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Daði Már.

I build useful software: business tools, online shops, market monitors, and the AI agents and self-hosted systems that keep them running. Everything I’m building is collected here, along with what I can help you learn.

Currently working on

Open projects

Projects

Different problems. Purpose-built software.

Stack at a glance

Across the projects shown here.

Projects
61
Technologies
144
Connected services
127
MCP systems
12
Built-in agents
27

Business tools

Software for the work behind a business.

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Quoting & project management

Valan

Software for organizing contractor quotes and managing projects.

  • Renovation request marketplace
  • AI-assisted quote building
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Time tracking & workforce management

TimeMaker

Connecting recorded hours, time review and invoicing so the same work can move through one workflow.

Portfolio site and private systems dashboard

Personal hub and cockpit

A public portfolio site paired with a private dashboard that tracks every system the studio runs.

  • Systems registry
  • Health checks

B2B retailer portal with an MCP interface for AI agents

Kilja Wholesale Portal

A login-gated wholesale ordering portal for shops to buy at trade prices, separate from the public store's checkout.

  • MCP tools for other agents
  • Retailer account approval workflow

Operations tool

Press Support Ticket Assistant

A local ticketing tool that turns rough fault reports from a digital print press into clean, structured support cases.

  • Structured fault ticket database
  • Automatic translation of operator notes into English

Flight and hotel price tracking

Travel Tracker

A self-hosted price tracker and trip planner that watches flights and hotels and reuses saved data instead of re-querying constantly.

  • Database-first price tracking
  • Multi-city trip planning

Desktop file-conversion utility for print production

Bus Ticket Print Converter

Converts bus-ticket delivery spreadsheets into print-ready images and layout data for ticket printing.

  • Password-protected spreadsheet decryption
  • Automatic encoding repair for Icelandic text

Document extraction and royalty reporting tool

Funeral Service Music Register

Extracts songs and readings used at funeral services from PDF programs and compiles royalty usage reports.

  • Layout-aware PDF text extraction
  • Automated royalty report generation

Inventory tracking with a built-in voice AI assistant

Paper Stock Tracker

A print shop's paper inventory tracker, with a voice-driven AI assistant as the admin interface.

  • Voice controlled admin agent
  • Agent can edit its own interface and instructions

Legal guidance platform

Lagastig

An Icelandic public legal guidance site for school bullying and custody matters, paired with a lawyer case workspace.

  • Icelandic legal Q&A
  • Case intake and drafting workspace

Commerce & websites

Shops and sites built around a business.

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E-commerce

Blómadagur

An e-commerce web app for a flower store.

  • Scheduled reminder emails
  • Partner discount program

E-commerce storefront with print-on-demand and AI story writing

Kilja.is

An Icelandic online shop for personalised printed books and gifts, with an AI tool that writes a custom story for each order.

  • AI-generated personalised stories
  • Print-on-demand product integration

Personalised children's book text generator for an online shop

Story Writer

Generates a personalised short story, page by page, from a shopper's description for a print-on-demand book product.

  • Shopify app integration
  • Automated Icelandic proofreading

B2B ordering portal for a souvenir wholesaler

Souvenir Wholesale Platform

A bilingual ordering portal that replaced an email-only wholesale ordering workflow with a self-hosted web app.

  • Admin audit log
  • Per-customer catalog visibility

MCP & AI tools

Shared tools and services the other projects call on.

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Shared working memory

Brain

Project decisions and working knowledge that survive beyond a single AI session.

  • Agent memory
  • Hybrid search
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Generated output from the gateway

Images, video & voice

Media gateway

One shared service for generating images, video and speech across projects.

  • MCP tools
  • Media APIs
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Recipe knowledge & retrieval

RecipeBrain

Turning recipe source material into a structured, searchable catalogue for other tools.

  • Read-only MCP
  • Structured extraction

English-Icelandic translation and proofreading service

Translator

A private English to Icelandic translation and proofreading service shared by every other project in the studio.

  • MCP tools
  • Admin dashboard

Self-hosted AI inference server

Tiiny AI

A home-run GPU server providing chat, embedding, transcription, and text to speech models to other projects.

  • Self-hosted language model inference
  • Speech to text and multi-voice text to speech

AI chat agent for print-shop price quoting

Print Quote Agent

An AI chat agent that quotes print jobs accurately using a deterministic pricing engine.

  • Built-in AI agent
  • Deterministic pricing engine

Local, offline AI coding assistant and document summarizer

Local AI Coding & Summarization Setup

A locally hosted AI coding assistant and document summarizer that runs entirely on self-hosted models, no cloud API needed.

  • Local/offline AI coding assistant
  • Batch document summarization

Agents & automation

AI agents and workflows that carry work forward.

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Conversation & coordination

Companion

A conversational workspace for understanding project status and coordinating AI sessions.

  • Built-in agent
  • MCP channel bridge

Statistical forecasting bot for a football prediction league

Automated Prediction Agent

An automated competitor that forecasts football match scores and enters them into a prediction league like a human player.

  • Statistical (Poisson) forecasting model
  • Automated form submission as a normal user

Multi-agent coordination hub

Codex Agent Network

A local hub that lets several AI coding assistants register, claim tasks, and report progress to one coordinator.

  • Multi-agent task orchestration
  • MCP tool server

Self-hosted agent platform

Agent Operations Hub

A self-hosted dashboard for organizing and monitoring coding agents, deployed and wired into a personal agent workflow.

  • Central dashboard for multiple coding agents
  • Authenticated self-hosted deployment with no public sign-up

Trading & markets

Making sense of market information.

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Vakt

A personal dashboard that watches markets and a portfolio and explains what is happening, without ever trading.

  • Built-in AI agents
  • Scheduled monitoring and alerts
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Trading infrastructure

TradeEngine

A crypto trading engine that runs and measures many automated strategies and an AI trading agent, in paper mode.

  • Built-in AI agent
  • Automated strategy backtesting and live paper-trading

Autonomous crypto trading research system

Uruz

A replay-first research system that develops and tests short-horizon crypto trading rules before any real money is risked.

  • Backtesting and replay engine
  • Independent strategy cross-check bench

Portfolio monitor and semi-automated trading system

Fehu

A personal dashboard that watches an investment portfolio, scores holdings on quality and trend, and gates any trading behind strict rules.

  • MCP tool server
  • Built-in AI agent
  • Strategy backtesting lab

Market intelligence news and research service

Feed

Turns news, filings, and social chatter into one deduplicated event stream, read by both people and AI agents.

  • MCP tools for agent access to the event stream
  • Built-in AI research editor with scheduled publishing

Personal markets and portfolio dashboard

Trading Dashboard

A local dashboard that pulls together market data, a personal brokerage account, and tax reporting in one view.

  • Tax export
  • Real-time price alerts

Chat capture and AI summarization for Discord trading communities

Discord Capture

Captures scrolling Discord chat and turns it into structured daily trading summaries using local AI models.

  • Local AI summarization pipeline
  • Automatic chat and image capture

Landing page for an AI trading dashboard

Vela sales page

A bilingual landing page promoting an AI-assisted trading dashboard product called Vela.

  • Bilingual IS/EN toggle
  • Waitlist signup form

Writing & publishing

Turning knowledge into finished work.

Borrowed From Plants sample cover from Scribe
Sample cover from Scribe

Writing, evidence & production

Scribe

Keeping a manuscript, its source references and its revision history together as writing moves toward publication.

  • MCP tools
  • External AI authors

Illustrated children's book series with a print pipeline

Yule Lads Picture Books

A series of personalised picture books about Iceland's thirteen Yule Lads, built end to end with an AI art and print pipeline.

  • AI-generated illustrations
  • Automated print layout pipeline

Writing & publishing

Hvalfjordur Ecosystem Report Platform

A database-backed platform for producing and reviewing a long scientific baseline report on a fjord's marine ecosystem.

  • Scientific report generation
  • Team review & commenting workflow

Media & creative

Sound, voice and video, produced with code.

AI music production studio and label

Music Hub

A self-hosted hub that runs an AI record label: it writes lyrics, directs vocal style, and generates full songs end to end.

  • MCP tools for external agents
  • Built-in AI agent

Self-hosted video editor driven by AI agents

Cutroom

A browser-based video editor where AI agents and a human editor share the same timeline to produce finished narrated videos.

  • MCP tools for AI-driven editing
  • Automated narration and caption sync

YouTube channel publishing and upload automation

Video Publisher

A command-line tool that uploads and schedules videos to YouTube with full metadata, captions, and thumbnails.

  • Multi-channel publishing
  • Dry-run package validation

Text-to-speech research and narration voice casting

Icelandic Voice Casting

Research and a tested voice roster for natural-sounding Icelandic narration, now powering narration across other projects.

  • Voice research and evaluation
  • Narration pipeline for other projects

Print production tooling

Card Deck Print Imposition Tool

Generates randomized, balanced card decks and layout data for printing a physical card game.

  • Weighted random sampling
  • Deterministic, reproducible output

Health & everyday life

Useful systems for everyday routines.

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Fitness & daily routines

Health

Nutrition, workouts and body measurements brought into one daily workspace.

  • Built-in AI coach
  • Connected devices
Recipes interface showing a recipe, portion controls and cooking instructions
Recipe view from the application

A shared household kitchen

Recipes

A household recipe library connected to meal planning, shopping and cooking.

  • MCP tools
  • Built-in cooking assistant

Health evidence knowledge base

HealthResearch

A keyword-indexed knowledge base that traces nutrition claims back to real studies instead of repeating them blindly.

  • Automated evidence extraction
  • Citation verification pipeline

Self-hosted golf swing coaching

Golf Coach

A self-hosted coaching app that turns golf lesson videos into searchable, per-club, per-position lesson cards.

  • Video-derived lesson cards
  • Local-only swing video processing

Learning & teaching

Material for learning by building.

Introductory seminar on AI agent CLIs for office workers

AI Terminal Course

An in-person course teaching office workers to use terminal-based AI agents like Claude Code safely and productively.

  • Bilingual course materials
  • Starter project kits

Home & infrastructure

The self-hosted platform and the projects around the house.

Self-hosted server platform and migration

Proxmox Homelab

A home Proxmox server hosting a growing set of apps, migrated off a paid cloud host to cut cost.

  • Git-driven app deploys
  • Automated nightly backups

Custom Linux desktop setup

Arch Linux Workstation

A hand-configured Arch Linux and Hyprland desktop machine used for development, with remote access still being worked out.

  • Wayland-native desktop environment
  • Remote access experimentation

Homelab application hosting

Self-Hosted App Platform

A self-managed Linux server that hosts several small web applications behind a single reverse proxy and secure tunnel.

  • Container-per-application isolation
  • Scriptable, file-based reverse proxy configuration

Secrets and password management

Self-Hosted Password Vault

A self-hosted, Bitwarden-compatible password vault that keeps credentials out of code and config files.

  • Self-hosted secrets store
  • CLI-based automated secret retrieval

3D printer calibration

K1 Max Print Tuning

A research backed, test driven process for tuning a Creality K1 Max 3D printer to stop stringing and under extrusion.

  • Print calibration workflow
  • Hardware spool brake design

Encrypted backup automation

Kopia Backup System

An automated, encrypted backup system covering all coding projects and AI assistant session history.

  • Scheduled encrypted snapshots
  • Deduplicated versioned history

Cutting plan generator

Sheet Cutting Planner

Scripts that turn a set of odd shaped sheet metal plates into an optimised cutting plan for both a factory rip saw and manual home cuts.

  • Layout optimisation
  • Visual cut sequence export

Cutting layout optimizer

Aluminium Plate Cutter

A tool that lays out custom aluminum plate cuts to minimize waste and produce a printable cut sheet.

  • Automated plate-packing optimizer
  • Printable PDF cut sheets

Material planning tool

Cutting Stock Planner

A spreadsheet-driven tool that works out how to cut stock-length bars into the exact pieces a build needs with minimum waste.

  • Waste-minimizing cut pattern calculation
  • Printable, categorized cutting plan

Shared hosting platform for small apps

Multi-Site Webserver

A lightweight self-hosted webserver that lets small personal web apps register themselves and go live under one shared frontpage.

  • Self-service site registration
  • Automated frontpage generation

Self-hosted AI infrastructure

Home AI Inference Server

A home-built server that runs language models and image and video generation privately, reachable through a secure tunnel.

  • Local language model inference
  • AI video generation

Home network DNS filtering

Network Ad Blocking

A small, scripted container that blocks ads and trackers for every device on the home network.

  • Network-wide ad blocking
  • Scripted, repeatable deployment

Games & fun

Leagues, games and servers for friends.

Live scoring for season-long golf leagues

Golf League

A mobile-first app for running friend-group golf leagues, with live hole-by-hole scoring and real-time leaderboards.

  • Real-time WebSocket leaderboards
  • Configurable scoring engine

Self-hosted game server

Friends Valheim Server

An always-on Valheim server for a friend group, deployed and kept updated on a home server stack.

  • Automated world backups
  • Public status page

Season-long score prediction web app

Football Prediction League Platform

A web app that runs a season-long football score prediction league, replacing a manual spreadsheet.

  • Automated scoring and live standings
  • Deadline reminder emails

Skills & approach

A practical CV, through the work.

Web applications

Interfaces and the application logic behind them, from business tools and dashboards to household apps.

Next.js · React · TypeScript · Tailwind CSS

Backends & APIs

Services that connect interfaces, data and outside systems into something that works together.

Python · FastAPI · Flask · Node.js · Express

Data & databases

Modelling application data, time series and search, and turning raw input into useful views.

PostgreSQL · TimescaleDB · SQLite · Prisma

AI agents & MCP

Giving AI models real tools: MCP servers, embedded agents and shared memory that other projects call on.

Brain · Media gateway · Scribe · Translator

Business integrations

Connecting everyday work to the systems a business already runs on, from accounting to storefronts.

Business Central AL · Shopify · Microsoft Entra

Market systems

Monitoring, signals and paper trading, built to inform decisions and test strategies safely.

Vakt · Uruz · Fehu · TradeEngine

Media pipelines

Narration, music, images and video produced and assembled with code.

ffmpeg · Text to speech · Image generation

Print & production

Turning designs and data into print ready output: imposition, labels, books and conversions.

InDesign scripting · Python · Print workflows

Self-hosting & operations

Running the whole stack at home: containers, deployment, secure tunnels, secrets and backups.

Docker · Proxmox · Coolify · Cloudflare Tunnel · Kopia

Courses I can teach

Practical learning, through making.

Hands-on courses drawn from the projects above. The first is in development; the others are outlines that can be shaped around a group.

AI at work

From the chat box to an AI agent

For people who only use chat apps. Learn what a terminal agent can do, how to limit its access safely, and how to use it for documents, spreadsheets, web pages and design tasks.

In development · Eleven part seminar outline

AI & building

From an idea to a working prototype

Use AI as a building partner: define a small project, break it into steps, and develop a first version you can test and improve.

Draft course outline · AI assisted development

Tools for AI

Give your AI real tools with MCP

What the Model Context Protocol is, why it matters, and how to build a small server that lets an agent search, write and act on your own data.

Draft course outline · Agents & integrations

Commerce

Build and run a small online shop

Set up a storefront, connect print on demand and product content, and automate the repeated work around publishing and orders.

Draft course outline · E-commerce

Self-hosting

Run your own stack

Host your own apps at home or on a small server: containers, deployment from git, secure public access, a password vault and backups you can trust.

Draft course outline · Infrastructure