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stevederico/README.md

Hi, I'm Steve 👋 I code every day.

📍 San Francisco | 🤖 Founder at Dottie AI | 📚 O'Reilly Author

X TypeScript React Node.js Rust JavaScript Swift Objective-C

Building agents with TS + Rust, daily driving Omarchy. Shipped 100+ apps, 5M+ downloads, 15+ years Obj-C/Swift.

Projects

🤖 Dottie

  • 🎙️ Dottie – Agent that controls your Mac, Voice-first, powered by local AI. 100% Free
  • 🤖 DotBot - AI agent engine, ultra-lean 11k LOC, 47 tools, 0 dependencies
  • 🖱️ Mac Use - Local Mac desktop control via MCP (AX + HID)
  • 💻 Dottie Local - Local model inference + DotBot harness. HTTP, MCP, CLI
  • 🖥️ DotOS – Generative operating system
  • 🗣️ Dottie Talk - Talk to your computer. Speak and dictate. Local STT + TTS via MCP, CLI, HTTP
  • 📅 Almanac - Agent-first calendar. Request one, subscribe the URL, agents write events
  • 📆 Dottie Calendar - Web calendar for Almanac. Day, week, month, year

🤝 Omarchy Contributor

🐧 Omarchy

  • 🐧 Dottie Omarchy - Two-way voice assistant for Omarchy. Grok duplex, local STT + TTS, desktop tools
  • 🗓️ Almanac for Omarchy - Calendar for Omarchy. Day, week, month, year. Local events + ICS feeds
  • ☑️ Todo Bar for Omarchy - Omarchy bar. Open todos from markdown
  • 🖥️ Omarchy Displays - Arrange monitors like macOS Displays
  • 🏋️ Omarchy Gym - Progressive Omarchy keybinding workouts
  • 👆 Omarchy Mac Trackpad - Mac-style trackpad for Omarchy on Intel T2 MacBooks
  • 📽️ Omarchy HDMI Room - Agent prompt to get Omarchy onto Crestron / room HDMI switchers
  • 🌌 Space Theme - Omarchy theme from the Space design system
  • 🔥 Burn Theme - Omarchy theme. Super Heavy night static fire
  • 🐛 Omarchy X Bot - Tag @omarchy on 𝕏 with a bug, get an AI-written GitHub issue. Cloudflare Workers, Grok, zero deps

𝕏 Apps

  • 🔨 HARDWORK - Resumes for 𝕏, what have you done this week?
  • 💡 𝕏 Improvements - Self-contained prototype of ideas for improving 𝕏
  • 📺 Watch X – Watch your 𝕏 feed on TV
  • 📖 TLDR-TV - Turn any article or book into a narrated video with synced transcript, captions, and chapter images

🏭 Agent Tooling

  • 🏗️ Detroit - Autonomous code factory — issues in, PR out
  • 🏭 factory.md - A Dockerfile for code factories — portable spec for autonomous coding agent standards
  • 🍣 Hon Maguro – Japanese tuna quality standards for software — fixed bars, binary pass/fail
  • 📝 AGENTS.md - Prompts for writing code with LLMs, Deno, Vite, React 19+
  • ⚓ Ahoy - Multi-agent terminal focus
  • 👁 Lookout - Click an element in your Vite app, type a note, Grok edits the source
  • 📂 Session Review - Browse, search, and analyze local Claude + Grok coding-agent sessions
  • 🎛️ Usage Dashboard - Usage for all your agents
  • 🔗 Mongo MCP - Connect agents to MongoDB
  • 🐑 herdr Plugins - herdr plugins: sidebar, git badge, explorer
  • 🗺️ Cartographer - create architecture diagrams agent skill
  • 📱 Silo - Local AI assistant for iOS, local inference, private, on-device
  • ⌨️ Local AI CLI - Two tiny CLIs: ask (local LLM) + transcribe (STT). llama.cpp + whisper.cpp, no cloud
  • 📲 FADriver iOS - Full Agent Driver. Let any agent drive iOS apps (Messages, Reminders, Maps) over WebSocket
  • 👀 YOLO Server - Zero-crate Rust HTTP service for YOLO26 detection + segmentation over ONNX Runtime
  • 🎬 video-understanding - Turn any video into full AI understanding — frames + transcript for your agent
  • 🎙️ video-transcribe-mac - Native macOS app to transcribe video/audio with xAI STT (BYOK) or local whisper
  • 🇺🇸 usa-bench – List of American AI companies building open-source + frontier models

⚡ Grok + Grok Bot

🧩 Agent Skills

  • 🤹 Skills - Agent Skills for Claude and other LLMs
  • 📆 What Did You Get Done - Agent skill: a week of git activity into a shareable report or weekly post
  • 🎵 Music Maker - Agent skill: idea to original track, prompt pack to mix
  • 🍏 App Store Review Bot - Agent skill for App Store pre-submit audits + rejection responses

🛹 Frameworks + Design

  • 🛹 Skateboard - React starter kit
  • 🪐 Space UI - Space design system. Product marketing UI as React components
  • 🚀 Starship Sim - Orbital Block 2 Starship sim. Three.js + Grok Imagine textures
  • 🔭 Spyglass - App Store screenshots and metadata manager

🍎 Mac Utilities

  • ✅ Todo Bar - Mac menu bar. Open todos from markdown
  • ⏱️ Clockwork - Menubar time tracker for macOS
  • 🐱 Snap Cat - Menu bar window snap for macOS (⌘←/→/↑/↓), mascot Snapu
  • 🗣️ Talk Keys - Tap Right Option to speak selected text. Hold Right Command to dictate. Mascot Talku
  • 📸 Clipboard Screenshot - Auto-copies macOS screenshots to clipboard and clears your Desktop

🎮 Games

  • 🎮 LoSV - Legend of Silicon Valley — Zelda-style startup adventure game
  • 🪐 Solar System Simulator - Interactive 3D solar system with a gravity-assist slingshot game
  • 🌫️ Hollowtide - First-person puzzle island. Three.js, TypeScript, WebAudio, all generated in code
  • 🗡️ Indie Quest - Top-down pixel adventure about shipping products and fighting churn
  • 🏟️ Baseball Tycoon - Baseball stadium management sim
  • 🍣 Sushi Rush - Frantic sushi bar kitchen game for one or two chefs
  • 🚕 Taxi Rush - Arcade taxi driving in the browser
  • 🎸 Rockstar Hero - Five-lane rhythm game with synthesized rock songs

📱 Apps

  • ✈️ Fly Now - All-in flight prices from SFO. Taxi + Flight, Leave Today
  • 🅿️ Spots – Airbnb-style parking marketplace
  • 🛍️ Ginza – Your autonomous personal shopper
  • 🎥 Stream Studio – Run your own streaming network
  • 🏐 Replay Assistant – Sports replay review
  • ✂️ Clipper – Instant video clips — clip, transcription, subtitles
  • 🏥 Care Companion – Guide patients through their care journey
  • 🚑 Care Marketplace – Compare healthcare prices
  • 🐷 Piglet – Baby tracking with charts and data visualization
  • ⚓ Anchor – Email marketing made simple
  • 📈 Roundtable – Startup investment game
  • 🔍 Domain-Checker - Private domain availability tool — no tracking, no logs
  • ⚾️ Scorecard - Keep score at baseball games
  • 🌭 FanFood - Order stadium concession food to your seat
  • 🎗️ HIVAware - Find HIV testing sites and get answers -- HIVAware.org
  • ❤️ BeatHF - Monitoring for Congestive Heart Failure Patients - Stanford Bio Buildathon
  • 🛟 Supporter – Automatic customer support
  • 📺 GenTube – Watch AI-generated videos
  • 🎟️ Clubs – Sell monthly memberships
  • 🎤 Podcaster – Live podcast assistant
  • 🐶 Friend – Make a friend
  • 💰 Sales – Track leads & deals
  • 🍎 Food Scanner – Watch what you eat
  • 🎲 Vegas Buddy – Happy hours & deals
  • 💖 Favs – Share your favorites
  • 🌲 Pine – Green energy tracker
  • 📦 SiteGen – Generate static sites
  • 🏠 HomeStay – Stay without fees
  • 🏫 SF Schools – Find & compare San Francisco schools on a map
  • 📍 Venue Directory – SF meetup rooms: map, list, and agent contact API (zero-crate Rust)
  • 📊 Stocks – Smart trading signals
  • 👉 More apps

🎓 Teaching + Consulting

  • 🎓 AppSchool – Learn to make apps, 500+ students taught
  • 💼 Consulting – My work for BMW, Amazon, Coca-Cola, MGM, and the NBA
Archived
  • 💬 Feedback Assistant – Drop-in feedback widget + dashboard, now part of Dottie Analytics
  • 📱 𝕏 Wallpaper – 𝕏 Profile QR for your phone wallpaper — great for meetups
  • 🚢 Skipper - Manage a team of coding agents
  • 📈 Growth Chart - growth rate tracking for GitHub release with dashboard and analytics
  • 🌐 v0 Proxy - Use v0's API with Claude Code
  • 🍕 Kiosk - Costco Food Court Kiosk
  • 📰 HNReaderPlus - Simple Hacker News reader for iOS
  • 🎯 GetFocused - Block distracting websites and get focused
  • 📸 Shoebox - Simple photo sharing app
  • 🎲 TabooPlus - What Word? — A simple Taboo game for iOS
  • 🎳 Skeeball-Scorer - Simple skeeball scoring app
  • 📝 SDNoteTaker - Simple markdown site for note taking
  • 🏗️ SDScaffoldKit - Scaffolding for Core Data models
  • ☁️ SDScaffoldSync - Create a cloud syncing mobile app in 3 minutes
  • 🔐 SDLoginKit - Login/Sign-Up ViewControllers for custom backends
  • 🧰 SDKit - Collection of useful iOS classes
  • 🌐 localizable.string - Localization string management
  • 📡 SDPinger - Keep your free Heroku dynos alive
  • 📋 SDBootstrapTemplates - Bootstrap starter templates
  • 🏃 RunLog - Running log built with Ruby
  • 🏃 RunLog iOS - Running log for iOS
  • 📊 SDStockKit - Stock market data kit
  • 🖼️ AppStoreGallery - App Store screenshot gallery

What I'm Doing

  • Build — AI agents, coding factories, and developer tools (Dottie, DotBot, Detroit)
  • Open source — agent skills, CLIs, MCP integrations, autonomous workflows
  • Omarchy — themes, plugins, and upstream PRs to omarchy + try-omarchy
  • Founder — Dottie AI. Speed is a core value
  • Community — SF builder scene (NSMeetup, 4,000+ members)

Recognition

  • O'Reilly Author - Introducing iOS — learn to make apps with zero experience
  • Featured Developer - 100+ apps, 5M+ downloads, featured by Apple
  • Fortune 500 clients - Amazon, BMW, Coca-Cola, MGM, NBA, Pandora, Rolls Royce, Salesforce
  • AppSchool Founder - Created AppSchool.com to teach 500+ students
  • NSMeetup Organizer - San Francisco's largest iOS meetup (4,000+ members)
  • UC Berkeley Guest Lecturer - iOS DeCal judge and mentor
  • Mentor - Teaches programming and career skills to underprivileged students
  • Public Speaker - "Idea to App Store", "Zero to Hero", "Project Bailout Stories"
  • Global Health Advocate - Built HIVAware app to locate testing sites and provide HIV/STD education

Media

Philosophy

"Just Keep Shipping." - I build apps that solve real problems. 100+ shipped and counting.

Random Facts

  • Never had a cup of coffee
  • Ran a 4:15 mile — captain of collegiate cross country and track
  • FIRST Robotics national runner-up
  • 100+ open-source repos
  • Top 1% of Nirvana listeners

Pinned Loading

  1. dottie-desktop-releases dottie-desktop-releases Public

    desktop voice assistant — control your computer with voice

    Swift 8 1

  2. silo silo Public

    a private ai assistant for iOS. Chat with LLMs with no tracking or censorship. Local and completely on-device, no internet required.

    C++ 9 6

  3. skateboard skateboard Public

    a react + rust starter with auth, stripe, and sqlite

    Rust 3

  4. detroit detroit Public

    Autonomous code factory, Issue in -> PR out

    Shell 6

  5. dotbot dotbot Public

    agent harness — multi-provider, streaming, 47 tools, autonomous tasks

    TypeScript 2

  6. factory-md factory-md Public

    A Dockerfile for code factories — a portable spec for autonomous coding agent standards

    JavaScript 1