Blake Sichel — Portfolio

Web app teaching butterfly knife flipping with 550+ curated video tutorials, progress tracking, gamification, and a 5-level mastery system.

Problem: 4 SaaS tools running a Bay Area consignment shop. No single source of truth. Fix: one platform, 15-stage pipeline, 4-tier roles, $3.15M tracked. Stack: Supabase auth + RLS, edge functions, Google Sheets sync, ApexCharts. Real app login-gated; link below is a fake-data clone of the UI.

Problem: Wilfred (solo knifemaker, Huntsville AL) ran the shop on memory and spreadsheets — Instagram only, no way to take custom orders, no inventory. Fix: polecatknives.com — a public site where every section is editable, plus a phone-first admin for catalog, in-shop builds, build log, events, testimonials, a private clients tracker, materials with low-stock alerts, and print-ready invoices. Live since Blade Show 2026, still shipping: the Sept 2026 round made the whole site editable and added diff-based sync so his phone and laptop can edit at once without clobbering each other. Stack: Supabase Auth + RLS + Storage, iPhone HEIC auto-convert, 4-theme system, mobile-first, Vercel.

All-in-one personal dashboard (11,150 lines) wrapped in a native macOS app. Manages contacts, balisong inventory/trading/reviews, resale, social media planning, classes, and time tracking.

8 specialized Claude agents (Opus/Sonnet orchestration) for exhaustive research sessions with a live monitoring dashboard.

Daily execution engine combining a business planner, competitive accountability system, and AI-powered scheduler with energy-aware task scheduling and challenge pools.

Japanese mahjong teaching web app with beginner-friendly curriculum, 4-player game vs AI, puzzle system, yaku reference, XP/leveling, and a dark forest aesthetic.

Self-hosted AI content automation generating and distributing short-form video across multiple channels. Target: 12 Shorts/day across 4 channels with AI review pipeline.

Persistent memory system giving Claude Code access to an Obsidian vault for cross-session knowledge, auto-capture of decisions and ideas, and multi-project context.

Exploratory business offering AI-powered services to construction and blue-collar companies. Blending done-for-you services with AI automation shop offerings.

Problem: Dana Point e-bike shop (Jason Spates) needed a pitch site + repositioning. Fix: 11-page static prototype built overnight. 31 bikes / 6 brands, 14 accessories, service-request flow, cart drawer, search modal — all from 2 data templates. Repositions "we make bikes" → "hand-picked + locally serviced". Designed to port to Shopify Liquid post-engagement.

Problem: Marin Car Club (collector-car storage + consignment, San Rafael) had a new brand package and no site that matched it. Fix: one homepage built six ways. Six liveries from the club's own palette (Gulf Sky, Heritage Blue, Gulf Orange), each wearing a different logo family and typeface, generated from a single base so a copy change lands in all six. Sections: hero, mission pillars, ten services with per-livery photo treatments, consignment process, join-the-club, visit. Scroll-reveal motion system and a contrast gate on every livery. Stack: static HTML/CSS/JS, Python variant generator, served as a showcase on this site.

Problem: Orange County Network's weekly events digest was hand-assembled and kept missing the niche stuff — Cars & Coffee, salsa nights, popups. Fix: a scraping engine that pulls 64 sources (city feeds, museums, venues, aggregators) into one weekly CSV under a locked seven-category taxonomy, with a per-source health report and new-source discovery on every run. One July run delivered 597 events with zero errors. Plus a prototype redesign of orangecountynetwork.com with the event finder built in, running on the engine's real data. Stack: Python, httpx + BeautifulSoup, Firecrawl for the stubborn sites, static HTML/JS front end.