I'm Matt. I'm the founding engineer at Drumbeat, a political tech startup. I like writing code that removes friction between me/my friends and the things we like to do. Here is what I've been up to lately.
TypeScript • Postgres
Political social media content marketplace. Moves [confidential, but substantial] USD per month from 501c3s and 4s to short form creators. Widely used, widely beloved, revenue generative, never breaks :)
Built the whole thing from scratch. It is my brainchild.
Check it out here
TypeScript • Postgres
Spin-off of the above for Drumbeat's UGC operation
Check it out here
TypeScript • Agents
A web UI for my resy api (below). Also agentic. Text it at +1 (606) 224-0078
Check out the site here
TypeScript • Next.js • Gemini
Automated apartment tour scheduler. Roost uses user preferences and biographic information to automate outbound to the brokers of listings that meet user criteria. Uses search-enabled Gemini to enrich broker names with contact info.
Check it out here
Python • TypeScript • Prompt Engineering • Telegram • Google Sheets
Backend:
A Telegram bot that leverages LLMs to categorize activities. Message the bot how you spent your time in plain English, and it will call OpenAI's GPT-3.5 Turbo API with a carefully engineered prompt to extract duration and activity information from your message and log it in Google Sheets. A friend and I are using it to track our time management in 2025 in an effort to substitute creativity for doomscrolling.
Frontend:
A Typescript frontend to display user stats/trends. This one is very much a work in progress to sharpen my frontend development skills. I'll get there soon enough.
Rust • API Reverse Engineering • Async Programming
I just wanted to take my girlfriend to a nice dinner at a reasonable hour. I built this tool to monitor and book restaurant reservations right when they drop. Doing this required reverse engineering Resy's API endpoints from the frontend, which was just too much fun. However, I've decommed this tool as a moral matter. Please enjoy it in its current, defanged state.