The longversion.
I build products and I teach people. For years I treated those as two careers happening to the same person.
The short story is that I make things and then I show people how to make things. The longer one is that I have never been able to keep those separate for very long.
Design taught me to pay attention to the person on the other side of the screen. Building products taught me that attention is worth very little without something shipped. Teaching taught me the thing I did not expect — that most people are not short on ability, they are short on someone telling them the thing is learnable.
That last one reorganised how I spend my time. I still build. RELO and Paywise take most of the week. But the measure I actually care about is not how many products I have shipped; it is how many people are now building their own.
Where you grew up, what you studied, the first job, the studio years, how RELO and Paywise actually started. Write it in your own voice and drop it into src/routes/about.tsx — this is the one page that should sound entirely like you.
Kelvin working — desk, screen, notebook, whatever the real setup is. Shot from the side, not looking at the camera.
What I actually believe
Shipped beats clever
A modest thing people use is worth more than an elegant thing they don't. Taste shows up in what you finish.
Teach the thing you just learned
You do not need to be the expert. You need to be one step ahead and honest about where you are standing.
Design is a business decision
How something looks is downstream of what it is for and who has to pay for it. Pretending otherwise wastes everyone's time.
The things I've spent time on
Not a résumé. Only the years I can account for honestly — the rest are marked and waiting.
- 2019
The first room
Started teaching. Not as a career move — someone asked, and then someone else did.
- —
Add the years between
Studies, first jobs, the studio years, the first product that shipped, the first one that did not.
Not yet written
- Now
RELO, Paywise, and the rooms
Building the two products, still teaching, still speaking.
A room mid-session. The everyday version of the work, not the highlight reel.
If any of this sounds like something you're working on, say so.
I'm most useful early — when a product is still an argument about what it should be, or when a team needs to get better at building faster than it can hire.