Hello.
I'm James Potter, a maker, founder and full-stack developer from the UK.
Right now I spend most of my time building Rephonic and Reletter.
The Next Web: Stretch is not your ordinary ride-sharing service
HuffPost: Want to limit your child's gaming time?
The Telegraph: Father and son create app that lets parents shut down their child's video consoles
CoinDesk: London startup seeks to unleash DIY bitcoin bots on the markets
The WSJ covered a heat map tool that I made as an intern at InboxQ
Reletter is a newsletter database. Use it to find, contact and get featured in 1m+ email newsletters. The eventual goal is to index every public newsletter on the web.
Board Around the World lets you pick a month to see the spots with the best conditions to go surfing, snowboarding and kitesurfing anywhere in the world.
Chard is a simple async/await background task queue for Django. One process, no threads, no other dependencies.
What are the most upvoted users of Hacker News commenting on? HN Leaders turns their comments into a Twitter-like feed.
I wrote an article exploring whether Hacker News is a good predictor of future tech trends.
This Podcast Does Not Exist was an AI-generated podcast experiment. All of the topics, content and episode summaries are automatically generated by GPT-3.
Rephonic is a podcast outreach database with estimated listeners, social reach and contacts across 2.5m+ podcasts.
Rate This Podcast lets you create a short, memorable link to read on-air that gets you more ratings and reviews for your podcast.
Wikiscope uses your current location to find Wikipedia articles tagged to the world around you and overlays them on to your phone's camera.
Featured by Apple in APAC.
Jackfruit is a bot for remote teams that adds an always-on video room to your Slack channels.
Acquired in November 2019.
I crossed the United States coast-to-coast in Georgia, a converted cargo van. The trip spanned 3400 miles across 11 states.
QTIME was a Wi-Fi connected HDMI cable and smartphone app that let parents set daily time limits for their kid's games console. I created it with my dad and we manufactured it in China.
Lokasi combines your Moves location history with Google Street View imagery to create an automatic visual diary.
Moves shut down so this is no longer online.
Stretch is a bit like Uber. Except that it's free, there is only one vehicle available (a limousine) and it could be literally anywhere in the United States at this moment.
The Limo Diaries was an expedition to drive a 28-foot Lincoln stretch limousine to all of the 'lower 48' contiguous US states.
It took us three months, 15000 miles of driving and three visits to a mechanic.
Siphon was an attempt to create a Heroku-like workflow for publishing React Native apps.
Tradewave was an algorithmic trading platform for cryptocurrencies that let you write Python trading strategies, backtest them and trade live. All in the browser.
I raised seed funding and scaled it to $1m+ monthly trading volume at its peak.
GuestSort was a viral guest list and event registration app for iPhone and iPad. Freelance project for a client.
Poster Montage was an iPad app that let you rotate, arrange and zoom your photos any way you like, to create poster-sized collages.
Color Scheme for iPhone lets you extract a palette of colours from any scene. Simply snap a picture or select an existing image from your gallery.
I spent the summer of 2011 interning at InboxQ, a Y Combinator company based in San Francisco.
I built a native iPhone app to bring their service to mobile. It was my first production app for iPhone.
Color Scheme for Android was my first attempt at building a native Android app and somehow it's still live and actually works.
It lets you extract a palette of colours from any scene. Simply snap a picture or select an existing image from your gallery. 40,000+ downloads.