Projects

A mix of startups, open source, and weekend experiments. I've started 150+ projects over the years. Here's a sample.

Cmdr

Launching 2026

AI-native file manager. Rename, search, and organize files with natural language. This is my current main project — I've been building it for about three months.

Rust

mtp-rs

Pure-Rust async MTP/PTP library, up to 4x faster than libmtp (biggest open-source lib). Built as part of Cmdr. I wrote a blog post about it too.

Rust Open source

CodeBerry

2015 – 2021

Online coding school. 200,000+ students, $1.8M raised, 50+ person team. I co-founded it and was CTO until I stepped down in 2021.

Startup EdTech

Photato

Free photography course with potatoes. A side project with love.

Education Photography

Other fun stuff

  • gitstrata — Paste a repo URL, get a stacked area chart of lines of code over time. No server, no signup, pretty lean.
  • node-mautic — Node.js client for the Mautic marketing automation API. 49 GitHub stars, which is a lot for me.
  • run-hippie-run — A game? Vibe coded before I knew what that meant.
  • bingo — A bingo game I made for my wedding in an hour or so.

Plus many more random projects on github.com/vdavid. I'm not great with putting these on GitHub, though.