Charlie Temkin
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BuildApps, GPTs & Games
  • How I Built This Site
  • Needham Navigator
  • Menu Labs
ThinkAnalysis, Rankings & Essays
  • I Rewrote My Thesis with AI
  • The Sheridan Verse
  • Fictional Coaches Ranked
CreateMusic, Video & Visual
  • I Accidentally Went Viral
  • TL;DR Theater
  • I Created a Pop Star
About

Product Manager by day. Creator by night.

© 2026 Charlie Temkin

Charlie Temkin — Product Manager and Creator
Product Leader · Creator · Builder

AI & Data. Nerd. Masshole. Tinkerer.

Product Manager by day. Mad scientist by night.

Featured Projects

Selected projects from the portfolio.

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AIMusic
Spotify

I Created a Pop Star

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MetaInfrastructure
GitHub

How I Built This Site

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NBASalary Analysis
Substack

I Rewrote My Thesis with AI

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TikTokAI Video
TikTok

I Accidentally Went Viral

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Build

Apps, GPTs & games — side projects mostly built with Claude Code, Replit, and Codex.

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This Site Is Also a Project

How I Built This Site

This portfolio — built with Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini. Deployed on Vercel with zero manual syntax. Every page, component, and CI workflow written prompt-by-prompt.

Needham Navigator

Needham Navigator

A RAG-powered AI assistant that helps Needham, MA residents navigate 70,000+ pages of municipal content — built for $11.

Irony Illustrated

Irony Illustrated

News headlines → dry New Yorker-style cartoon prompts → GPT Image 1 / Grok / Meta AI.

Witch's Flight

Witch's Flight

A fully playable browser game built from a vibe, a ChatGPT PRD, and zero lines of code written by hand.

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Think

Essays, rankings & data — thoughts on technology and culture.

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The NBA's Middle Class: Where Did the Money Go?

I Rewrote My Thesis with AI

My college thesis predicted that NBA salary inequality would grow — so I checked back in 10 years later to see if I was right.

The Sheridan Verse

The Sheridan Verse

I asked three AI models to recreate a classic Grantland piece for the Taylor Sheridan universe. Claude and Gemini showed up with working visualizations.

The Empirical Ranking of Fictional Coachessubstack

Fictional Coaches Ranked

A very serious ranking of coaches from movies and TV.

Fat and Furious(ly Eating): Tokyo Driftsubstack

Fat and Furious(ly Eating): Tokyo Drift

A culinary adventure through Japan's best eats.

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Create

Music, video & media — YouTube deep dives and short-form commentary.

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Meadow vs. The Machines

Meadow vs. Machines

What happens when you let 7 AI tools reimagine your dog? Two experiments. One deeply confused Frenchie.

Cutout Chronicles

I Accidentally Went Viral

AI-generated animated skits about sports, tech, and pop culture. 7.2M views, 6.4K followers, and 84K shares on TikTok.

Shofar So Good

Shofar So Good

An alternate reality where Kanye apologizes — told in 6 AI-generated tracks.

Juno Grey

I Created a Pop Star

A fully AI-generated pop star created from a data model that ranked 300+ real artists across four dimensions of cultural staying power.

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Experience

10+ years in product, marketing, and analytics


About

I'm a product manager with 10+ years of experience building and scaling enterprise software — from AI-powered contract intelligence platforms to mobile analytics tools used by Fortune 500 companies. Currently focused on AI-powered market and competitive intelligence, helping enterprise teams turn fragmented research into decision-ready insight.

I'm also a builder. Outside of work, I ship side projects — apps, videos, essays, and experiments that live at the intersection of technology and creativity. This portfolio is one of them, built from scratch by Claude Code (with some assists from Codex and Gemini). I've created an AI pop star, launched a RAG-powered civic AI assistant, and dabbled in TikTok virality with AI-animated skits. I learn best by making things.

When I'm not building something, I'm cooking, watching movies, following sports, or spending time with my wife and our dog while chasing the next interesting idea.

Open to meaningful consulting, volunteering, and interesting collaborations. .

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Currently into: Claude Code, Once Upon a Chef recipes, and watching as many Oscar nominees as possible.

Skills

OpenAI GPTClaudeGeminiPrompt EngineeringLLMsNLP
Product ManagementRoadmappingGo-to-MarketUser ResearchCompetitive AnalysisAgile / ScrumStakeholder ManagementOKRs & KPIsRequirements & PRDsAPIs & REST
Data AnalysisSQLTableauPower BIMicroStrategyGoogle AnalyticsA/B Testing
JiraConfluenceLinearNotionPendo
FigmaPhotoshopInDesignUI/UXVideo ProductionContent StrategyTechnical Writing

Education

The George Washington University

Bachelor of Arts in Economics, Minor in Business Administration

2012 – 2016

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