❯ photon grove
projects
these are the apps and experiments behind a lot of the public work. photon grove is the release and consulting entity; bkonkle is where i share the build process, technical decisions, and the parts that are useful to follow.
storyverse
in development// interactive stories you play with friends
storyverse is the project i’ve been circling for a long time. it’s a platform for building and playing interactive adventures — the kind of game where you can actually say what you want to do and the world responds. under the hood it’s a cqrs event-sourced system running on dynamodb and eventbridge pipes, with a dash of natural-language interpretation so the parser feels more like a co-player than a crossword clue.
- ▸real-time play over websockets
- ▸event-sourced state with a dynamodb event log
- ▸eventbridge pipes fan events out to views and search indexes
- ▸natural-language intents for a more forgiving parser
fanstacks
early exploration// gentle tools for creators and the people who love their work
fanstacks is earlier and smaller. the shape i’m chasing is something that makes it easier for creators and their communities to build something together — without turning the experience into another engagement funnel. it’s more idea than product right now, but i’m letting it take shape in public so i don’t accidentally polish it in a drawer.
- ▸creator-first, not metrics-first
- ▸small, opinionated primitives over sprawling platforms
- ▸community at human scale
❯ how i’m working
a few operating principles
build what i’d want to use
every project on this list starts from a thing i wish existed. if i’m not the first honest user, the shape of the thing is probably wrong.
ship in the open
i’ll be writing about each of these as they go — the good days, the stuck days, and the ones where i quietly delete a weekend’s worth of code.
keep it small on purpose
i’m not trying to build a sprawling portfolio. a few projects, done with real care, are a lot more interesting to me than a dozen half-finished ideas.
❯ want to follow along?
come say hi, and i’ll keep you in the loop.
i post updates about the projects as they evolve — what’s working, what’s not, and the weird little details i find along the way. if that sounds like your kind of thing, the front door is open.