Portrait of Benjamin S Powell

RoleInternal Tools & Platform Product Manager
FocusInternal Tools · Automation · Delivery
Projects11 Active · 3 In Development
Status Open to internal tools / platform PM roles · Remote (UTC+7)
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Projects

[11]

Apps, Chrome extensions and self-hosted systems I actively build and support.

01 active
Directory / Web app

Our Local Host

A searchable directory of self-hosted apps and open-source alternatives, find what's supported on your home OS and get away from big tech while staying high-tech.

02 active
Web App

Datatruck

Form submissions that deliver themselves. Post JSON from any form and Datatruck summarises, tags and routes it to the right inboxes, with prepaid credits billed per delivered email.

03 active
Chrome Extension

SendHub

Save your API endpoints with auth and headers in the browser, then fire them from quick buttons in one click. Built for power-users of Make, Zapier and homelab automations.

04 active
Web App

VdoPage

Create branded video landing pages with YouTube, Vimeo or your own uploads, transcoded to HLS and served from the edge. No code, custom URL, share in minutes.

05 active
Chrome Extension

LabDash

A lightweight, no-nonsense homepage for homelab owners, a clean launcher for your services, organized into pages and groups. No graphs, no noise.

06 active
Self-hosted workspace platform

Chatbarry

My self-hosted replacement for ChatGPT / Claude desktop, multimodal agent chats, projects, agents and scheduled tasks, on usage-based cost instead of a subscription.

07 active
Chrome Extension

Stagehand

Draw arrows, highlights and spotlights on any page while you screen-record, simple on-screen annotation for instructional videos, demos and walkthroughs.

08 active
Chrome Extension

QuickMap

Local, private flowcharts in your browser. Drag, drop, connect and export, no sign-ups, no cloud, no fuss.

09 experiment
Self-optimising affiliate site

ServerStack

Helpful homelab guides in Spanish, published as an affiliate site that runs its own SEO: it reads its search, engagement and click data every week and applies the optimizations itself.

10 active
Self-hosted task manager

BarryDo

A self-hosted to-do list with the agent layer built in: one Cloudflare Worker serves the phone app, the API and a 14-tool MCP server, so your agents read and write the same tasks you see.

11 active
macOS agentic IDE

AgentiDE

A compact macOS Electron IDE where every project lives in one interface: chat-directed Pi agents over Herdr, file tree and editor in support, todos that start agents, and a four-layer onboarding that grounds every agent in the codebase.

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Case Studies

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Internal tool delivery, workflow transformation and automation — the product work behind the posts.

2026.08.13

Coding with AI: From Copy-Paste to Custom Harness

Read → How I went from pasting ChatGPT's answers into VS Code to running a custom Pi harness on Z.ai's GLM-5.3, and why the slow, painful copy-paste years are exactly the reason I can now ship multi-tenant applications with AI.
2025.08.22

How I used ChatGPT to code and deploy BongoCat.

Read → After BetterCast, I wanted to experiment with AI as my 'virtual CTO'. BongoCat was my first major project, an attempt to build a self-writing, self-optimising website, and along the way I learned how to direct ChatGPT to code, deploy, and stitch systems together.
2024.05.08

Implementing a Comprehensive Video Management System for Squash Courts

Read → A practical, cost-effective video system for six squash courts: always-on streaming, coach controls, internal hosting on Unraid, and clear paths to scale and secure.
2024.05.03

Upviral - Transforming the Campaign Creation Workflow at Upviral

Read → Upviral's campaign creation workflow by simplifying the user journey, implementing agile methodologies, and enhancing customer satisfaction, leading to significant business results.

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