04 Side Projects
Built for friends and family
A friend is moving from Perry, New York to Los Angeles, so I planned the drive. Another one needed a draft board. My parents could not agree on the backyard, so I rendered it six ways and Driftwood won the argument. None of it is real estate, and all of it was built the same way the real estate work is built, which is the only reason it is on this site. If you want any of it, open the full prompt under a project, copy it, and drop it into your own Claude or whichever model you use.
01 The Road Trip Planner Tell it where you are going. It hands the drive straight to Google Maps.
Planning that drive properly is a real piece of work: figuring out where each night should land, which days will run long, and where to quit early if a day goes badly. I built the plan for the move, then built the planner so anyone could do the same. It opens loaded with his trip.
Total mileage is not the point. It optimizes for what the evenings are worth. A day that ends in a city with somewhere to eat beats a day that ends at an exit ramp motel forty minutes short of one, even when the shorter day looks better on paper. Night driving counts against a day too. If a day is likely to end after dark, the plan writes in a town where you can stop early.
The route loads live in Google Maps below, stop by stop, and one click opens it on your phone.
The full prompt. Read it, copy it, run it in your own model.
02 The Draft Board One rule: accuracy over coverage.
A friend needed a draft board for his NFL league, so I built him one.
The design rule was accuracy over coverage. Nothing about a player's team, role, or status was asserted from memory. Every fact on the board came from a source the run read right then, and anything it could not confirm got a flag instead of a guess. A board that confidently puts a player on the wrong team is worse than a board with a hole in it.
The prompt below is the whole tool. Give it your league's scoring, size, and your slot, and it researches the current season, builds the tiers, and hands back a round-by-round plan with a list of everything it could not verify so you can check it yourself the morning of the draft.
The full prompt. Point it at your league and let it run.
03 The Backyard Initiative One yard, designed six ways, argued about at the dinner table.
My parents were talking about redoing the backyard, and everyone had a different picture in their head of what it could be. So I photographed the yard and had the model design it six different ways on top of the real thing. Generating a pretty image is easy. Keeping the house, the camera angle, and the hardscape fixed while only the scheme changes is the hard part, and it is what let the six get argued about at the dinner table.
The renders come down while the final set gets picked. The schemes were named so the argument had handles: Driftwood took it, with Silverwood and Dune in the room and one golden hour pass on the winner.
The full prompt. Bring one photo of your own yard.
Method
Work out what has to be true for the answer to hold. Verify each of those. Build the thing. Then build the check that tells you when the thing is wrong. That last step is what decides whether anyone uses it twice.