🔧 Projects

Here are a few things I’ve built in the last few years. Making something that you can share with the world, however simple, is deeply satisfying.

• 🤖BirthdayBot (in progress)
  React.js Node.js
  My first webapp, built using React.js and Node.js. It keeps track of the birthdays of your friends and family, and notifies you ahead of time via email so you can send them a card or gift in time.

• Scharl.Click
  Ghost Digital Ocean
  My coding blog, where I post weekly updates as I learn how to build a web app in public. The site uses an instance of Ghost self-hosted on a Digital Ocean droplet.

• Scott’s Links
  Webflow
  Webflow site where I post links to some of my favorite essays and blogposts. I have a Zap where I can collect the links via Pocket.

• jcscharl.com
  Wordpress
  I built my wife a portfolio website on Wordpress. An embedded Airtable allows her to quickly update lists of published poems and articles. She’s also able to collect signups to her newsletter, Word Hoard.

• SamMcClelland.com
  Carrd
  I built a portfolio site for my friend Sam, a freelance writer, using Carrd. This was the first money I ever made for a web development project!

• J. C. Scharl’s Published Works
  Softr.io Airtable
  Links to everything my wife has published, stored and editable in an Airtable base.

• Quotebot
  Zapier Airtable Twitter
  A bot that collects pithy quotes submitted by my friends and I into an Airtable base, then posts them to Twitter via a Zapier integration. You can submit a quote here if you have a good one that comes to mind!

• Scott Reads Poetry
  Anchor.fm
  Podcast where I read poems for your enjoyment. The goal is to test my equipment and learn how to produce a podcast. I’m currently using Anchor.fm to publish the recordings. Check out my readings, and let me know what you think!

• Springs Beer (best on mobile)
  Glide
  A no-code mobile app I built using Glide that lists name, location, and contact info for all local breweries in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Users may save Favorites and to post reviews of each establishment. This was a fun mini-project! You could very easily make one for your town by cloning my app. Look for a tutorial soon!

• scottscharl.com (this site)
  Jekyll Github Pages
  I built this site using Jekyll, a static website framework, and host it for free on Github Pages. This is my first-ever attempt at a web development project. It’s been fascinating to learn the rudiments of command line, HTML, CSS, Javascript, YAML data files, and more. I’ll be improving the site’s aesthetics and functionality over time as my knowledge grows, as well as adding new posts to my blog. I am indebted to Chuck Grimmett for his inspiration and for this helpful list of Jekyll resources he created for me.

• Days Until Christmas
  Integromat Google Sheets
  This one’s silly. I used Integromat and Google Sheets to create a Twitter bot that posts, daily, the number of days remaning until Christmas.

• FinTwit Store (shut down)
  Shopify
  I built a Shopify store selling print-on-demand products for members of the Finance Twitter community.