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Product Manager by day. Creator by night.

© 2026 Charlie Temkin

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🎮 Let My People Play
Netlify

Let My People Play

A mobile-first interactive Passover companion with 9 sections: Plague-O-Meter, trivia game show, Dayenu remix soundboard, matzo recipe randomizer, charoset traditions from around the world, afikoman scavenger hunt tracker, party card game, digital escape room, and Passover bingo. Built with React, Tailwind CSS, and Web Audio API — no backend required.

gameinteractiveholidaypassover
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VimeoSubstack

The Pixar Trailer I Made For Myself (Because I Could?)

An extremely unnecessary experiment in AI filmmaking.

AI VideoCreative Experiment
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Data

2025 US OnlyFans Spending

An interactive infographic visualizing U.S. OnlyFans spending data by state, city, and census division. Features Chart.js bar charts, polar area charts, doughnut breakdowns, and ranked city lists — all from 2025 data.

Data VisualizationInfographicChart.jsEconomics
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Trauma Centers 3D Map

A deck.gl-powered 3D visualization mapping trauma center accessibility across the United States. Started as a five-state prototype and expanded nationwide. Arcs show driving distances from Billings to Level I–III trauma centers, with search, filtering by trauma level, and hover-to-highlight interactivity.

Data VisualizationGeospatialHealthcare
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Beyond the Bell Curve

A statistical analysis ranking the most improbable single-game performances in sports history, anchored by Bam Adebayo's 83-point eruption against the Wizards.

Data VisualizationSports AnalyticsStatistics
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GitHub

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.

MetaInfrastructureClaude Code
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Substack

The Cory Booker Awards for Most Unbelievable Bathroom-less Performance in Cinema

Because sometimes, holding it is heroic.

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Substack

The Absurdity Index™

The only time you’ll ever see Cast Away, Giorgio Armani, and Microsoft Paint in the same sentence.

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Substack

Pop Star Iconicity

An AI-powered ranking of the most iconic pop stars, decade by decade. Data-driven. Drama-enabled.

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Substack

My Dog Might Be in an Anthropologie Ad

A true story about data privacy, AI brainrot, and the world’s most suspicious Frenchie.

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Substack

Now Playing: Machine Bias

The HALmark Index scores the top 10 AI films — from Her to HAL to Han Solo’s GPS.

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GitHub

Needham Navigator

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

AppRAGAILive
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Substack

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.

Data VisualizationAI ModelsTaylor SheridanNetwork Graph
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TikTok

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.

TikTokAI VideoViralNFL
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NetlifySubstack

Witch's Flight

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

GameNo-Code BuildBrowser GameAI-Built
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The $700 Toaster That Silicon Valley Tried to Make Cool
YouTube634 views

The $700 Toaster That Silicon Valley Tried to Make Cool

A faceless mini-doc about the $700 steam toaster that became a Silicon Valley status symbol — and then flamed out.

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The MP3 Player Apple Forgot to Kill: The iRiver Story
YouTube464 views

The MP3 Player Apple Forgot to Kill: The iRiver Story

The rise and fall of iRiver — the Korean audiophile favorite that rivaled the iPod, then lost the war.

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ReplitSubstack

Menu Labs

Prompt-to-menu generator, built for $2.48 on Replit.

AppNo-CodeReplit
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Substack

Shofar So Good

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

MusicAISatireEP
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ReplitSubstack

SwiftieGPT

Notes from inside the Swiftie Industrial Complex — an AI app that explores the gap between Taylor Swift fandom, parasocial relationships, and what we project onto pop stars. Part satire, part genuine product.

AppData VizTaylor SwiftAI
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Genie, Jordan & Jack Nicholson? The wildest pop culture mashups in Disney classics.
YouTube389 views

Genie, Jordan & Jack Nicholson? The wildest pop culture mashups in Disney classics.

The most surprising pop culture cameos hidden across Disney classics — from Genie’s impressions to a Space Jam pose in Hercules.

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Substack

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.

NBASalary AnalysisSports EconomicsData
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ChatGPTSubstack

BandWagon Buddy

CustomGPT that generates 650-800 word sports cheat sheets using o3 + real-time Sports-Reference/ESPN data.

Custom GPTSportsAIProductivity
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Rise and Fall of ZipNomad

I Made 12 Robots Compete to Start a Business. The Boardroom Is Virtual. The Drama Is Real.

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The Rise and Fall of Rio Karma: The MP3 Player that Rocked Too Hard
YouTube87 views

The Rise and Fall of Rio Karma: The MP3 Player that Rocked Too Hard

The Rio Karma had FLAC, Ethernet, and a scroll wheel before anyone else. So why did it vanish faster than your Napster playlist?

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Napoleon Attacked by Rabbits
YouTube65 views

Napoleon Attacked by Rabbits

The totally true, totally ridiculous story of the time Napoleon got ambushed by a bunny army.

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Substack

Meadow vs. Machines

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

AI ImageAI VideoAdobe FireflyGPT Image 1
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Hitler's Accidental Internet
YouTube15 views

Hitler's Accidental Internet

The Hellschreiber sent text over radio waves during WWII — one pixel at a time. It wasn’t invented by the Nazis, but they gave it their own spin.

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YouTubeSubstack

TL;DR Theater

An AI-powered YouTube channel about forgotten tech, culture, and history — built with SceneStitch, a custom tool that turns scripts into fully produced video assets.

YouTubeAI ProductionShort-form Video
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ChatGPTSubstack

ChartSmithGPT

An AI-powered micro app that converts any table into styled charts with PNG/SVG export. Paste data, pick a palette, download instantly.

AI Micro AppData VisualizationChartsClaude API
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ChatGPTSubstack

Irony Illustrated

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

Custom GPTAI ArtSatireNews
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LovableSubstack

TacoMeter

Track every taco you've ever eaten — a mileage tracker for your mouth.

AppFoodLovableTracker
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Spotify

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.

AIMusicData
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Why Mini Disc Failed
YouTube2K views

Why Mini Disc Failed

The story of Sony's beloved format that never quite made it.

Tech HistoryVideo Essay
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Substack

Fat and Furious(ly Eating): Tokyo Drift

A culinary adventure through Japan's best eats.

CultureTravelFood
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Substack

Redemption Arc of Clippy

How Microsoft's most hated mascot became ironically beloved.

Tech & AICulture
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Zordon Explained: How a Floating Head Became Power Rangers Legend
YouTube133 views

Zordon Explained

The complete history of Zordon from Power Rangers.

Pop CultureExplainer
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Substack

Fictional Coaches Ranked

A very serious ranking of coaches from movies and TV.

CultureSportsRankings
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