DaQuan Louden

I taught myself to build software, then shipped it.

Two years ago I had no technical background. Since then I've built and launched production web apps on my own: auth, payments, backend, design, SEO, the lot. I'm looking for my first full-time role in tech.

Open to roles across tech, from support, IT and data to QA and engineering. Remote, or on site in Michigan.

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DaQuan Louden, smiling, in a dark sweater.

Work

Guppy Fitness

A workout tracker for the web

Live, taking payments

Build a workout or import one from a TikTok, Instagram or YouTube video, log every set in seconds, and watch your training add up. I designed and built the whole thing: the marketing site, the app, the backend and the billing.

What I built

  • The web app: workouts, logging, progressions and progress history, with account data export and deletion.
  • A video import pipeline that turns a public workout video into an editable workout, with jobs you can cancel and resume.
  • Subscriptions with Stripe through RevenueCat Web Billing, and sign-in with Clerk.
  • Ten free search-driven tools (calisthenics level test, pull-up readiness check, home workout generator, calculators) plus a blog, Markdown versions of every page and an llms.txt for AI search.

Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind, Convex, Clerk, Stripe, RevenueCat, Vercel.

guppyfitness.com

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The web app in seventy seconds: import a workout from a link, log a session with a new best, quick-log a set, then eight weeks of progress.

Bloomin

Goal-based savings that lock your money until you reach the goal

Design stage, waitlist open

For people who keep touching their savings before they reach the goal. You pick what you're saving for, contribute toward it, and either finish or pay to quit early. The product concept, the app flow and the marketing site are mine.

What I built

  • A clickable prototype of the full app flow: onboarding, goals, locking, progress.
  • A Next.js marketing site with a waitlist, written to rank: organic search impressions grew to about 4,000 in its first few weeks.
  • The product design system, mascot direction and copy.

Next.js, TypeScript, Convex, Vercel.

bloominapp.com

bloominapp.com on a MacBook Air: 'Lock your money so you can't screw it up', with three app screens.

Side projects

Smaller things I built alongside the main products. They're free, none of them are for sale, and most of the source is public.

  • Guppy Vegan's social card: "Three plant-based meals a day, picked for you" beside the Guppy fish in a chef's hat.

    Guppy Vegan

    Live on the web, free

    A cooking companion to Guppy. The Guppy fish, now in a chef's hat, picks one plant-based breakfast, lunch and dinner every day from 115 recipes. You can search by name or ingredient, scale a recipe from 1 to 20 servings and step through it with the arrow keys. There's no account; saved recipes stay in your browser.

    Expo, React Native and react-native-web, TypeScript, Expo Router static export on Vercel.

  • ClipCat's social card: "Turn your raw takes into a video you can post." beside the ClipCat cat logo.

    ClipCat

    Live on Mac and Windows, free

    A video editor for talking-head recordings. Drop in raw takes and ClipCat transcribes them on your computer, then you cut the video by deleting words from the transcript. Your own Claude Code or Codex proposes cuts for retakes and silences, and nothing is cut until you accept it. It exports a captioned video in 16:9 and 9:16, with no account, watermark or export limit.

    Electron, React, TypeScript and Vite, with Swift helpers for on-device speech recognition and screen recording, whisper.cpp and ffmpeg. Next.js for the site.

  • Vidzilla's social card: the Vidzilla logo above "Save the video you're watching."

    Vidzilla

    Awaiting Chrome Web Store review

    A Chrome extension that finds the video playing on a page and saves it to your computer as a file, at the quality the site sent. It handles plain files, HLS and DASH streams, live recording and subtitles, and remuxes streams to MP4 without re-encoding, all inside the browser with no companion app. DRM-protected video is detected and never downloaded.

    TypeScript, Chrome Manifest V3, Mediabunny, Vitest.

  • SortDock's social card: "Sort downloads by type or filename" beside the app icon.

    SortDock

    Live on Mac and Windows, free

    A small Mac and Windows app that keeps Downloads tidy. You choose the folder it watches, where each file type goes and how long it waits, then let it ask before each move or sort on its own. Both installers download from the website.

    Electron, React and TypeScript for the Mac and Windows app, Next.js for the site.

  • WebToMarkdown's social card: "Web page in. Markdown out."

    WebToMarkdown

    Live on the Chrome Web Store

    A browser extension that copies the page you're on, documentation especially, as clean Markdown, with headings, lists, code blocks and tables intact. One click or Alt+Shift+M puts it on the clipboard, ready for notes or an AI chat. It runs in the browser; nothing is sent anywhere.

    TypeScript, Chrome Manifest V3.

  • The Blogr dashboard: counts of topics, articles, published posts and images for the Guppy workspace.

    Blogr

    Open source, runs locally

    The tool I use for SEO on my own products. It plans topics on a calendar, researches them, drafts long-form MDX articles with images, and publishes to a product's blog by webhook. Everything is saved on my machine; there's no account and no hosted database.

    Next.js, TypeScript, Zod, Vitest, Replicate, Firecrawl.

What I work with

Web
Next.js, React, TypeScript, JavaScript, Tailwind CSS, shadcn/ui
Backend
Convex, Supabase, Stripe, RevenueCat, Resend, Inngest, Cloudflare R2, Google Cloud
Shipping
Vercel, GitHub, PostHog, SEO and AI search
Working with AI
Claude, Codex, Cursor: agent workflows, reusable instructions, persistent project context

How I work

I ship end to end

Every product above was one person: idea, design, frontend, backend, payments, launch and the search pages that bring people in. I'm comfortable owning a feature from a rough idea to something a customer pays for.

I build with AI agents, deliberately

Most of my code is written with coding agents, and I've learned what makes them reliable: clear written specs, repo-level instructions, design tokens they can't drift from, and reviewing the output as if I'd written it. That's how a self-taught builder got to production quality in two years. I'm also working through freeCodeCamp's Certified Full Stack Developer curriculum, so that I can write and reason about the code myself, not only direct an agent.

I care how it feels

Fewer steps, fewer screens, plain language that says what a feature does and what happens next. I dislike interfaces that feel like unrelated parts bolted together, and I'll push for the simpler version.

Work history

Since 2024 I've run FollowUs AI, the one-person software company behind Guppy and Bloomin. Before that I spent eight years managing restaurants and doing high-volume sales. That's where I learned to run a floor on a bad night, train people, read a P&L and keep calling after the fiftieth no.

  1. Founder and Developer, FollowUs AI2024 to present
  2. Assistant Manager, Tavern Hospitality Group2023 to 2024
  3. General Manager, Lefty's Cheesesteaks2021 to 2023
  4. Pre-Sales Representative, EverQuote2020 to 2021
  5. Assistant Manager, Taco Bell2017 to 2020

Get in touch

If you're hiring in tech and think I could be a fit, I'd like to hear about it. I reply the same day.

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