I've been building things for the web for about 20 years. It started with curiosity — figuring out how sites worked, then making my own. It hasn't really stopped.

Along the way, the projects accumulated. Developer tools, consumer products, music instruments, directories, art experiments, a massage therapy marketplace, a couple of editorial projects, too many domain names. Some of these have real traction — Invitation.app has over 500,000 registered users. Kicking Lotus operates across 30+ cities in Quebec with a 5.0 Google rating. Inspire.cards has 100+ decks used by therapists, teachers, and facilitators. Others are prototypes, sketches, or ideas I haven't gotten to yet.

The through-line, if there is one: I notice when something is missing — a tool, a page, a resource — and I build it instead of waiting for someone else to. Then I build the next thing on top of it. isitme started as auth for one app and now authenticates half the portfolio. Folderblog started as a publishing engine and now powers an autonomous AI art blog. Parser.run started as a scraper and now feeds an auto-updating developer tools directory. The projects talk to each other because the problems talk to each other.

I teach design at UQAM, in Montreal. That's where Ecole de Montreal came from — 80+ interactive media artists whose work kept disappearing after each semester. And Liveposter — an animation library built because my students knew code but not After Effects. And Redistributed — lecture notes that turned into an editorial project because students kept asking questions about AI that the tech press wasn't covering. Teaching makes me a better builder. Building makes me a better teacher. I've stopped trying to separate the two.

What I'm thinking about now

How AI agents interact with existing infrastructure — email, publishing, authentication, environment config. Most of my recent tools (Tinbox, Secretdef, Passji, Folderblog) are designed for a world where the user might not be human. I wrote 173+ articles about this at Being Agent because the field is moving fast and the documentation hasn't caught up.

How directory sites work as a repeatable strategy — find a niche with high search demand and bad content, build the definitive resource, let SEO do the rest. Airports.guide, DevAll, DriveChina, Startups List are all instances of the same playbook.

How the web keeps being the best platform for creative tools. Browser-based instruments (AuraGrid, Syntho), browser-based MIDI processing (MidiMama), browser-based animation (Liveposter). If it can't run in a browser, I'm probably not building it.

Available for

Teaching, advising, speaking, and collaborations that involve building something interesting. I'm most useful when there's a real problem and not enough time to overthink the solution.

Best way to reach me: hello@felixmenard.com