm-ups.
Fast forward to now: I’m not just hacking together tools. I’m making stuff that used to live entirely in thought experiments. I’m building mobile apps and websites and AI features that solve real problems — especially in youth sports. Because the idea of watching your kid practice and wondering if there was a tool to help, a better way to analyze performance, mattered to me enough that I built it.
Here’s what’s different:
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PitchGrid — our flagship mobile app (free) that lets athletes, parents, and coaches sync up multiple videos and do frame-by-frame analysis, zoom/crop, real-time feedback, sharing, exporting. Things I never tried doing before because it seemed way too big.
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Using AI not for gimmickry, but to speed up dev, to solve things I used to hack around — like building web tools to help coaches analyze data to make them better leaders.
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Opening doors: I can now build tools that matter in youth sports (where budgets are tight, where coaches aren’t all tech-wizards) and still ship something solid.
So this new place — Proliferaite.com — is where all that meets. I am excited for what the future holds, because for the first time in my life it is only bound by my imagination.
