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Eli Rousso @elirousso
Thursday, November 20, 2025 import

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Some things I've built over the past 12 months: ⚪️ Napkin — Public Beta · Free · Next.js AI powered brand naming tool. Learned a ton about Next.js, TS, and the Vercel AI SDK. This became my default stack for everything I built afterward. ⚪️ Void — Shipped · $9.99 Lifetime · SwiftUI An infinite markdown notepad that syncs over iCloud and works across all devices. It picked up a small following during its TestFlight. Since then it’s evolved into a fast way to jot notes and insert markdown snippets. ⚪️ Rams — Public Beta · Free · SwiftUI + Next.js Industrial design generator. Fun to experiment with and wild to see how fast image models are improving. Loved seeing people post their hardware concepts on X. ⚪️ Soho — Shipped · $89.99/yr · Expo + Next.js AI fashion advisor and shopping agent. My first App Store launch with real subscriptions and customers. I’ve built a few web apps solo, but this felt like my first actual App App. No outside help. ⚪️ Protocol — Shipped · $9.99 Lifetime · SwiftUI Noise generator with particle effects. Built as a toy, ended up being surprisingly useful. Friends really like it. It will absolutely put you to sleep. ⚪️ Acid — Internal Prototype · Next.js After a few consumer apps, I explored automating UGC-style content by aggregating moodboards and generating videos with trending sounds. Got far with a couple of approaches but lost interest. Really didn't feel right. Moved on. ⚪️ Loop — Internal Prototype · SwiftUI Continuing with the naming scheme of the other two Swift apps, Loop is a pomodoro timer for deep work for iOS. Loop, Void, and Protocol all share the same ethos, values, and aesthetics. Still need to ship this one to offer as a trilogy. ⚪️ Personal Site — Shipped · Next.js Rebuilt my site with services, experiences, and product pages. It’s always been a warm-up space, like a zen garden for experimenting with design and code. Never finished. All of these projects were experiments to push my abilities and learn. Especially Soho. I still haven’t met another designer in NYC who shipped an App Store app with subscriptions end-to-end, solo. None of this would’ve been possible without Cursor, which has basically become my favorite design tool. It lets me build whatever I want. As I’ve gotten deeper into the code, the tools, and the process, my next goal is to get faster and ship more.