All projects
Palate
A trip planner where every stop cites something you actually did
Hackathon · Corgi × Merge × Photon overnight hackathon · Team of 3 · PRD, technical design, profile module, and integration · July 2026
Overview
Palate builds a taste profile from things a person already did (reservations, cancellations, calendar entries, and saved lists) and turns it into a trip where every stop cites a reason from that history. It was built with a team of 3 at the Corgi × Merge × Photon overnight hackathon in July 2026.
My role
I wrote 21 of the 26 commits. I wrote the PRD and the technical design with frozen contracts, scaffolded four modules (ingest, profile, chat, and planning) so each person could work on a separate branch, built the profile module, and ran the integration merges into the final build. Teammates finished the Gmail and Calendar ingest and built the iMessage webhook, bridge, and itinerary flow.
How the profile works
Every number in the profile is plain SQL over a table of visits, with no model involved, and each headline number carries evidence with the row counts behind it. Metrics include peak dining hour, preferred days, typical party size, price ceiling, revisit ratio, and aversions revealed by cancellations. The model only writes prose around those numbers, and a check guards that the prose matches them.
Status
There is no hosted demo. The repo includes a seeded demo that runs without credentials, an integration test suite, and a static submission page with a demo video.