All the work · 2012 → today · 23 projects

Everything I've built.

Civic tech, software & science, and client work — click any card for the full story.

Democracy & elections

Where most of it lives

2012 → today · 9 projects

Pizza to the Polls

Feeding voters stuck in long lines — $2.57M raised, 104,000+ pizzas sent, all 50 states.

Since
2016, still going
With
Noah Manger, Katie Harlow
Civic techCo-founderOpen source

Power the Polls

Recruiting the next generation of poll workers when COVID threatened to close polling places.

Since
2020
Reach
710,939 sign-ups
Civic techStencilJSNPM embed

Data for Progress Maps

Embeddable D3 maps for progressive policy data, fed straight from a Google Sheet — deep links and snapshots included.

Since
2019
With
Noah Manger, volunteering
VolunteerD3Open source

American Voter Guide

A Rails engine for building PDF + web voter guides across the Alliance for Youth Action's affiliates.

Since
2016
Design
Ashleigh Axios, Jen Wick
RailsReactHeroku

National Voter Registration Day

WordPress scaled to a static site on S3 to survive half a million holiday visitors — for tens of dollars.

Since
2016
With
The Bus Federation
WordPressS3Static

Municipal Voter Guides

Spreadsheet-to-SPA municipal voter guides hosted free on GitHub Pages — Chicago, Denver, San Antonio.

Since
2015
With
Chicago Votes, New Era, MOVE SA
RubyGitHub PagesMobile-first

Just Vote Colorado

A one-stop voter info clearing house — registration, drop boxes, and what's on your ballot, in Spanish too. 72,000 Coloradans served.

Since
2012
With
Common Cause Colorado
KnockoutTargetSmartTextPattern

BallotDrop

Find your nearest Oregon ballot drop box — an HTML5 webapp back when the official lookup was Flash.

Since
2013
With
Jeremy Sher
Open dataGeolocationOpen source

TheBallot.org & November6th.org

Yelp, but for democracy — crowd-sourced social voter guides across all 50 states. 145,000 visitors, one Snoop Dogg tweet.

Since
2012
With
Noah Manger, League of Young Voters
RailsKnockoutFacebook login

Software & science

Where precision matters

2013 – 2020 · 5 projects

The early internet & client work

Where it all started

2012 – 2016 · 9 projects

BusPress & SalsaPress

A WordPress theme + plugin that let Bus affiliates — Montana to Nigeria — spin up sites wired into a shared Salsa database. 900+ downloads.

Since
2012
WordPressOpen sourceThe Bus Project

Bus Federation Annual Report

Thirty pages of a kick-ass annual year compressed into one long, scrollable, tabbed site.

Since
2013
Design
Mollie Ruskin, Reboot
WordPressLong scroll

#SoundOff @ Congress

Look up your legislators by zip and tweet at them — campaigns, embeddable widgets, and aggregated streams for HeadCount.org.

Since
2013
RailsAngularOpen source

The Ally Coalition

An iPad app that toured with fun. — fans got their photo with a sign, their legislators on screen, and a tweet sent on their behalf. Every stop.

Since
2013
Design
Noah Manger
Objective-CRailsOn tour

Young Invincibles

A full redesign plus the YI Bar — one brand nav across a fleet of campaign and infographic sites, managed from WordPress.

Since
2013
Design
Noah Manger
WordPressHTML5 apps

Central Arizonans for a Sustainable Economy

A friendly custom WordPress theme with every event and signup flowing into Salsa — everything on the site talks to everything else.

Since
2013
With
Noah Manger, Daria Ovide
WordPressSalsaPress

Alberta Eye Care

A photo-heavy neighborhood optometry site with background transitions, worthy of the Alberta Arts District.

Since
2012
Design
Mollie Ruskin
WordPressCustom plugin

Jack in the Box

Angular + Google Maps clustering across 3,000 nationwide locations — pan the whole country for the nearest taco.

Since
2016
With
Struck
AngularMapsContract

Rejuvenation

Staging-to-production sync for a large Rails/Mongo commerce stack — preview changes on production-like data before shipping.

Since
2016
RailsMongoContract