Personal operating system
Joe Manning
Building weird useful things.
Account manager, music maker, AI/tool builder, and project hoarder in recovery. This is the bench where the finished things, the useful drafts, and the odd parts in labeled jars all point back to one place.
Projects
Everything on the bench, in one grid
Products, apps, and games. Each card opens the real thing, or stays parked until there is something worth opening.
Sodanote
AI-forward music workspace for shaping songs, notes, references, and half-formed sparks.
Task Up Next
A task and calendar reshuffling assistant for days that refuse to follow the original plan.
Vibe Kit
Naming, positioning, and domain ideation for people with too many possible project names.
Absolute Cannons
Turn-based retro artillery where the wind shifts and every hit carves up the terrain.
DaniParkour
Third-person multiplayer parkour course. Fall once and the whole run starts over.
Bubble Cabinet
A bubble shooter built into a walnut tabletop arcade cabinet, drawn entirely in code.
About
Builder energy, with receipts
Less personal brand, more control room.
Joe Manning works around real estate ad tech and marketing systems, makes music, builds AI tools, and keeps a suspiciously active backlog of creative systems.
The through-line is practical invention: campaign ideas that need to ship, tools that reduce friction, songs that find their shape after midnight, and dad/coach energy applied to calendars, teams, and whatever needs organizing next.