Musick
musick.com.au
Australia's entire live-music scene in one place — thousands of upcoming gigs, venues, set times and weekly what's-on guides, right across the country.
7,000+upcoming gigs
3,500+venues tracked
Set timesthe killer feature
Data aggregationSet timesSEO at scaleAutomation
What it is
A national gig guide that pulls together live music from thousands of venues into one searchable place — capital cities and 100+ regional towns alike.
What it does
- Tracks thousands of upcoming gigs across every Australian state and territory.
- Its standout feature: actual set times — search an artist, gig or venue and see exactly when everyone plays.
- Weekly "what's on" guides, regional town pages, trending artists/venues and last-night recaps.
- Free tools for bands, venues, promoters and photographers to get involved.
Why I built it
Finding live music outside the big cities is genuinely hard, and set-time info barely exists anywhere. I wanted one honest, free place that covers the whole country — including the regional rooms everyone else ignores.
DesignMyInk
designmyink.com
Describe the tattoo in your head and watch it become studio-ready flash in about 30 seconds — in any of 60+ real tattoo styles. A full commercial AI product: free tier, paid plans, HD downloads.
60+real tattoo styles
~30 sidea to design
5free to start
AI image generation60+ stylesCloudflare WorkersFreemium SaaS
What it is
An AI tattoo design generator: you describe your vision in plain words, it produces studio-ready artwork you can refine, download in high resolution and take straight to your artist.
What it does
- Generates designs in ~30 seconds across 60+ genuine tattoo styles — Irezumi, watercolour, neo-traditional, blackwork, fine line, geometric and more.
- Describe → generate → refine → download. No drawing skills, no account needed for your first designs.
- HD output with no watermarks, clean enough for an artist to stencil from.
- Runs entirely on Cloudflare Workers with a freemium model — first designs free, paid tiers for more.
Why I built it
Partly because the gap was real — people walk into studios with a vague idea and a Pinterest board — and partly as the full commercial test: a consumer AI product with real image-generation costs, real billing and real customers, built and run end-to-end by one person.
DroneFishing AU
dronefishing.au
Honest, hands-on fishing-drone reviews — tested on real Australian surf, not spec sheets. Every recommendation is backed by a drone I've actually flown and a fish I've actually landed.
3major drones compared
100%flown & fished by me
Content & SEOBuyer guidesCatch logsCASA/legal
What it is
An independent, practitioner-run review site for fishing drones, judged for Australian surf conditions rather than marketing specs.
What it does
- Hands-on comparisons of the major drones (Aeroo, SwellPro, Gannet) for real beach use.
- Gear that survives bait drops in the suds — rods, reels and rigs, tested and re-bought.
- Catch logs with named beaches and exact rigs — the proof behind every call.
- CASA rules and per-state fishing law explained in plain English, kept current.
Why I built it
Most "best fishing drone" pages are written by people who've never put one over the back of a wave. I fish the Fleurieu and the Coorong, so I wrote the honest version: what works, what breaks, and what isn't worth your money — and I say so when I haven't tested something.
What's Next?
whatsnext.rexe.au
A free, science-based career-direction tool for people who are genuinely stuck — real psychometrics matched against 1,000+ Australian jobs, then synthesised by AI into a plan that actually fits you.
1,000+AU occupations matched
3validated instruments
$0free forever
PsychometricsAI synthesisO*NET + AU job dataFree forever
What it is
A career-direction quiz built on validated, peer-reviewed instruments — not personality colours or spirit animals.
What it does
- Holland Codes (RIASEC), Big Five (OCEAN) and Schwartz Work Values — real, validated tools.
- Matches your profile against 1,000+ occupations filtered through live Australian wage, growth and demand data by state.
- Returns 8–10 fitting careers with pathways, day-in-the-life snapshots, honest reality checks and a 30/90/365-day plan.
Why I built it
I have two daughters in different versions of "stuck" — one in hospo wondering what's next, one in Year 11 choosing uni, TAFE or work. No book is tailored to either of them or knows the Australian job market. So I built it for them, then made it free for everyone.
Men's Mental Health AU
mentalhealth.men
Straight answers on men's mental health — no fluff, no judgement, written for Australian blokes. Plain-English guides that explain what's going on and point to real help.
50+plain-English topics
1 clickquick exit, crisis-safe
Content architecturePlain-EnglishHelp pathwaysSelf-help tools
What it is
A no-judgement men's mental-health resource covering 50+ topics — from anxiety, depression and addiction to separation, job loss, grief, anger and asking for help.
What it does
- Explains what's actually going on in plain language, the way it shows up in blokes specifically.
- Every guide points to real, concrete help — including a "not sure where to start" path and "worried about a mate" guidance.
- A private, on-device self-help track for people who want to work on it at their own pace.
Why I built it
Too many Aussie blokes carry this stuff alone because the help out there felt clinical, preachy, or just wasn't written for them. So I made the plain-English version: what's going on, what to do, and where to get real help. There's no wrong door.
SeparationSense
separationsense.com.au
Separation means two households on the same money. This models what both can actually afford — child support, government payments and weekly living costs together — privately, in your browser.
8 stepsformula, all shown
2households modelled
0 bytesleave your device
Child support formulaTwo-household cashflowFTB & gov supportLocal-first / private
What it is
An Australian post-separation finance modeller — a private planning estimate of the money side of separating, for both homes at once. Deliberately estimate-only: planning clarity, not financial or legal advice.
What it does
- Runs the full Australian child support formula — all 8 steps shown, not a black box.
- Models weekly cashflow for both households, including Family Tax Benefit, Parenting Payment and Rent Assistance.
- Handles the interactions no single tool shows — tax, child support and government payments all move together.
- Save and compare what-if scenarios. Everything stays on your device; nothing is sent anywhere.
Why I built it
The child support formula is eight steps of opaque maths, and it lands on people in some of the hardest months of their lives. Most tools show one side, one number. I built the version that shows both households honestly — and made it private by design, because this data is nobody else's business.
notNPD
notnpd.com
Been called a narcissist? A calm, plain-English place to work out what that word actually means, what it doesn't, and what to do about it — no jargon, no diagnosis, no telling you you're a saint.
0scores kept or sent
2 truthsheld at once
Plain-EnglishNon-diagnosticAnonymous reflectionCrisis-safe
What it is
An educational resource for people who've had the word "narcissist" thrown at them. It holds two truths at once: the label is wildly overused, and real narcissism exists.
What it does
- Explains narcissism and NPD in plain language — what the word means clinically versus how it gets used online.
- "Is this narcissism?" walkthroughs of common accusations — selfishness, needing space, avoiding conflict.
- An anonymous self-reflection tool: no account, no score kept, nothing saved or sent.
- Anonymised reader stories, curated sources, and clear pathways to real Australian help — crisis-safe throughout.
Why I built it
A companion to mentalhealth.men. "Narcissist" has become the internet's default word for any difficult man, and the people it lands on have nowhere calm to think it through — everything online either damns them or absolves them. This does neither. It says: here's what the word means, here's what it doesn't, and behaviour can still be worth changing without a disorder attached.
Rexe
rexe.au
Verified, not just claimed. An adaptive AI interview that produces an honest, calibrated read of how someone really builds software — strengths and gaps. A credential built on honesty.
10–15 minadaptive interview
Calibratedconfidence, not pass/fail
Adaptive AI interviewCalibrated scoringShareable reportsFull SaaS
What it is
A skills-verification platform that runs a short, adaptive interview and grades real ability — whether you're a deep systems engineer or someone who ships products by orchestrating AI.
What it does
- A conversational interview that follows up on your own answers and digs for lived specifics, not textbook recall.
- Every skill gets a calibrated status and confidence level — never a single fake pass/fail green tick.
- Produces a clear, shareable report an employer can actually trust because it doesn't overstate.
Why I built it
A 2026 job opening gets 250+ AI-polished applications and employers can't tell signal from noise. Traditional interviews also miss people who genuinely ship with AI. Rexe verifies real experience and stays honest about what it couldn't confirm.
EA Centre of Excellence
ea.rexe.au
Enterprise architecture, practised well — plain-English learning for practitioners. The judgment frameworks certification skips, the anti-patterns wallpaper EA produces, and how to actually run an ARB.
27modules, 5 rings
7quizzes + capstone
2 daysrepo to live
27 modulesQuizzes & capstonePractitioner-ledAstro static
What it is
A free Enterprise Architecture Centre of Excellence — learning pathways for people who have to do EA, not just pass an exam on it.
What it does
- 27 modules across five rings, from foundations through governance, capabilities, ARB practice and technology domains.
- Seven quizzes, a full worked case study (Harbour Mutual) and an exportable capstone pack.
- Opinionated and pragmatic — the judgment calls, trade-offs and anti-patterns that certification courses skip.
Why I built it
Thirty-five years in large Australian corporates and government taught me that EA fails in practice, not in theory — and that the training industry sells framework certification, not judgment. This is the plain-English version I wish every new architect (and every exec who hires one) got handed on day one.
Kettera
kettera.com.au
An AI architecture practice for Australian ICT leadership. The AI estate of an organisation, mapped and governed with enterprise-architecture discipline — assessments, a regulatory canon and classifiers, not think-pieces.
6 axesmaturity assessment
2live instruments
100%deterministic, in-browser
AI maturity assessmentRisk classifierRegulatory canonCookieless
What it is
A credibility-first practice site for AU CIO, CISO and EA leadership: treat AI as an estate to be mapped and governed — not a pile of pilots. EA method supplies the rigour; AI is the entire subject; the Australian regulatory context is the frame.
What it does
- An AI EA Maturity Assessment: score your estate across six axes (five domains plus governance), get a radar, an overall Kettera Index and three prioritised gaps. Deterministic scoring, in your browser.
- An AI Use-Case Risk Classifier: maps a use case to its EU AI Act tier, the DTA impact-assessment threshold and the Privacy Act ADM position — then lists the obligations that attach.
- A living, dated Australian regulatory canon with a changelog — because in governance, the dates are the value.
- A two-axis model (Method × Domains) organising the whole practice, with anchor artefacts built to authority standard.
Why I built it
Every Australian ICT leader is being asked "what's our AI position?" and the answers on offer are vendor decks and vibes. This is the other thing: enterprise-architecture discipline applied to AI, tools before articles, deterministic and transparent — the practice I'd want to find if the question landed on my desk.
City to Surf Results
city2surf.rexe.info
A searchable historical archive of the world's largest fun run — every runner, every finish time, back to the very first race in 1971. 320,000+ results and growing.
320,000+results preserved
1971earliest race digitised
Data digitisationSearchArchivalHeritage data
What it is
A complete, searchable record of Sydney's City to Surf — the historical results most people assumed were lost to time.
What it does
- Search by surname (and first name) to find your place and finish time across every year in the archive.
- Covers 1971–1988, 1996–97 and selected recent years, with more being added.
- 320,000+ results, with the 1970s data preserved from publicly published media of the era.
Why I built it
The early results of an iconic race — from 1,500 finishers in 1971 to tens of thousands — were scattered across old media and effectively unsearchable. I digitised and preserved them so anyone can look up their own piece of that history.
Solar Pays Off
solarpaysoff.com
Instant, no-email energy calculators for every US state — solar payback, EV charging cost and AC running cost — built on real public data and funded entirely by display ads.
160+per-state pages
3calculators
1 dayrepo to live
Programmatic SEOPer-state data engineAstro staticAd-monetised
What it is
A suite of three instant energy calculators — "is solar worth it?", "what does it cost to charge an EV?" and "what does my AC cost to run?" — rendered for all 50 US states plus DC.
What it does
- Live calculations from your real numbers — power bill, miles driven, AC size — against your state's actual electricity rate and the 30% federal solar credit.
- 160+ pages of genuinely-different per-state data (EIA rates, NREL sun, IRS credit), not spun templates — programmatic SEO done honestly.
- No email, no lead-capture wall, nothing leaves the browser. Funded by display advertising, not by selling your details.
Why I built it
A deliberate revenue experiment: rather than one big bet, build small, honest, genuinely-useful tools that earn passively through ads. US-targeted for ad value and engineered so every state page earns its place — proof that programmatic SEO and ad monetisation can be done without thin content or dark patterns.
Studio
studio.rexy.au
An installable progressive web app for running email newsletters — compliant double opt-in list-building and scheduled sending, designed to live on your phone's home screen like a native app.
Multi-tenantone app, many lists
Double opt-inSpam Act compliant
PWA / installableDouble opt-inMulti-tenantNode + SQLite
What it is
A mobile-first, installable web app (PWA) that runs the newsletter loop — from audience-building to scheduled sending — built to install to your home screen and work app-style, not just live in a browser tab.
What it does
- Compliant list-building: double opt-in signup that meets the Australian Spam Act, embeddable across multiple sites.
- Multi-tenant by design — one app, many newsletters, each with its own list and verified sender.
- Installs to the home screen and sends real email through a verified provider, on a schedule.
Why I built it
I wanted to own the relationship with my readers directly rather than rent it from social platforms — and to run it from my phone, app-style, wherever I am. So I built the desk to do it, mobile-first, and made it multi-tenant so it can power the audience for every site I run.
