Building the tools we need to exist.
The ones nobody was building right, so I built them with Claude: a Mac app that tames Gmail without touching a server, an open-source UI for the issue tracker coding agents use, and seven sites and apps for businesses and friends — three of them now changed by their owners with Claude Desktop. No web guy required. This is the showcase.
Brendan Patterson · AppStart LLC
- Built with Claude
- Handed to the owner
- Nobody waits on the web guy
- Tools we need to exist
Tame your inbox.
Keep what matters.
A privacy-first Mac app that finds every subscription in your Gmail, unsubscribes where senders honor one-click, and files the rest — all on your Mac, with no server in the middle.
- Runs on your MacYour mail is read and sorted on your machine.
- No server, no accountNothing is uploaded. Nothing is deleted.
- Free in early accessGmail and Google Workspace today; Outlook next.
Tauri 2 · Rust · React · TypeScript · Gmail API
Fire Your Web Guy.
(That’s me. On purpose.)
A website shouldn’t need its builder on call. Every site I build now ships with a setup kit so the owner’s own AI agent can run it, change it and explain it back to them.
- Step 1
Build it with Claude
I build the site or app the normal way — with Claude Code doing the typing, tests and deploys gated so nothing sloppy reaches production.
- Step 2
Package it for the owner's agent
My agent writes a setup kit for that exact repository: install the tools, sign in, clone, verify, open a local preview. Setup never deploys.
- Step 3
The owner ships changes
They hand the kit to Claude Desktop on their own computer, then just describe changes. Preview, review, publish. I'm the last resort, not the help desk.
Three owners already did it.
- Live changes
Vault Sports Box
Live changes to vaultsportsbox.com, made by the owner's team with Claude Desktop.
Claude Desktop · 2026 - Live changes
The Atlantians
Live changes to atlantians.fun, made by the group with Claude Desktop.
Claude Desktop · 2026 - Local changes
Acting Studio Chicago
Changes to a local copy of actingstudiochicago.com, made by the owner with Claude Desktop. Production cutover is next.
Claude Desktop · 2026
Everything shipped in the last twelve months.
Eleven projects, peeled straight off the lid. The client sites each wear their hand-off status; the owner-run ones carry the seal.
- LiveProductEmailTamer
Tame your inbox. Keep what matters.
- Owner-runClient siteVault Sports Box
A bike-case storefront that machines can read.
- Owner-run locallyClient siteActing Studio Chicago
A decade-old PHP site, rebuilt underneath.
- Live
Client siteDr. Jennifer RomesserA psychology practice's site, in her own accounts.
- Owner-runClient siteThe Atlantians
A guild hall for a tabletop RPG group.
- In progress
Client siteTailgateGame-day coordination for Notre Dame tailgates.
- In progressNext MoveClient site
One concrete strategy for the stuck moment.
- Coming soon523Client site
Large-print, plain-English retirement guidance.
- Live
Open sourceBead Me Up, ScottyA visual UI for Beads, the issue tracker for coding agents.
- Live
ProductCiderPressTurn voice memos into living knowledge.
- Live
MethodologyFire Your Web GuySix steps, one AI agent, zero web guys.
Bead Me Up, Scotty.
Free and open source: a local web UI for Beads, Steve Yegge's graph-based issue tracker for AI coding agents. Board, detail drawer, dependency graph and focus view, writing changes straight back to bd.
- Stars
- 158
- Forks
- 51
- Contributors
- 11
- Open issues
- 21
GitHub, 26 Oct 2026 · 4 months, 9 days after the first commit on 17 Jun 2026
brew install brendan-appstart/tap/bead-me-up-scotty
scotty- projects shipped11in the last twelve months
- commits750+across twenty repositories
- outside contributors6to Bead Me Up, Scotty
- owners shipping their own changes3with Claude Desktop
- setup kits delivered9Fire Your Web Guy, October 2026
Counted from the repositories on 9 October 2026. Rounded down.
Hi, I’m the web guy.
I’m Brendan Patterson. Appstart is my studio — one person, a Mac, and Claude Code open all day. I build the tools I needed someone to build right: a Mac app that keeps your mail on your machine, an open-source UI for the tracker my coding agents live in, and websites for businesses and friends who were tired of waiting on their web guy.
Everything on this page was built in the last year. The part I care most about isn’t the building — it’s what happens after: the owner opens Claude Desktop, describes a change, checks the preview, and ships it. Three of them already do. That’s the whole idea behind Fire Your Web Guy.
Want a site you can run yourself?
I build it with Claude, hand you the setup kit, and stick around as the last resort — not the bottleneck. Products, websites, the occasional iPhone app.