The biggest thing I have been working on is now out in the world.
ChoreTask has officially launched.
You can visit it at choretask.com.
ChoreTask is a purpose-driven platform built around a simple idea: people helping people. You can post something you need help with, or offer your time and skills to help someone else.
The platform supports both local tasks and remote tasks.
Local tasks are the things that need someone to physically show up. Yard work, errands, moving help, pet care, assembling furniture, cleaning up a garage, or helping carry something that seemed much lighter when it was purchased.
Remote tasks can be completed from anywhere. That might include technical support, creative work, administrative help, tutoring, research, design, writing, or helping someone solve a problem over the internet.
I wanted both sides to live in the same place because people need many different kinds of help, and people have many different ways they can be useful. Someone may need help moving a couch one week and need help fixing a spreadsheet the next.
Building ChoreTask has taken up a large part of my life lately. I have worked through the design, branding, user experience, account system, task and offer flows, private discussions, payments, notifications, moderation tools, hosting, and the long list of less visible things that have to work before a platform can actually launch.
I also made a 30-second short to introduce ChoreTask and give people a quick look at the idea.
There is a lot more I want to show. I plan to make a series of short videos explaining how ChoreTask works, how to post a task, how to offer help, how local and remote tasks differ, and what people can expect when they use the platform.
Those videos are coming. At the moment, I am balancing the launch with a fairly heavy stretch of client work, so I am building the material around ChoreTask whenever I can find the room.
For now, the site is live, people can sign up, and the best way to understand it is to take a look:
Bots Vs. Bots
Outside of ChoreTask and client work, I recently finished a music video for The Right Tools, a song by my experimental band, Bots Vs. Bots.
Bots Vs. Bots is made up of digital personas. Each band member represents a different large language model, including ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok.
My role is essentially to put the models in a room together. I give them an idea or a problem, let them argue, challenge one another, and try to work toward something useful. I guide the process, make the final decisions, and turn the results into songs, characters, visuals, and experiments.
It is part creative project and part dysfunctional committee meeting.
The video for The Right Tools was digitally “shot” inside my house. I used extensive reference photos of the rooms, furniture, lighting, and objects so the digital band members would feel like they were actually occupying a real location.
The difficult part was maintaining consistency. Rooms had to remain recognizable between shots. Furniture had to stay where it belonged. The lighting and camera angles had to make sense. The band members needed to feel like they were performing inside the space rather than being added on top of it.
The video is finished, and you can watch it here:
I am also sharing another Bots Vs. Bots song, Robot Under the Sea.
I wrote the original song about twenty years ago. It sat around for two decades and is only now finding its way into the light, with a group of digital personalities helping bring it back to life.
Game Development
Game development is still on the back burner.
I still have ideas and projects I want to return to, but ChoreTask is going to take up most of my time as I get it rolling.
I recently started using Cursor, and I have been loving it. It played a major role in helping me build ChoreTask, and I am interested to see what it can do inside a game-development workflow. I can see it being especially useful for prototyping mechanics, building systems, and working through technical problems without losing an entire day to one mysterious line of code.
That experiment will have to wait until things settle down a little.
Right now, the priorities are client work, introducing people to ChoreTask, and continuing to improve the platform as people begin using it. The music is still happening, and the games are still there, but ChoreTask is where most of my attention is going next.