Outside the lab

Passion Projects

Things I'm building outside the lab and the truck — half-finished, fully ambitious. Each one started because the thing I needed didn't exist yet.

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Med App

In Development 2026 — ongoing

A mock AAMC portal for pre-med applicants.

Same template. Same structure. Same flow. The freedom to draft, iterate, and stress-test before submitting for real.

The problem

The real AAMC application is high-stakes and unforgiving. Once you submit, you can't iterate. There's no sanctioned place to practice the workflow before you commit — pre-meds are essentially asked to nail a one-shot submission of the most consequential document in their career so far, with no way to rehearse the experience under realistic conditions.

What it is

A full mirror of the AAMC application portal — the same template, the same section flow, the same form structure — built as a sandbox where applicants can draft their materials, work through every section as if it were the real thing, identify gaps in their entries, and revise without consequences before they ever touch the actual AAMC.

Why now

Every pre-med I've talked to (and I'm one of them) has wished for this. The closest things that exist are static checklists, advisor-shared Google Docs, or paid services that don't replicate the real experience. There's a gap between "writing your essays in a Word doc" and "filling out the actual application," and that gap is where most applicants lose hours, energy, and clarity.

What's shipping

  • Replicated AAMC section structure & field-level form flow
  • Draft + autosave + version history per applicant
  • Section-by-section progress tracking and word-count guardrails
  • Self-review checklist mirroring AAMC submission gates
  • Optional peer / mentor review collaboration
  • Export to printable preview that mirrors AAMC's submitted-state PDF

Stack

Frontend — TBD Backend — TBD Database — TBD Hosting — TBD

Med App in-progress preview
In-progress preview — subject to change
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More on the way

More side projects in the queue — medical-education tools, lightweight clinical utilities, and a few unrelated curiosities. Listed here as they ship.

  1. Currently focused on Shipping the first usable Med App build — everything else is on hold.