Personal Projects

While I do have a full-time job, I like to explore new technologies, experiment with fresh ideas, and sometimes just build things for fun. So, here are a few side projects I’ve been tinkering with in my spare time:

Plankton (web)

Plankton is a .NET Core 9 Web API application with a Vue 3 frontend. I started this project to refresh my .NET skills after spending a few years deep in the Rails world.

To make things more engaging (and somewhat practical), I built a budget management tool — something familiar and useful — and used it as a playground to get back into the .NET groove. Since frontend isn’t really my comfort zone, I also used this as a chance to experiment with how AI can support UI development. Turns out, it was actually a lot more fun (and helpful) than I expected.

For deployment, I went with DigitalOcean’s App Platform — a smooth and straightforward experience that made configuration and setup surprisingly painless.

You can check out Plankton here.
Feel free to log in with admin@example.com and password Admin@123!

And hey — no judging my UX skills. I’m a backend dev just trying to mix things up. 😅

Plankton (Mobile)

This one’s still in the oven! 🧑‍🍳

Now that Plankton is up and running on the web, the next step is bringing it to mobile. I’m currently exploring .NET MAUI for this, since it’s cross-platform and lets me reuse some of the models and DTOs from the Web API project — which is a big win.

It’s still very early days, but once I have something worth showing, I’ll be back here with an update. Stay tuned!