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Forms convert badly because they ask everything at once. A chat interface earns the next question by answering the last one.

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Doug SilkstonemaxNov 2024 – Present

Technical Founder — Dinners With Friends

I built the product, the operations platform and the acquisition for a social-events business, and then I ran it.

  • Shipped a mobile app on both the iOS App Store and Google Play, built with Expo, alongside the web product.
  • Product and ops: ticketing and payments on Stripe Connect, guest messaging, lifecycle email, AI-assisted admin.

dinnerswithfriends.co.uk
#typescript#react#reactnative#expo#nextjs#hono#postgres#gcp#stripe#seo#lifecycle#growth
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Stack: TypeScript, React, React Native, Expo, Next.js, Hono, Postgres, GCP, Stripe Connect.

Doug SilkstonemaxMar 2026 – Jul 2026

Interim Engineering Lead — RaceMake.com

I led architecture and delivery for an LLM-powered sim-racing telemetry platform: a Rust/Tauri desktop app and a React web app.

  • I rebuilt both clients around extensible high-frequency telemetry pipelines and per-game adapters.
  • I built an AI pit team and interactive 3D visualisations on top of the live data.
  • I was brought in to lead, not to take direction. I set the architecture, then shipped it with the team.
racemake.com
#rust#tauri#typescript#react#nextjs#telemetry#llms#leadership
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Stack: Rust, Tauri, TypeScript, React, Next.js, telemetry, LLMs, 3D.

Doug SilkstonemaxWithSeismic · for Contra

Contra / Indy.ai — #1 Product of the Week on Product Hunt

I built Contra's Indy.ai Chrome extension, which turned the marketplace's own freelancers into its supply pipeline.

Product Huntcontra.com
#typescript#react#growth#gtm
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Doug SilkstonemaxNote

The mechanic: every install becomes a crawler with a human attached. The inventory a marketplace can't scrape is inventory its users walk past every day.

Doug Silkstonemax2016 – Present

Lead Product Engineer / Consultant — WithSeismic

I've run an independent product-engineering consultancy for 10 years and delivered 100+ engagements, for clients including Framer, The Motley Fool, Groupon, Contra and Weedmaps.

  • Consulting, scoping, pricing, delivery and ongoing support for technical builds.
  • Product engineering, growth engineering, technical marketing, analytics plumbing and interim engineering leadership.

withseismic.com
#typescript#react#nextjs#nodejs#python#llms#aws#gcp#postgres
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Doug SilkstonemaxNote

Most engagements start on someone else's codebase, with a date already promised to a customer. Ten years of that has taught me more about what makes a product hold up than any of my own builds did.