About

Hello, I'm Shane. I've been a hacker and builder for three decades. It started with running a BBS called Broon's Bane as a teenager, until the German government sent me a cease and desist. I later worked on encrypted mobile devices at Motorola, helped build Orbitz, one of the first online travel sites, and was one of the first engineers at Groupon.

Along the way I contributed to open source like Ruby on Rails and built mobile apps, including the TED app and Drum Kit, both featured by Steve Jobs in Apple keynotes and downloaded by tens of millions of people. After a detour into crypto, I'm now obsessed with AI and building tools to (hopefully) make your life easier.

Find me on X and GitHub.

Recent Projects

• Hark

  Talk to your Hermes agent, hands free. A real-time voice app for Hermes, on your iPhone.

• agent-handoff

  Move a running coding-agent session to another machine and keep going there.

• Cozy

  AI search for iMessage on Mac. Ask questions across years of messages, with your message database kept on your Mac.

• Vanta

  Private Markdown notes & GTD for iPhone, with on-device AI.

• ModelRelay

  Charge your users for the AI they use. Call leading models through one API, with every request metered to the customer who made it.

• Shane's Skills

  Code-quality skills for Claude Code and other agents: decomplect reviews architecture for tangled concerns and coupling, and unslopify catches weak types, hidden failures and duplication.

• Grokify

  A browser extension that replaces Wikipedia links with Grokipedia.