kevin showkat
builds and ships software end to end — iOS, backend, infrastructure, release. modern toolbox, old-fashioned accountability: everything specced, reviewed, and verified before it ships.
receipts over vibes.
now shipping
the group chat with a score. An iOS app where friends rate everyday stuff from 0 to 10 and see how the group lands. Built with SwiftUI at a 120Hz interaction budget, backed by Node/Postgres on AWS.
live on the app store · current release in review · 120+ builds
worth stepping out for. A native iPhone guide to source-backed things to do soon in LA, with personalized lanes, venue-aware parking guidance, saves, sharing, and a recommendation inbox that keeps scouting the city. SwiftUI client with a Node/Postgres account and recommendation service.
iOS client in development · web guide live
customer acquisition, under control. An AI-assisted outreach control plane built for a client — their business; I build the software. One controlled workflow with bounded LLM steps, not an agent swarm. Next.js/TypeScript, RDS Postgres behind a Lambda bridge.
in production · revenue-generating
desktop tools
A desktop app for editing images and trying visual ideas quickly.
- brood — an earlier desktop image editor that led to cue (macOS, Tauri, Rust)
- room-edit-lab — room-photo edits, overlays, vertical video assembly
- param_forge — terminal harness for testing image models
receipts
- oscillo-vision-reports — image-model comparisons with methodology
- meerkat engineering notes · dispatch engineering notes
- llms.txt — machine-readable index of this site