maurice kleine
i build small internet things
and sometimes they work
currently
lead ai engineer 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.
side quests
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mockly
fake chat screenshots for 17+ platforms. i can't believe this is legal
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fluncle
drum & bass bangers from another dimension. it has a radio, an api, and an ssh rave terminal
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hackadam
monthly meetup in amsterdam for indie makers building their own stuff
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nonobench
benchmark for how well llms solve nonogram puzzles. spoiler: not great
the graveyard
life is a series of experiments. some of them end, and that's fine, as long as you keep learning.
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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
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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
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onesixtyeight discontinued 2025–2026
functional mushroom blend for focus. turns out atoms are harder than bits
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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
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ride the floor up
ai raises the floor of what technology does for us. how to keep raising your own ceiling while it does
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the journey no longer matters
fifteen years of loving the craft of building software. what happens when the craft stops being the point
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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
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dude, where is the roi?
you followed every step of the ai hype cycle. so where is the return? on tinkering versus shipping