Alan Halley

Rapid Prototyping Specialist. I turn ideas into working software in hours, not weeks. AI-assisted development. Building in public.

[Alan Halley @AppEngineers]

Built a communication triage dashboard concept this morning.

AI scores every notification: Urgent / Respond / FYI / Noise.

Discord + Gmail + GitHub + Linear. Put it on a wall monitor. Glance up. Stop checking.

→ https://t.co/lYrsgxuoJf

[Alan Halley @AppEngineers]

A friend asked: "Who is buying all these new apartments in Ilhéus? Locals can't afford them."

My guess: Paulistanos. São Paulo has no beaches. Ilhéus is a two-hour flight.

I built a prototype to help them find one.

https://t.co/iLqkwGnXJc

[Alan Halley @AppEngineers]

I added email notifications to an MVP this week. Should've taken an afternoon. Took three days across six AI systems that didn't know each other existed.

I was the only integration point.

New essay: https://t.co/PIqyJ0LiPy

[Alan Halley @AppEngineers]

Fifteen days after launching my marketplace, I used it to buy a go-to-market plan for my marketplace.

Real money. Real proposal. Loop closed.

https://t.co/QK64duy1xW

[Alan Halley @AppEngineers]

Built a marketplace for short-burst expert work. One brief.

One screening question. No cover letter theater.

Clients pay $50 to post — quality filter, not a paywall. Experts apply free.

https://t.co/3anl92SyX5

[Alan Halley @AppEngineers]

Most of the people I used to argue with are dead or unreachable. This is not a complaint. It is a logistical problem with a partial solution.

https://t.co/pQQXtMpg0w

[Alan Halley @AppEngineers]

Built a working AI decision tool in one weekend.

Describe any choice in plain language → AI builds a decision tree → expected value analysis → optimal answer highlighted.

Claude + Stripe. Free + $9/mo Pro.

Try it: https://t.co/1s533oxpZw

I do this for clients. $500–$5K

[Alan Halley @AppEngineers]

I downloaded Obsidian and stared at an empty structure for maybe 5 seconds.

That was the beginning of figuring out how to actually work with AI tools.

New essay: https://t.co/whBcJGTrQu

[Alan Halley @AppEngineers]

Built a personal wiki this morning using Claude Code + Obsidian. One terminal session. It read my files, found a forgotten tax bill, a security hole, and two people missing from my contacts.
Andrej Karpathy posted the pattern yesterday. I tried it today. It works. @karpathy

[Alan Halley @AppEngineers]

Your morning routine: open Gmail. Switch to Calendar. Remember a task. Open another tab. Glance puts all three on one page. Two minutes and you're done. https://t.co/gqmZ14WhX7

[Alan Halley @AppEngineers]

Built a Google dashboard concept: Gmail + Calendar + YouTube + Tasks + Drive + News — one page, one login.

Why six tabs when you don't need them?

Waitlist: https://t.co/QddjtUkPrS

[Alan Halley @AppEngineers]

How many tabs do you open every morning just to catch up?

Built Glance to fix that. Email + calendar + social + YouTube + Substack + news. One page. Your layout. AI filters the noise.

→ https://t.co/gqmZ14WhX7

[Alan Halley @AppEngineers]

@briebriejoy If I were your neighbor, I could cook whatever, whenever for you. Simple things. I do that every day for myself and friends and neighbors. I'm retired in Brazil, stop by anytime. But seriously, perhaps you may have a neighbor that likes to cook?

[Judge Andrew Napolitano @JudgingFreedom]

Prof. John Mearsheimer : Welcome to Cold War 2.0 https://t.co/MxMSPsBxZe

[Alan Halley @AppEngineers]

@carlvellotti I find the Terminal quite odious.

[Alan Halley @AppEngineers]

@Glenn_Diesen https://t.co/re3nhICMgt

[Alan Halley @AppEngineers]

@asymco Where is West Virginia? How is it relevant to fractional parking space in the USA?

[Alan Halley @AppEngineers]

@SingleOccupant @_dmoser @asymco @ITDP_HQ What’s the black vehicle with the wide tires?

[Alan Halley @AppEngineers]

@InfiniteBlockHQ @CityBits_Max @culdesac Isn’t this another streetcar suburb? Same as 100 years ago, but this time with government trams?