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I've built a lot of projects, apps and tools over the years. Many have failed and some have succeeded, but I've learned a lot from each of them.

One of my earlier successes was a tool for learning, improving and generating code with AI called Refraction which was acquired by Twistag in 2023. Refraction was used by the world's most innovative companies, including Accenture, AKQA, Amazon, Bentley, Canva, CapGemini, Cisco, Experian, ExpressVPN, Google, H&M, Ikea, John Deere, Nespresso, PandaDoc, Qantas, Rakuten, Red Bull, Repl.it, Roblox, Softbank, Sega, Tiktok, Uber, Washington Post, Wix, Yahoo, Zoho and ZoomInfo and more.

I later built next-forge — a production-grade Turborepo template for Next.js apps. I released it for free in a market full of paid boilerplates and grew it to nearly 6,000 stars on GitHub, fostering a community of contributors and partners around it. It got some great coverage after Guillermo Rauch posted it. Vercel acquired next-forge in 2025 as part of my hiring.

I also made Orate — the AI toolkit for speech. It was a library for synthesizing speech, transcribing audio, converting voices and isolating audio. After growing it to around 400 stars on GitHub, Orate was merged into the Vercel AI SDK in 2025 as transcribe() and generateSpeech() functions.

I'm currently working on Ultracite, the AI-ready formatter that helps you write and generate code faster. It's effectively a zero-config Biome preset that provides a robust linting and formatting experience for your team and your AI integrations.

I'm also working on Kibo UI, a custom registry of composable, accessible and open source components designed for use with shadcn/ui.

I maintain some open source alternatives to existing tools, including Tersa, an open source alternative to Flora, and Eververse, an open source alternative to Productboard.

Projects | Hayden Bleasel