# Projects

A working portfolio of apps, tools, infrastructure, podcasts, and experiments across AI, personal systems, and technology culture.

Canonical: https://jonathantipper.com/projects
JSON: https://jonathantipper.com/projects.json

## Project index

- [Tech Back Control App](https://jonathantipper.com/projects/tech-back-control) (active) - Tech Back Control is where AI, sovereignty, tooling, and practical digital self-determination come together. Launch: https://www.techbackctrl.app. Tags: ai, podcast, sovereignty, products.
- [Home lab and infrastructure](https://jonathantipper.com/projects/home-lab) (active) - A home lab running Unraid, Docker, VMs, home automation, media, agents, and self-hosted tools I use day to day. Tags: infrastructure, home-lab, automation, web3.
- [TechBackCTRL Operating System](https://jonathantipper.com/projects/tech-back-control-os) (active) - The OS layer at techbackctrl.app/os, bringing together profile state, launch surfaces, and the broader TechBackCTRL experience. Launch: https://www.techbackctrl.app/os. Tags: tech-back-control, os, ai, launcher.
- [UniFi Network Setup](https://jonathantipper.com/projects/unifi-network-setup) (active) - A home networking project using UniFi to run, monitor, and understand the connected systems around the house. Tags: home-lab, networking, unifi, infrastructure.
- [TechBackCTRL AI Playground](https://jonathantipper.com/projects/tech-back-control-playground) (active) - A running app at playground.techbackctrl.app for chat, image, speech, embeddings, model usage, and experimentation. Launch: https://playground.techbackctrl.app. Tags: ai, playground, models, tech-back-control.
- [AI Spend Calculator](https://jonathantipper.com/projects/ai-spend-calculator) (building) - A product experiment for tracking AI tool spend across services, categories, and time. Launch: https://ai-spend-calculator-app.vercel.app/. Tags: ai, dashboard, finance, tools.
- [TechBackCTRL CLI Emulator](https://jonathantipper.com/projects/tech-back-control-terminal) (active) - An operator-terminal surface for navigating mission files, local progress, commands, and the TechBackCTRL world through a familiar CLI metaphor. Launch: https://www.techbackctrl.app/cli. Tags: tech-back-control, terminal, cli, os.
- [Learn Chinese Agent](https://jonathantipper.com/projects/learn-chinese-app) (building) - A language-learning agent experiment for Chinese practice, review, progress, and memory-assisted coaching. Launch: https://learn-chinese-app.vercel.app/. Tags: language-learning, chinese, mandarin, ai, coach.
- [Purchase Assistant](https://jonathantipper.com/projects/purchase-assistant) (building) - A purchase-value calculator that turns price, lifespan, usage, and depreciation into cost-per-use and cost-over-time signals. Launch: https://purchase-assistant.vercel.app/. Tags: personal-tools, finance, calculator, dashboard.
- [Todoist Agent](https://jonathantipper.com/projects/todoist-agent) (active) - A running task surface at [private endpoint], useful enough to live in Launchpad but private enough not to expose as a public demo. Tags: tasks, agent, productivity, ai.
- [Personal site and launchpad](https://jonathantipper.com/projects/launchpad) (building) - jonathantipper.com brings together public context, active projects, and practical launch links in one maintainable place. Launch: https://jonathantipper.com/launchpad. Tags: website, nextjs, mdx.
- [Techcycle Runner](https://jonathantipper.com/projects/techcycle-runner) (building) - A game project that turns a 25-year technology timeline into a side-scrolling runner with eras, hazards, demand surges, and collectible tech themes. Launch: https://jans-25-year-anniversary-tech-timel.vercel.app/. Tags: game, technology-history, interactive, timeline.
- [Sweep Inspector](https://jonathantipper.com/projects/sweep-inspector) (building) - A Rust-based local-first utility for understanding clutter in folders such as Downloads or Desktop without moving, renaming, copying, or deleting anything. Tags: local-first, files, productivity, privacy.
- [OpenClaw Agents](https://jonathantipper.com/projects/openclaw-agents) (active) - An eight-agent mission-control system for researching and semi-autonomously building apps through a structured SDLC workflow on self-hosted infrastructure. Tags: agents, self-hosted, automation, sdlc.
- [LLM-Wiki for Personal Agent](https://jonathantipper.com/projects/llm-wiki-hermes-agent) (building) - A personal-agent memory system that turns daily conversations into a living context graph, helping agents build a more useful knowledge model over time. Tags: agents, memory, knowledge-graph, personal-infrastructure.