Physical goods / with my dad
An Etsy shop for 3D-printed kids’ items
A hands-on experiment in product design, small-batch making, marketplace operations, and learning directly from customers.
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Things I’ve built, tested, and learned.
I’m Mike. This is where I keep notes on software, local AI, ShopSpark, and the other problems that pull me in.
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What I’m working on.
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What I learned running image-editing models on a $530 GPU
A hands-on investigation into FLUX.2 Klein, Qwen Image Edit, VRAM, prompt engineering, cost, and what affordable local AI can do.
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Building an Etsy shop with my dad
How a family 3D-printing project became a real shop—and showed us how much work surrounds the thing you make.
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ShopSpark
A working product, and the source of most of my recent questions about AI, product design, reliability, and cost.
Private commercial SaaSFounder & Product Engineer
ShopSpark
An AI-assisted workspace that turns product photos and seller notes into editable Etsy listing drafts, gallery media, bundles, videos, and seller-approved Etsy drafts.
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About Mike
I’m a maker. Software is one of the materials.
AI-assisted development lets me move from question to working system faster. That pace is exciting—and it makes the weak points elsewhere in the software lifecycle much easier to see.