Personal site · v01
Hi, I'm Tai.
I'm an engineer in Vietnam, gradually moving toward building products without locking myself into one domain. This site is my personal canvas: tech, AI, films, books, photography, games, and whatever I want to write down.
Selected work
Things I've built.
- 01shipped
Examino
White-label platform for English centers — Cambridge/IELTS mock tests, AI grading, and center operations in one place
2026 — present
Next.js · TypeScript · PostgreSQL
- 02shipped
PES Arena
Mobile PES tournament app — keeps running when the LAN party loses Wi-Fi
2025 — present
Flutter · Firebase · SQLite
- 03shipped
QuickSpend
Voice-first iOS expense tracker — fast logging, offline-first
2025
SwiftUI · Swift · iOS
- 04in progress
Shipdeck
A macOS app for a whole app portfolio in one window — git, App Store Connect and Claude Code side by side
2026 — present
SwiftUI · Swift · macOS
- 05in progress
Bạch Đằng
A narrative game about Vietnamese history, staged as water puppetry — chapter 1: the Battle of Bạch Đằng, 938
2026 — present
Godot 4.7 · GDScript · iOS
Journal
Latest posts.
- 01
Bạch Đằng: learning game dev with water puppets
My first game: the Battle of Bạch Đằng in 938, retold with water puppetry, woodblock-print colors and tides you have to read just right.
- 02
Shipdeck: one person, many apps
Jumping between products, I kept forgetting where each app stood and what was still pending. So I built Shipdeck — one window for the whole portfolio.
- 03
QuickSpend is finally actually quick
QuickSpend 3.0 adds a voice-first flow through Siri and Shortcuts — fast enough to log an expense without opening the app.
- 04
Hello world: Tai is calling
After years of quietly building, I finally put up a personal canvas: tech, AI, films, books, photos, games, and anything worth writing down.