maurice kleine
i build small internet things
and sometimes they work
currently
ai engineering lead at waimakers, helping organizations put ai to work. before that: 14+ years of building software as an engineer, product owner, engineering manager, and founder.
that's the day job. everything below happens after dinner, and these days a fleet of coding agents does most of the typing. 468 prs in 23 days, and i didn't read a single one.
side quests
- mockly
fake chat screenshots for 17+ platforms. built it in a weekend, techcrunch wrote about it, 10k people use it. now i run it with jasper. i still can't believe this is legal
- fluncle
drum & bass bangers from another dimension. it has a radio, an api, and an ssh rave terminal
- nonobench
benchmark for how well llms solve nonogram puzzles. the top score went from 63% in february to 93% in september
the graveyard
life is a series of experiments. some of them end, and that's fine, as long as you keep learning.
logistics system sold 2013–2019
built at uni because my part-time job ran on spreadsheets and hope. sold it six years later. small exit, still proud
subthread dissolved 2023–2025
co-founded a studio, shipped dozens of ai products. chatbots, recruitment pipelines, consumer apps. learned how much ai can do for normal businesses
onesixtyeight discontinued 2025–2026
functional mushroom blend for focus. turns out atoms are harder than bits
spinup spun down 2025–2026
cloud agent runtime on firecracker microvms. joining waimakers was part of the deal, so it counts as an exit. probably
essays
- ride the floor up
ai raises the floor of what technology does for us. how to keep raising your own ceiling while it does
- the journey no longer matters
fifteen years of loving the craft of building software. what happens when the craft stops being the point
- my agents merged 468 prs in 23 days. i didn't read a single one of them.
how hyperspeed runs my coding agents overnight, and why planning and validation are the job now
- dude, where is the roi?
you followed every step of the ai hype cycle. so where is the return? on tinkering versus shipping
elsewhere
said out loud: ai tinkerers amsterdam · ai, je nieuwe collega (dutch) · demystifying ai · startremote (2020)