I build software. I'm also building a car.

What I like building is software that replaces a mess: spreadsheets, sticky notes, the same data typed into three places. Motorvar is the biggest one so far.

Motorvar is a workspace for independent used-car lots where one vehicle record carries everything: what the car cost to acquire, what recon still owes it, the public listing, the buyer leads attached to it, the deal documents, and the gross when it finally sells. The problem it fixes is boring and expensive. Most small lots run an inventory tool, a CRM and an accounting system that don't talk to each other, so the same car gets entered three times and the numbers quietly stop agreeing. I'm also building a first online storefront for an independent eyewear retailer, which is a smaller version of the same problem.

Outside of software there's the car, a 2019 C63, currently stage 2. What I like about a build is that it has a forced order. You can't hang bigger turbos on it until the fueling and the cooling can keep up, so every upgrade tells you exactly what the next one has to be. Finding the bottleneck, fixing it, and discovering the bottleneck moved somewhere else is most of what software is too.