Hi, I'm Thomas.

I build companies and tools to support small businesses and educators.

Alongside my work at various startups, I consult founders and engineers on everything from setting up their first business to designing tech platforms.

Recent writings

Building a Plugin System for a React App Examplary is a new tool we're building to help teachers create better tests and exams. One of my philosophies about product development is that the... Changing My Mind on Tech Monopolies When John Oliver did a segment on Last Week Tonight about tech monopolies a few years ago, I was quite hesitant about the "break up big tech"... Force Multipliers Versus Form Factors Whenever people talk about GenAI as the 'next big thing', the lineage of previous 'big things' seems very variable on the speaker. Usually it's... Using Gemini in My Todo Flow Maybe it's taken too long, but I more and more am actually integrating little LLM tools into my daily workflows, other than coding and chat. This... Rendering a PDF Page to a JPEG in Node.js I had to implement a use case where I wanted to let users select a section of a page from a PDF to embed it as a 'clipping' in their text document. View all →

What I'm working on

Examplary - Better student assessments with AI. Street Art Cities - The world's largest street art community platform and app. Soep - The perfect recipe for social projects to connect communities. Infowijs - Communication tools used by 100s of Dutch schools. Ministry of Urban Culture - Promoting and supporting youth culture across Europe. Includable - Building tech plaforms for small businesses and developers. NearSt - Making products visible online to get more in-store customers.