veeLIVE
A team of AI agents — Vee, Emma, Preston, Felix — on Slack, powering a human team that gives law-firm owners strategic planning and accountability.
ai-agentsslackflagship
DEREK
SHANAHAN
builder // maker
- role
- builder · thinker · investor
- status
- building something right now
- output
- products · hacks · small bets
- mode
- ships fast, ships often
builderRUNNING
ships products & hacks, fast and often
thinkerRUNNING
connects dots across weird, unrelated domains
investorACTIVE
buys & builds small software, backs people who ship
- build 50%
- think 30%
- invest 20%
SHIP RATE
CURIOSITY
$ dshan --whoami
initializing derek.shanahan …
› role = builder, maker, investor
› makes = [ products, hacks, small bets ]
› stack = next · ai-agents · whatever ships
› thesis = small things compound
loaded 12 builds, 15 experiments. ok.
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file-based-crmLIVE
A CRM with no database. Contacts and deals live as Markdown in git, queryable by AI over an MCP server, synced from Gmail.
mcpgitmarkdown
momentum.fastWIP
A momentum tracker for people who quit on day three. Log the streak, watch the chain, don't break it.
habitsnext.js
pgmfLIVE
The Patrick Grange Memorial Foundation — honoring the first American soccer player diagnosed with CTE. Awareness and ALS research.
charitycause
big-truck-picsLIVE
A stock-photo platform for the trucking industry, with metadata written by Claude Vision. Exactly what it sounds like.
claude-visionmarket
tinystatsLIVE
Lightweight analytics — the numbers you actually look at, drawn as graphs you read in a glance, no enterprise dashboard tax.
analyticssaas
gmdisplayLIVE
A full-screen, always-on gallery for digital art. Wallet-connect, rotate your collection, give NFTs a place to be seen.
web3art
gmlistLIVE
Multi-chain NFT discovery for collectors. Public wantlists, an artist database, price tracking across ETH, Tezos, Bitcoin.
web3curation
therarankLIVE
A ranking and comparison layer for mental-health services — find the right care without wading through ten review sites.
healthdirectory
jeffco-crewLIVE
An automated local-events newsletter. A scraper crawls 100+ sites, an LLM writes it up, the county gets a weekly digest.
scraperpython
metaquillWIP
A platform for spinning up niche newsletters fast — referral tracking, many titles, one backend. The factory behind a few of these.
newslettersplatform
dbfyiARCHIVED
Turning raw datasets into things people can see and use — aggregation, visualization, and a browser extension to grab it all.
dataviz
vee
velocity work · agent ops
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AGENTS
Slack
SURFACE
LIVE
STATUS
A team of AI agents powering a human team that gives law-firm owners strategic planning and real accountability. Memory, workflows, the lot.
›shipping beats planningnote-01
A rough thing in the world teaches you more than a perfect thing in a doc. Start ugly, learn fast, throw most of it away.
›range is an edgenote-02
Crypto galleries, charity sites, fantasy football, AI agents. The connections between unrelated things are where good ideas hide.
›small is underratednote-03
Tiny tools, tiny markets, tiny bets. Most of the upside in software hides in things too small for anyone else to bother with.
I like talking to builders, swapping half-formed ideas, and backing people who ship. If that’s you —
@dshan on X→open to builds · bets · chats
links // soon
Field notes from the back rooms — hacks, one-nighters, and genuinely random ideas. Some became real things. Most didn’t. All of them taught me something.
twitter-follower-exportchrome
Export your follower list. Shipped to the Web Store.
email-grabberchrome
A scrappy extension for pulling emails off pages.
bicyclesize.comtool
Tells you what bike frame size you actually need.
oddsprobability.comtool
Turns gut feelings into probabilities.
double-gameweekfpl
Fantasy Premier League nerdery, branded and ready.
upwind-jobsjobs
A job board just for wind-energy and renewables work.
willaiai
An AI that drafts your will. Lawyers, look away.
ceramic-cookware-hubshop
An entire e-commerce site about non-toxic pans.
humanizerbot
Makes robotic text sound like a person wrote it.
nuggetstype
A little family of playful display fonts.
grokcryptoedu
An educational on-ramp for people learning crypto.
itll-be-finewee
A tiny landing page for a tiny reassuring idea.
lobster-souls??
Exactly as weird as the name suggests.
nft-swapweb3
Peer-to-peer trading for digital collectibles.
tinymarkstool
A bookmark manager that stays out of your way.
…and a graveyard of others that never got names.