Damien Bastin
Palm Springs, CA
I've been making software for over 25 years. I've built some wonderful stuff. Some of it actually works quite well.
BidBetter
ActiveBuilding BidBetter — AI buyer reports for car auctions. Drop in a listing from Bring a Trailer, Cars & Bids, Hagerty or PCarMarket. Get recent comparable sales, model-specific known issues, and questions to ask the seller. Plus a bid range backed by the data, not vibes. The homework you'd want before you raise a paddle.
Pet Simple
🏗️ Building...Pet Simple is a starter kit for new pet owners. Tell it about your dog or cat, and it builds a personalized list of products, local vets and groomers, and breed-specific care tips. The recommendations are AI-generated against a curated product catalog, so you get real picks instead of generic top-10 lists. There's also a breed quiz to help future owners figure out what they actually want, and a finder for adoptable pets nearby. Live at petsimple.ai.
Bindle
ActiveBindle is software to help small and medium sized businesses manage time off for their staff. Bindle replaces the emails and spreadsheet that most businesses still use to keep track of leave bookings and balances. It's awesome.
BOB
☕️ On holdA groundbreaking collaboration between Hot Purple Energy and Homemade Software that transforms how Southern California Edison (SCE) bills and solar production data is analyzed.
Sharemail
☕️ On holdSearch your company’s emails while maintaining privacy. Sharemail is an AI bot that can access your business’s emails accounts so you can instantly find the answers you need. Search for files, conversations, and specific emails. Content is not disclosed without the owner’s consent.
CompletionKit
ActiveBuilding CompletionKit — your prompts need tests too. It runs prompts against real datasets, judges the responses with metrics, and keeps a versioned trail of what worked. Use it three ways: hosted at completionkit.com, self-hosted as a standalone Rails app on your own infra, or mounted as an engine inside an existing Rails app — same UI, REST API, and MCP server in every mode.
Waywise
ActiveWAYWISE is a real-time audience understanding engine for your entire game studio. WAYWISE enables you and your team to deeply understand, and stay connected with players throughout the entire dev cycle.
Paytools
ActiveRun payroll like a pro. Plan, manage and optimize your payroll operations on a platform designed for today’s payroll teams.
Ada
ActiveBased on a series of questions about your mood and tastes, Ada can use available ingredients (and AI) to create the perfect cocktail. Built to showcase OpenAI usage and a stack using NextJS, React, Vercel, MongoDB.
Taylor
☕️ On holdThis is a(nother) virtual bartender chat app. It's a ChatGPT wrapper that walks a customer through an omakase style bar experience to devise the perfect cocktail according to the customer's tastes and preferences. It's actually pretty darn good!
