Elliott Whiteway
Independent projects

Projects and
experiments.

Most of what I build is about getting from what someone wants to do to having it done, with as few steps in between as possible.

I build with AI agents, and a lot of the work is figuring out how to do that well. For how I think about technology more broadly, see Carbide Studios.How I approach it

Selected work

Current and recent work
Construction · CollaborationIn use

Carbide List

A punch list for residential builders. The builder walks the house and adds what’s left to fix. Crews open the project from a link, with no account or download, and send back a photo when the work is done. The builder checks it and closes it out. It works in English and Spanish.

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Connection · Family & friendsLive pilot

Chillin

An app for hanging out with family and friends without scheduling a call. You say how long you’re around, your people see it, and they can drop in from a link. No account needed. The room closes when the time runs out.

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Movement · Native appsIn development

TreadCal

A more accurate calorie estimate for incline walking. Incline settings vary between treadmills, so TreadCal uses the iPhone’s sensors to measure the actual slope and calculates from that. Each Apple Watch workout ends with a climb receipt, like “432 ft · Hill climb.”

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Reading · VoicePrototype

Threadmark

A reading app you can talk to. When an article raises a question, you ask it out loud, follow the answer as far as you want, then go back to where you were.

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Connection · RealtimeExploration

Carbide Spaces

Calls with a shared workspace on the same screen, so notes, plans, and activities sit next to the people you’re talking with. I explored it and moved on. Its call code became the start of Chillin.

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Language · Critical readingArchived experiment

The Generative Mind

Tools for seeing what a piece of writing does to your thinking: whether it opens a question up or closes it down. It showed its reasoning so you could disagree with it.

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How I approach it

At Carbide Studios, the working idea is that technology should strengthen what it joins. In these projects that usually means fewer steps between an idea and the thing actually happening.

No call to schedule

Seeing family usually means picking a time. In Chillin you say you’re around, and they can drop in from a link.

About Chillin

One list for the whole job

The builder, the crew, and the homeowner see the same items and the same photos, each in their own language.

About Carbide List

Checking what the agents learn

I use agents to build, review, and debug. When one writes down a lesson, I test whether it actually helps on the next problem.

The experiments

Further explorations

Ongoing & archived
Games · LearningLive

Tiny Rivals

A math game I made for my kids. Hard questions turn into bosses, beaten bosses become creatures they keep, and a garden lets them play with shape and area.

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Personal geneticsClosed

Genetic Playbook

Read a raw DNA file in the browser, without uploading it, and explained the results in plain language with the references attached. The project is closed.

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Food · DiscoveryPrototype

DeelishDish

Restaurant reviews sorted by dish, so you can see what people said about the thing you’re thinking of ordering.

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Personal systemsOngoing

Beany / Elliott OS

My setup for keeping AI useful from one day to the next: decisions, priorities, and context kept in notes the tools can read and I can correct.

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From the notebook

Smaller experiments & earlier work
Wave

An earlier reading app where you could start a conversation on any paragraph.

RSVP Reader

A webpage and Chrome extension for reading faster, one word at a time.

The Night Shift

An illustrated science book for children about sleep. A story draft and early artwork exist.

Agent Development Lab

Tests of whether lessons agents write down on one problem help them on the next, and how a group of agents compares with a single reviewer. Read about the experiments.

Narrative portfolio

An earlier version of this site, built as one scrolling story with animation.

Voice analysis

An audio experiment that combined a transcript with tone of voice.