Greetings people of the Internet. Writing a small recap on my 2025 here. It was a year to dive deeper into the vibe-coding craze and push myself on all ends. As a product and somewhat technical person AI brought a lot of opportunities for all the ideas that always lingered at the back of my head. And well, the outcome is 125+ small and big digital products and 1 physical one. Some complete rewrites, some Chrome extensions, lots of small one-time apps built in an hour, and finally quite a few new builds that turned into actual products with a database, authentication and email loops. Another big chunk of the 125+ projects were internal tools that now run quietly in the background saving hours every week.
Below I am making a recap for myself and for a way to understand what is actually happening in software land. I definitely can’t have another year like 2025, but it was a nice excess of code overflow.
In terms of shipping products, beyond the one-time-use apps (though I think we’ll see predominant such activity in the coming year), this is what 2025 looked like on my side of the screen:
The Big Migrations
IDMTR got completely rewritten and redesigned. Everything moved to Astro, with 2 nice themes that feel comfortable to look at. Static page generation made deployments instant and the whole site is faster than it has any right to be :)
Coworkies was the largest migration of the year. Everything on the blog came out of WordPress and into a custom static generation system complete with a custom CMS. The blog finally moved from a subdomain to /blog. Main app pages like /cities, /space, and /people profiles all got redesigned too, it was time for a more modern look aligned to the rest of the website. I really wanted a blog integrated into the platform, so I’m quite happy how it all came together - with a unified platform-wide menu. And finally I’ve been delaying the Coworkies 3.0 article for over 2 years now, but 2026 might just be the time to unwrap it all.
Startup Berlin followed. The entire frontend migrated from Pug.js to Astro. Airtable was replaced with a Neon Postgres database and a REST API got built to connect everything to external services. The /events and /jobs pages started running on user submissions from Slack, with AI moderating everything. A new signup process, ditched Typeform - too many restrictions for a free plan for a free community. Then made a test Chrome extension prototype for a quick access to jobs and events, launching it soon on the Chrome store. All of the above is in beta testing mode.
Make Community Work main page and blog were running on Hugo. Landing and sub pages got redesigned and rewritten in Next.js 16 with React 19. The blog was redesigned and Hugo dependencies got updated to a separate /blog subdirectory. A print-funding MVP page went live with Supabase real-time update functions. The temporary landing page started collecting early book preorders from our community - yay 🎉, and a big thank you to the early supporters of the project!
TwoFifty.co our coworking consulting page escaped WordPress plugin hell. The whole site became a multilingual Next.js build with a custom admin CMS panel for adding articles, currently it runs locally. Git push to build on production. No more constant plugin updates etc. A bit of peace on that end is a welcomed change.
CREAM our new internal custom build business overview software for our consulting work with TwoFifty. Complete with kanban-style progress pipeline, dashboard, leads, deals, proposals, and accounts. Works exactly how we needed it to work for a small agile team with almost no time to waste. Will be working more on this one in the coming year, improving mostly on speed and performance than anything else. Maybe a mobile app 👀?!
*Was considering Payload CMS, but custom we did.
The New Builds
Synthesia is a new RAG system using I made using Google File Search and Gemini 3 Pro. It is integrated with Google Drive uploads and honestly it worked better than expected. Google’s AI APIs turned out to be surprisingly smooth to work with. Tested Antigravity to build it and must say it might be my 3rd preferred IDE of choice now. This will be a focus in 2026, hope to launch it publicly and see if it’s useful to other content people.
babami.app maybe my favorite app of 2025. It converts speech to large, auto-scrollable text for people with hearing difficulties. Built it to talk to my stubborn grandma without shouting. In sumamry, a multilingual web app, simple enough for elderly users to actually use without help.
The above app came as a realization that we can do a lot with AI for our families. Simple useful apps. In 2026 I plan to expand on this.
NomadsNest is a small lightweight caravan for quick outdoor adventures. Saw Slavi & Ivan at an outdoor expo in Plovdiv and offered to help them with some tech stuff. Turned into a full website rework. Hope we can launch it soon for people to check their awesome caravans. Just a project that falls into the bucket of helping friends.
Supa 𓆉 Marine connects to a Supabase instance and auto-generates an admin dashboard for all tables and automatic modals for editing data. Just better and cleaner than logging into Supabase all the time. Hopefully I can clean up and open-source it in 2026.
SupaDash became an all-in-one notification dashboard. Emails, Google Forms, Telegram, custom webhooks - everything flows into one place and stays there. Same as Supamarine, pending a cleanup and open-sourcing it in 2026.
JourneyMapper is user journey mapping software for organizations that care about a better human-centered physical services. Built a predefined gallery collection of user journeys from coworking to AirBnB and museums. Also AI generated journeys are now working. It shipped and people started test using it. Built for companies and consultants as prime users, hope we can test it more with our own clients in 2026 and make some improvements based on real feedback. Lots of work to come on this one in 2026.
Publishing Suite Tools
Hello Glocal Publishing our micro publishing company got its own custom back office software that tracks development, publishing, and sales. Custom reports and accounting exports included. It knows where every book is in the pipeline. It’s perfect for our company as we have a quick observability over all publishing, marketing and distribution/sales activities. Btw HelloGlocal.com got a redesign too.
Shotta built a custom page-screenshot generator of meta images for our portfolio sites. Deployed on Hetzner with Docker, Redis, and BullMQ dashboard. Cheaper and faster than paying for a SaaS screenshot API.
QuickColor makes fast background edits of transparent PNGs and shows color variations. Used it to test book cover colors without bothering the designer with mundane iteration.
IMPOSE & GRAIN calculates paper waste when deciding on book sizes and formats. It knows different vendor brands and paper types. Super useful to pinpoint the correct paper types and book sizes to be used. We learned a lot with the first book, so this tool helps us to make better decisions overall.
Merchant Helper is a local Stripe Chrome extension for shipping books with DHL and exporting accounting data. Small tool, massive time savings every single day.
DocuDoc a shareable one-stop file storage for easy printing of PDF label files used when shipping with DHL. Everything in one place, ready to print. When we travel my mom ships books for us, so she needed a simple tool to print DHL labels. Perfect small tool.
Content and Community
AW250CS got a landing page redesign and code file architecture optimization. Livestreaming and paywall rebuilt with Supabase integration. Built new comments and reactions system on Cloudflare. Also added custom pages for Universities, Companies, and Associations with unique benefits. And finally a /imperfect-edition page for damaged books at a discount. Completed the new functionalities with a reminder pop-up for customers who want to buy later.
COMS CommunityManagers Summit event page got two websites this year: one for Brighton (September 4th 2025), and one for the upcoming Barcelona (June 4th 2026) event with early bird pricing systems.
Coworking Tech Week our new technology in coworking event page got launched. Shipped a full platform (although not yet visible) including streaming and comments. More to come in 2026.
Coworking Observer aggregates coworking news from Google Alerts and custom feeds. Chrome extension for quick access, auth with personal profiles, voting, and favorites. LinkedIn integration pulls the best coworking content automatically. All in very early beta, but quite a few plans for this one. Going to experiment with it a lot in 2026.
*Matt Miller doeson’t even know that one of his 2025 posts made me add a new button to Linkedin 👀. But more on this soon.
Writing and Productivity Tools
WritersPad is a quiet, clean, and hyper-customizable writing editor. Works with or without AI. Early access for testing is open. Video flow can be seen here.
CarouselIQ makes LinkedIn carousels. AI generates slides content and images. Everything’s exportable and collaborative. This was one of those wild weekends where you just want to see if you can ship until the Sunday ends. Well, it did get shipped, so now I have to figure out what to do with it in 2026 :)
PlayScroll records parallax videos controlled by a joystick. Drop in an image or website, control the movement, record the output. Built for fun but turned out useful for simple parallax effects without opening After Effects.
Path Maker is part of the upcoming “Make Community Work” book. Still under wraps.
LinksMachine saves links, makes them searchable and exportable. Exports to markdown weekly. Thinking about publishing these publicly soon.
NotesMachine is a local storage note-taker with instant retrieval. Expands to full webpage view with editing modules. Dark/light theme, keyboard shortcuts, power user settings. It’s what Apple Notes should have been.
IzIDo extends a terminal To-Do App with Starship prompt integration I built in 2024. Now it’s a Chrome panel app for small teams working on multiple projects. Expandable views for day, week, year, and tasks. Schedule with due dates and tag people. Still deciding whether to connect it back to the terminal version.
RowMate is a simple web app for tracking rowing machine exercises. Create challenges with friends and have a leaderboard for motivation. Good basic MVP but needs more work and still figuring out how to make it universal and not depend on proprietary machines. Maybe visual tracking with the camera to count how many rows you’ve made.
In line with the above, I also made a few general apps for education and exercises. Most notably one for visual study of the human body and its organs and their functions. And another exercise one where you can add types of exercises and get a customized visualized guidance. For example, you can add “5 Tibetan Rites”, and it generates the flow with guidance and visual display of each.
PlankBlank is a prototype of the perfect wooden plank for laptop users. Customizable, light, and fits in a normal laptop backpack pocket. Traveled with it quite a lot this year, and hope to make it publicly available for purchase in 2026. You know, we’ve dipped our feet in product design before. More on it in Q2.
The above is not a complete list but a pick and chose of the more important/interesting project I worked on in 2025. Maybe I’ll update it with few more soon. Especially with some new app builds I made related to community/customers communication.
The Year in Numbers
Shipped overall 125+ products, this includes lots of small one-time use apps. Five Chrome extensions that we use daily. Dozens of internal tools saving hundreds of hours. A few projects making actual money. Most of them solving problems that needed solving.
Context switched between Astro, Next.js, Supabase, Neon, Cloudflare, Netlify, n8, v0, Figma, Cursor, Resend, Copilot, CLI AI agents, Antigravity, PostHog and whatever else the project needed. Some things started as weekend builds. The ones people used got refined. The ones nobody cared about stayed as is, simple in MVP mode.
In 2026 I will be focusing more on our core services that deliver coherent, long term value beyond a one time use. Although for work and personal needs I do believe we are all going to have personal app stores in max 2 years - generated from a chat message on WhatsApp or Telegram. The explosion of one time apps is an avalanche thast coming. Glad to see Anthropic pushing the Skill mode and Cowork mode over making apps like Google. We need less digital waste.
2026 is already looking quite busy.