It's worth acknowledging the many skills and technologies used to develop these apps and services. It can be helpful for future employers who are looking beyond a resume.
There are many ideas for apps out there, a dime a dozen. It takes lots of time to develop them though, to execute on them. Over time, I've seen these ideas and projects produced by others as well. Other people spend their valuable time doing the same things. Maybe they can learn from these failures, or to avoid these ideas entirely.
This was a service and WordPress plugin for users to upload their social media data files to the cloud, and then import their content into their WordPress blog. Facebook was supported first, then Twitter, and then Instagram and TikTok. It was planned to import Reddit and Tumblr content as well. Status updates, images, and videos could be turned into blog posts. It had advanced filtering and grouping capabilities so that a group of small status updates could create a single blog post, or grouped into multiple blog posts depending on the interval (day / week / month / or tag).
In June 2025, it was decided to shut down this service and plugin because it wasn't as popular as we'd hoped it would be. It didn't make sense to continuously support it with new WordPress versions (retest and reupload) if barely anyone was using it. There were a few marketing campaigns, but the ad expenses were just too high and it failed to convert enough.
There is so much content on YouTube and while YouTube has its own TV app, but it's not curated well for browsing categories of videos well. (YouTube has restrictions on what apps and websites can do with its videos.) Vintillect created apps to make it easy for smart TV viewers to browse content using their remote control.
Two main TV apps were created using Vue.js and the tv data objects were hosted on Firebase. During prototype testing with various smart TV brands, the apps had to be downgraded to use jQuery instead of Vue.js . Samsung and LG only supported jQuery instead of React.js and Vue.js .
It was tested on real TV devices from the major tv brands, and while it worked well on some, it performed poorly on others. Some TVs failed to provide enough brand/model information that was needed to calibrate the mouse-remote directional key taps correctly. Some TVs just didn't have enough RAM to support the app's size. Security became an increasing concern since YouTube loaded ads from 3rd party sources and there were news reports of ads spreading malware ... and there does not seem to be any anti-virus software on smart TVs.
There are millions of videos for DIY, how-to, repairs, crafting, hobby tutorials, and etc. This app was the best-of-the-best curated lists of videos.
What ever happened to music video channels and just being able to watch music videos instead of reality tv? This app served videos by genre and year and decade.
Do you have a hundred bookmarks, a hundred tabs open in your browser, or send yourself links to look at later? This app (and service) was a way for you to save thousands of links and categorize them for easy browsing.
The initial motivation for this app was for something completely different. It would serve as a method for curating web pages by tag, category, and emotional reaction. This data could then be used by machine learning and search relevance algorithms. The purpose was to help AI understand relationships between entities and be able to automatically categorize web pages and content by topic.
Like the WordPress plugin, this app failed to generate enough interest and downloads. There are millions of apps out there and it was difficult to get noticed in the app stores. Marketing failed to generate enough interest and income to cover the server expenses.
Even though this dashboard is still in use, it's included here to demonstrate the extra work that goes into supporting these apps. (Also to demonstrate skills and broad expertise.)
