Concrix gives surplus building materials a proper marketplace, so sellers move stock that would otherwise sit idle and buyers source materials without chasing leads across chats. I'm building it from zero as the technical partner, with a stake in the venture.
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","sortOrder":2},{"slug":"beyond-insights","name":"Beyond Insights","tease":"A learning platform for an investment educator.","status":"building","role":"Build Partner","engagement":"engaged","shot":{"url":"Beyond Insights","label":"Beyond Insights screenshot"},"screenshotUrl":null,"nd":[{"label":"The opportunity","text":"A large, long-term student base that the company wanted to reach on mobile and serve through an updated portal."},{"label":"What they had","text":"A working student portal and an internal team focused on the internal tools they run."},{"label":"What I built","text":"Shipped the student mobile app, and building the next version of the portal behind it."},{"label":"How involved","text":"Build partner for specific student-facing products, working alongside their internal team, on a fee engagement."}],"stack":["React Native","NestJS","Next.js"],"visit":{"href":"https://www.beyondinsights.net/","label":"Visit ↗"},"bodyHtml":"Beyond Insights teaches thousands of students, many of whom stay with their programs for years. They brought me in to build the student-facing products: I shipped the mobile app that puts courses on students' phones, and I'm building the next version of the student portal behind it. It's a fee engagement, scoped to these projects, while their own team carries the internal tools they know best.
","sortOrder":3},{"slug":"oryza-technologies","name":"Oryza Technologies","tease":"My first venture, before Tiny Edges.","status":"closed","role":null,"engagement":null,"shot":null,"screenshotUrl":null,"nd":[{"label":"What it was","text":"My first attempt at building a product company."},{"label":"What happened","text":"It did not become a business."},{"label":"What I learned","text":"Architecture is not enough. Business model, timing, market, and distribution decide whether a product survives."},{"label":"Why it stays","text":"I keep it here because leaving out the work that failed would make the rest less honest."}],"stack":[],"visit":null,"bodyHtml":"I leave it here on purpose. It became part of the lens I use to read every business I build with today.","sortOrder":4}]