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πŸ‘‹ Hi, I'm Steve

πŸ“ San Francisco | πŸ€– Founder at Dottie AI | πŸ“š O'Reilly Author

X GitHub JavaScript Swift React Node.js Claude CLI iOS

Shipping apps for 15+ years β€” 100+ apps, 5M+ downloads. Objc/Swift for 10+ years, now building AI-powered tools with JS.

Projects

Open Source

  • πŸ“± Silo - Private AI assistant for iOS, fully on-device
  • πŸ€– Grok CLI - Grok CLI coding assistant
  • πŸ” Domain-Checker - Private domain availability tool β€” no tracking, no logs
  • 🎯 xQR - Lock Screen QR to your 𝕏 profile -- great for meetups
  • πŸ›Ή Skateboard - React Boilerplate with Tailwind, Shadcn/ui, Stripe, Vite
  • ⏱️ Clockwork - Menubar time tracker for macOS
  • 🀹 Skills - Agent Skills for Claude and other LLMs
  • πŸ“ System Prompts - Prompts for writing code with LLMs, Deno, Vite, React 19+
  • πŸ”— Mongo MCP - Connect LLMs to MongoDB
  • πŸ• Kiosk - Costco Food Court Kiosk
  • πŸŽ—οΈ HIVAware - Find HIV testing sites and get answers -- HIVAware.org
  • ❀️ BeatHF - Monitoring for Congestive Heart Failure Patients - Stanford Bio Buildathon

iOS Work

  • πŸ—οΈ SDScaffoldKit - Scaffolding for Core Data models
  • ☁️ SDScaffoldSync - Create a cloud syncing mobile app in 3 minutes
  • πŸ” SDLoginKit - Login/Sign-Up ViewControllers for custom backends
  • 🧰 SDKit - Collection of useful iOS classes
  • πŸ“° HNReaderPlus - Simple Hacker News reader for iOS
  • 🎯 GetFocused - Block distracting websites and get focused

What I'm Doing

  • Building AI tools - Exploring how LLMs change everything about app development
  • Teaching - Helping developers ship their first apps
  • Writing - Author of Introducing iOS: Swift Programming from Idea to App Store
  • Community - Organizing NSMeetup, SF's largest iOS meetup (4,000+ members)

Recognition

  • O'Reilly Author - Introducing iOS β€” learn to make apps with zero experience
  • Featured Developer - 100+ apps, 5M+ downloads, featured by Apple
  • Fortune 500 clients - Amazon, BMW, Coca-Cola, MGM, NBA, Pandora, Rolls Royce, Salesforce
  • AppSchool Founder - Created AppSchool.com to teach 500+ students
  • NSMeetup Organizer - San Francisco's largest iOS meetup (4,000+ members)
  • UC Berkeley Guest Lecturer - iOS DeCal judge and mentor
  • Mentor - Teaches programming and career skills to underprivileged students
  • Public Speaker - "Idea to App Store", "Zero to Hero", "Project Bailout Stories"
  • Global Health Advocate - Built HIVAware app to locate testing sites and provide HIV/STD education

Media

Philosophy

"Ship it." - I build apps that solve real problems. 100+ shipped and counting.

Random Facts
  • Never had a cup of coffee
  • Ran a 4:15 mile β€” captain of collegiate cross country and track
  • FIRST Robotics national runner-up
  • 10,000+ lines of open-source code contributed

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  1. silo silo Public

    a private ai assistant for iOS. Chat with LLMs with no tracking or censorship. Local and completely on-device, no internet required.

    C++ 4 1

  2. skateboard skateboard Public

    a boilerplate with react, tailwindcss, shadcn/ui, stripe, vite, and javascript

    JavaScript 3

  3. grok-cli grok-cli Public

    grok cli coding assistant

    TypeScript 8 1

  4. system-prompts system-prompts Public

    prompts for writing code with LLMs, deno, vite, react 19+, and tailwind v4+