Sigurd

Projects

Small tools and projects I've built for myself or because something was bothering me at the time.

Live

LitTrack Pro

A reading tracker with live leaderboards and physical bookmarks I designed myself. The kids are now actually choosing to read.

  • → Live class leaderboard and individual reading progress
  • → Physical bookmark rewards for hitting page tiers
  • → Dead-simple way for me to log finished books
  • → Built to scale — multi-class and multi-school ready
Python Django Tailwind daisyUI Render
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LitTrack Pro

Live

Started as a plain Excel sheet to track how much my students were actually reading (15 min every single day). Turned into a Django app with live leaderboards and real physical bookmarks I designed myself. The kids are now properly hooked — one of the girls even asked me “What have you done to us?!”

Features

  • → Live class leaderboard and individual reading progress
  • → Physical bookmark rewards for hitting page tiers
  • → Dead-simple way for me to log finished books
  • → Built to scale — multi-class and multi-school ready

What I learned

Expanding it for multiple schools meant real data-migration pain and the first version wasn’t mobile-friendly at all. I leaned hard on different AI models throughout — Grok-4 for the heavy architecture lifts and Claude for polishing. Deploying a live app on Render with real student data taught me a lot about production readiness.

Tech Stack

Python Django Tailwind daisyUI Render
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Live

Lovund Utleie

A self-serve gear rental shop on Lovund — grab a kayak or e-scooter from the shed, pay on your phone, and go. No booking, no staff, no hassle.

  • → Browse and rent bikes, e-scooters, SUP boards, kayaks and more — all from one simple shop
  • → Pay instantly on your phone (card, Vipps, Apple Pay, Google Pay)
  • → True self-serve: take gear from the shed, return it when you’re done — no staff required
  • → 24/7 access during the season, no reservations needed
TypeScript Node.js Tailwind daisyUI Stripe Render
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Lovund Utleie

Live

Lovund Utleie is the self-serve rental shop I built for outdoor gear on Lovund in Nordland. Customers just walk up to the shed at Hamnholmen, take whatever they need (bike, e-scooter, SUP board, kayak, drysuit…), pay quickly on their phone with card, Vipps, Apple Pay or Google Pay, and head off to explore. When they’re done they drop everything back in the shed. No booking system, no back-and-forth emails, no staff needed. The whole idea was to make it as frictionless as possible — “Kom som du er” (come as you are). Open 24/7 during the season, first-come-first-served, and the site basically gets out of the way so people can just enjoy the island.

Features

  • → Browse and rent bikes, e-scooters, SUP boards, kayaks and more — all from one simple shop
  • → Pay instantly on your phone (card, Vipps, Apple Pay, Google Pay)
  • → True self-serve: take gear from the shed, return it when you’re done — no staff required
  • → 24/7 access during the season, no reservations needed

What I learned

Integrating Stripe end-to-end (checkout sessions, webhooks, payment handling) was the biggest technical challenge and the most useful learning. Building for a real local business also forced me to focus on rock-solid error states, mobile-first design, and keeping the whole flow extremely simple for users who are literally standing outside in the rain.

Tech Stack

TypeScript Node.js Tailwind daisyUI Stripe Render
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In progress

Garden App

A mobile garden tracker I’m vibe-coding because my house is turning into a full-on plantation. First real Flutter app — Android + iOS.

  • → Track plants, planting dates, watering schedules and notes
  • → Native Android + iOS app built with Flutter
  • → Simple, clean interface that actually feels good to use in the garden
  • → Built from day one to grow into something bigger (maybe even income-generating later)
Flutter Dart Supabase Mobile

Garden App

In progress

My wife has gone full gardening mode and our house is starting to look like a jungle. My brother-in-law threw out the idea of “just make an app to organize it all” and the lightbulb went off: I can just vibe-code this shit! So I started building Garden App — my first proper mobile app that will work natively on both Android and iOS with Flutter. Right now it’s still very early and bare-bones, but the goal is a simple, useful tool to keep track of all the plants, planting dates, watering schedules, notes, harvests, the works. It’s pure vibe-coding so far — optimistic and probably a bit naive, but that’s half the fun.

Features

  • → Track plants, planting dates, watering schedules and notes
  • → Native Android + iOS app built with Flutter
  • → Simple, clean interface that actually feels good to use in the garden
  • → Built from day one to grow into something bigger (maybe even income-generating later)

What I learned

I went in super optimistic (“I can just vibe-code this”). Even with AI help, turning a vague idea into a real cross-platform mobile app is a much bigger project than I expected. First time doing proper Flutter/Dart and thinking about mobile-specific stuff like offline support, nice UI on small screens, etc. Good learning though.

Tech Stack

Flutter Dart Supabase Mobile