An app for collecting hackathon ideas and organizing teams around the topics they want to work on.
- TypeScript
- Datastar
- Better Auth
- pnpm
Software engineer
Paulo Cunha
I’m a software engineer with a past life as an architect and designer. I live in Copenhagen and build things at the edge of structure and interface.
Side projects
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Nostr Explorer
2025A self-hosted developer tool that fetches, indexes, searches, and previews Nostr events.
- TypeScript
- Nostr
- Meilisearch
- SQLite
- Bun
Reminders
2025A self-hosted reminders, todos, and lists app designed to keep personal data under its user's control.
- TypeScript
- Rust
- SQLite
- SSE
- IndexedDB
- Bun
Food Tracker
2025A small self-hosted app for recording daily meals, built over a weekend to replace an increasingly awkward notes workflow.
- TypeScript
- Hono
- SQLite
- Drizzle
- HTMX
- Alpine.js
- Basecoat
Blog Tool
2025A Rust CLI for turning Markdown posts into HTML pages or Nostr long-form article events.
- Rust
- Markdown
- Nostr
- CLI
Bookstr / Orfeu
2024–2025An experimental decentralized Goodreads-style Nostr client for book discovery, catalog data, and reviews.
- TypeScript
- Nostr
- Deno
- IndexedDB
- Negentropy
Writing
4More variables, harder problem
Reduce the amount of variables to simplify your problems, also in design problems.
Where knowledge lives
Designing and building a product is comprised of a set of tasks. There are 3 places where the knowledge about each task can live: people's heads, processes, or machines.
Every company should operate like a remote company
Remote companies require clarity. You need to promote communication, write down everything, define your processes with precision. These are all things that will make any company better.
Jumping to solution mode is natural and dangerous
When we are faced with a problem, we tend to immediately try to find a solution. Sometimes this is good - you won't be very effective if you question everything all the time. However, many times, this will prevent you from truly understanding the problem.