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Boken
One link that shows what you have actually worked on: your projects, your part in them and the proof, for people and AI agents.
- My role
- Founder, Product Designer and Builder
- Client
- Boken
- Scope
- Landing page, sign-up and onboarding · Profile builder with drag-to-arrange widgets
Founder. Product strategy, brand, UI/UX, motion and the front-end build with AI coding agents, from the first commit in April 2026 to the public launch in November 2026.
Overview
Boken is a profile people build from widgets: projects, experience, music, video, maps, recommendations and live social cards. The same page reads as a designed profile for people and as structured facts for AI agents.
Link pages show where you are, not what you did. Boken had to hold real work with its context (your role, the proof, the result) while staying as quick to set up as a link in bio, for designers, developers, musicians, photographers and writers alike.
From game to proof of work
Boken began as a profile with a creature that grew from visitor activity. It became a profile for proof of work: what you made, your part in it and what came of it.
Widgets for every kind of work
Projects, experience, recommendations, music, video, maps, tour dates, shops and live social cards, each with the same editor and look.
Made for people and agents
Every profile has an Agent view: the public facts in a clean format that ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity can read.
A faster start
Import a résumé or a portfolio link and Boken fills in what you do, a short bio, your links and your first widgets.
Launch and growth
A launch film, a giveaway campaign, persona profiles, lifecycle emails, Insights and a public changelog.
Design choices
Design and build in one loop: design the screens, build with AI coding agents, ship to staging every day and check on real phones before anything reaches production.
One widget system: a shared card shell, one main button style and one editor pattern, so learning one widget teaches them all. Light and Dark themes carry painted and moving backgrounds.
- Start from your work: a résumé or portfolio link fills the first widgets, so nobody starts from a blank page.
- One editor pattern and one main button across every widget.
- Human and Agent views of the same page: the facts you approve, in a format AI agents read cleanly.
- Fixes ship in batches, and every release is written up in plain words.
Results
- Launched publicly at boken.to in November 2026, first to friends and family.
- Designed and built solo with AI coding agents: 746 commits from the first commit in April 2026.
- A first profile can start from a résumé (PDF or Word) or a portfolio link; roles and schools import in 14 languages.
- Live Instagram, TikTok, X, Threads and Twitch cards keep followers and latest posts current.
- Shipped Insights, tour dates, 50 animal avatars and painted, gently moving backgrounds.
- Every release is logged in plain words on What’s new.
Figures come from the Boken repository and changelog as of 11 November 2026. Boken is the owner’s own product; no user or revenue numbers are claimed.
Project details
Read the process
Own product, designed and built end to end · April to November 2026
Design the idea
Shape screens, the brand and the mascot before the build starts.
Build with agents
Pair with Claude Code and Codex to build each feature with tests.
Ship to staging
Every change goes to staging first and is checked in the browser.
Check on real phones
Test the editor and profiles at phone width before release.
Release and write it up
Promote to production and log the change on What’s new.
Tools Used
Design
Figma
Rive
Screens, brand and the door mascot. Wonder, Remotion and Twombly were also used for design, the launch film and campaign stills.
Build
Claude Code
Codex
Next.js
React
TypeScript
Built with AI coding agents, Claude Code and Codex, on Next.js and React.
Platform
Supabase
Vercel
Resend
PostHog
GitHub
Accounts and data, hosting with staging and production, email, product analytics and source control.
Deliverables
- Landing page, sign-up and onboarding
- Profile builder with drag-to-arrange widgets
- Widgets for projects, experience, music, video, maps, tour dates and live social cards
- Résumé and portfolio-link import that fills a first profile
- Human and Agent views of every profile
- Insights for visits, clicks and sources
- Brand mark, door mascot, 50 animal avatars and painted backgrounds
- Launch film, giveaway campaign and character animation
- What’s new changelog, support inbox and lifecycle emails
