Identity-document decryption API and offline SDK for South African and Namibian driver's licences, vehicle disks, firearm licences, and ID cards: decodes the PDF417 barcode to structured JSON, including the embedded headshot, for authenticity and KYC checks. Sold B2B to fleet, security, and fuel integrators under prepaid and tiered postpaid pricing or a per-app offline Android library. Laravel/PHP backend with a Vue admin and native Android (AAR), iOS, and .NET decoders, plus an OpenAI vision endpoint and a fuel-slip OCR pipeline.
Vending and prepaid distribution platform processing millions of transactions per month, with point-of-sale installations across Southern Africa. Co-founded and exited in 2013.
AI calorie and macro tracker: log a meal by photo and get instant estimates from Google Gemini, alongside water, weight, streaks, and a guilt-free framing. Flutter app on a Firebase backend (Auth, Firestore, Cloud Functions) with RevenueCat subscriptions, Apple HealthKit and Android Health Connect sync, an "Ask VitaCal" AI coach, and an OAuth-secured MCP server for querying personal health data from Claude or any MCP client.
Voice journal and mood tracker: a one-minute evening check-in transcribed on the phone (the audio never leaves the device), turned by Google Gemini into a mood score, tags and summary, and set against sleep, HRV, resting heart rate, steps and workouts from Apple Health or Health Connect. Flutter app on Firebase with RevenueCat subscriptions, in 21 languages including right-to-left Arabic.
Multi-tenant invoicing and billing SaaS for freelancers and small businesses: clients, projects, time tracking, quotes, recurring invoices, tax reports, and client card payments via Stripe Connect. Laravel and PostgreSQL API with a React 19 and TypeScript SPA, standards-based e-invoicing (ZUGFeRD/Factur-X and UBL/Peppol), and a published PHP SDK for programmatic invoicing.
SaaS for South African flight schools that tracks student-pilot licensing progress, logbook hours, instructor endorsements, and checkride readiness against SACAA minimum-hour rules across PPL, CPL, IR, ME, and more. Multi-tenant, school-scoped Laravel and Filament platform with separate instructor and student panels, an eligibility engine, and role-based access. Built as a licensed pilot.
Location-based gig-work marketplace connecting casual labourers with short-term jobs in South Africa, matching on skills, availability, and geolocation. Flutter apps (iOS and Android) on a Node.js Fastify backend with PostgreSQL and Drizzle ORM, OTP auth, FacePhi facial-recognition verification, in-app messaging, PayFast payments, and subscription billing.
Industrial edge-to-cloud platform that retrofits legacy fuel and fluid dispensing equipment to authorise, meter, and reconcile every dispense in real time, curbing shrinkage at manned and unmanned sites. Offline-first Go edge gateway on Raspberry Pi speaking Modbus TCP to on-site PLCs, a Laravel and Filament cloud backend, and a Flutter field app with an offline outbox and background sync.
Paid desktop app for macOS and Windows, packaged with PyInstaller behind a pywebview window, built on an automated pipeline that transcribes movie and TV audio with Whisper, detects profanity, and outputs a clean video with offending words muted or bleeped while preserving all other streams. Python CLI and Flask web service with a background job queue, Radarr automation, a Cloudflare Workers and D1 licence server, and multi-cloud image builds; cleans a two-hour 1440p film in under five minutes on an Apple M3 Max.
AI training-plan generator for endurance athletes: links Strava and Garmin, ingests recent activities via webhooks, and uses an OpenAI model to produce a continual weekly plan with heart-rate zones and realism analysis for a stated goal. Laravel app with Google OAuth, webhook-driven activity sync, and a Filament admin.
Multi-strategy trading bot for Polymarket's 5-minute crypto up/down prediction markets, running per-strategy threads through the full round lifecycle: signal, sizing, CLOB order placement, resolution, and on-chain claiming on Polygon. Python and Flask with a real-time dashboard, WebAuthn/passkey auth, SQLite persistence, and Binance and Polymarket data feeds, plus a Martingale backtester over roughly 81 days of history.