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Doug Silkstone

Promptheus

Voice-to-ChatGPT browser extension

Independent builder · Built and grew it to 30,000+ users

Built a voice-to-ChatGPT browser extension independently.
Reached 30,000+ users within a year.
Set as a standalone assessment on MIT's Generative AI and LLM course.

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RaceMake

Live telemetry and analysis for sim racers

Interim technical lead · Led architecture, team and delivery

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RaceMake helps sim racers understand their driving through live car and lap data, AI-assisted analysis and interactive 3D visualisations. The interim technical leadership role covered architecture, team leadership and delivery across the desktop app, web app and the data pipelines connecting them.

Led architecture and delivery across a Rust/Tauri desktop app and React web app.
Rebuilt both clients around extensible high-frequency telemetry pipelines and per-game adapters.
Built an AI pit team and interactive 3D visualisations on top of live telemetry.

racemake.com

#rust #tauri #typescript #react #nextjs #telemetry #llms #leadership

Doug Silkstone

WithSeismic

Independent product engineering and growth

Founder · Scoped, built and supported 100+ client engagements

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WithSeismic is an independent product-engineering business that builds software, analytics and marketing automation for client teams. As founder and sole operator, the role spans finding the commercial problem, scoping the work, designing and building the solution, and supporting it after launch.

Delivered 100+ product-engineering engagements over 10 years for clients including Framer, The Motley Fool, Groupon, Contra and Weedmaps.
Scoped, priced, delivered and supported every technical build independently.
Runs a fixed ten-business-day, £12,000 Revenue Loop Sprint that finds one material commercial leak and ships one corrective system into production.

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withseismic.com

#typescript #react #nextjs #nodejs #python #llms #aws #gcp #postgres

Brian TigheHead of Technology @ The Motley Fool

Doug is a pro. I'd hire him again for any future marketing & technology initiatives.

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Doug Silkstone•STRV

STRV

Conversational lead generation

Product engineering · Built the enquiry and qualification interface

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This project gave prospective STRV clients a conversational way to explain what they needed instead of filling out a contact form. The engineering work covered an AI chat interface that gathered project requirements and qualified enquiries before a sales conversation.

Built a conversational lead-generation interface.
Qualified inbound visitors inside the product instead of sending them through a form.

strv.com

#llms #react #typescript #growth

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ctxdc

Interactive context-engineering course

Design & engineering · Built the course site and simulation

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ctxdc is an eight-week course on context engineering: how to give AI systems the instructions, information and memory they need. The work covered the course site's design and implementation, using an interactive Conway's Game of Life simulation to help visitors explore the material.