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Built by Colton

Updated Tue / 2026-10-06 / 4:55 AM CT

What does he build?

Passion projects.

The things he builds because he loves them: birds in slow motion, a study app for birders, a free toolkit for forums, and his travel films and family films.

Slow Motion Birds

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Backyard birds filmed in slow motion and played back silently and calmly, free on Apple TV and at slowmotionbirds.com.

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Better Birder: A bird-trip study app: load the checklist for an upcoming trip and learn the birds you will actually meet before you go. Everyone benefits when you're a better birder.

Better Birder

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A bird-trip study app: load the checklist for an upcoming trip and learn the birds you will actually meet before you go. Everyone benefits when you're a better birder.

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Forum Playbook

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Tools, templates and one-pagers for running better peer forums, plus a free iPhone and iPad app with a field guide, cheat sheets and a meeting timer.

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Is This A Business? Inc.: A real company run in public with Brad Montague, as a deliberately over-serious dashboard chasing its first dollar.

Is This A Business? Inc.

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A real company run in public with Brad Montague, as a deliberately over-serious dashboard chasing its first dollar.

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Mah Jongg Helper: A first-timer's table companion for American Mah Jongg: the first moves, a rack checker, and a practice table.

Mah Jongg Helper

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A first-timer's table companion for American Mah Jongg: the first moves, a rack checker, and a practice table.

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The Lag Loop: A scroll-through explainer that turns gamer lag into something your body can feel.

The Lag Loop

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A scroll-through explainer that turns gamer lag into something your body can feel.

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What Happens Next: Ten years of AI predictions, four themes a year, sealed as a time capsule and scored as reality arrives.

What Happens Next

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Ten years of AI predictions, four themes a year, sealed as a time capsule and scored as reality arrives.

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The Calm Board: A full-screen board that says in very large letters whether anything needs attention right now. Usually it says no.

The Calm Board

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A full-screen board that says in very large letters whether anything needs attention right now. Usually it says no.

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Inspiration Repository: Sites, films, frames and sentences worth stealing from, tagged by layout pattern, in three different views.

Inspiration Repository

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Sites, films, frames and sentences worth stealing from, tagged by layout pattern, in three different views.

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