Max Allaire

02 · Work · 15 projects · 6 live

Built to find out.

Prototypes and products from February to September 2026, each written up as what I built, what I learned, and where it cut against my own thesis. All directed, none hand-coded.

AHeadliners

The ones that matter most for Solana: research, payments, tokenization, a live market-making bot, and the BD tool I used in the field.

The verifier lab: buyer agent defines the task, seller produces the work, verifier checks before payment moves
02 · Apr 2026 · redesigned Sep 2026Live

x402 Verifier

Check an agent's work before the x402 payment moves. Live Solana-devnet simulation: seven task types, stepped judge policies, disputes.

  • TypeScript
  • Next.js
  • pnpm monorepo
  • x402 (@x402/core, /express, /fetch)
  • +4
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Fieldnotes home: the editorial front page with the latest explainers and outlook pieces
03 · Sep 2026Live

Fieldnotes

Editorial reference site on agentic payments, Solana liquidity and institutional adoption, with a day-gated data refresh and review flags.

  • React 19
  • TypeScript
  • Vinext
  • Cloudflare Workers
  • +3
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Crypto Leads dashboard: 46 protocol leads, Wormhole integrations, contacts and sentiment at a glance
05 · Apr 2026Demo

Crypto Leads

A lead-gen tool for cross-chain DeFi BD: protocol leads, Wormhole tracker, sentiment, AI briefings. Live demo, no login.

  • Next.js 16
  • TypeScript
  • Supabase (Auth, Postgres)
  • Tailwind
  • +2
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BProducts

Products beyond the crypto work, each with real users or a public demo. Every one taught me something about running a build.

The Daily home screen in the Instrument design system: near-black graphite, hairline rules, one lime signal colour
01 · Jul–Aug 2026Live

Marathon Training App

A single-user marathon training app with Whoop and Strava sync, a real backend with row-level security, and a public demo mode.

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Personal OS home: today's calendar, recovery, training load and accounts on one screen
02 · May–Jun 2026Demo

Personal OS

One dashboard for a life's data: calendar, sleep, training, health and money, pulled from five integrations into a single private view.

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Hearth's Today view for a house manager, rendered with placeholder data: schedule, open requests, tasks and the daily briefing
03 · May–Jun 2026Case study

Hearth

A production operations platform for a staffed household: calendar, tasks, requests, documents and a daily briefing, scoped by role.

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Elo Solutions home: hero and the work grid linking to Hearth, Marathon, Personal OS and Leads CRM case studies
04 · May–Sep 2026Discontinued

Elo Solutions

The site for my one-person studio: production software for founders, built by directing AI agents.

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GeoWatch conflict tracker: a world map with countries coloured by intensity and a multi-source headline feed
05 · Feb 2026Live

GeoWatch

A geopolitical conflict tracker and macro dashboard on an interactive world map. My first build with Claude Code.

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ETF Screener: a filterable, sortable table of BlackRock funds
06 · Feb 2026Live

ETF Screener

A screener for BlackRock ETFs: filter, sort and compare funds in one table.

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CExperiments

Weekend builds and design studies. Short write-ups, honest about what they are.