Local-first AI
A question deserves a source.
GBC-AI
A sermon search for my church, with local transcription and answers linked back to the moment they came from.
Raymond Riter / Full-stack developer
Useful software.
A little curiosity.
I’m Raymond, a developer and dad in Medina, Ohio. I build local-first AI, tools for my family and church, and hands-on experiments that make complicated ideas click.
A few things to try
Interactive learning
Make the next move make sense.
Trace a sorting algorithm. Predict a swap. See why it works.
Start learningSelected work
Different questions. Same curiosity.
Open-source tools
Research you can build on.
Tesla OSS Suite
A connected workspace of Tesla tools, reproducible demos, and the decisions behind them.
Live on the course
The number the shot actually plays.
GolfRay
A GPS caddie you install and walk the course with, built to work with no signal and shipped with no map tiles at all — and why.
Research in progress: Ten-Proof Frontier Studio, ten formalized results explored as software, with what remains unproved clearly laid out.
Choose your starting point
Tell me what you wish worked better.
You do not need a polished specification or the right technical vocabulary. Start with the person, the problem, or the annoying part. I’ll help figure out whether a small app is worth trying.
01
I have an app idea
Tell me who it helps and what you wish it did. A rough message is enough to start.
Tell me the idea02
A workflow keeps getting in the way
Show me the repetitive, fragile, or expensive part. We can work backward from the real bottleneck.
Describe the bottleneck03
A local business needs a better site
I build honest website concepts for nearby businesses without inventing facts or publishing before approval.
See the local website studioOhio teacher or principal? Explore practical AI help for your school
Just checking the work? Browse every project
There’s a person behind the projects.
My wife, my son, my church, and the occasional batch of homemade beef jerky. A lot of the things I build start right here.
Notes from the build
All writingGolfRay: a caddie that ships with no map
An on-course GPS caddie built in fifty-nine verify-then-advance loops, and why the first public release makes zero map-tile requests: the imagery licenses would not allow the offline cache a golfer actually needs.
Twist: teaching the cube without a solver
An interactive tutorial for four solving methods where the correctness guarantee is a test, not a library — and where that test caught a published algorithm that could not actually solve its own case.
SortLab: teaching the decisions inside 18 sorting algorithms
An interactive lab that turns sorting algorithms into decisions you can predict, inspect, and test—not animations you simply watch.
The Tesla OSS suite: 85K words of research distilled into 8 repos
I have a Model Y on order. I also have an RTX 3090 and a habit of building tools out of frustration. The result: 8 dependency-ordered Tesla repos, 6 of them live on PyPI, 611 passing tests, and a workspace that any owner can run without a vehicle in hand.
$Stack I live in
- Languages
- Python
- TypeScript
- Kotlin
- Swift
- C#
- Go
- Web
- Next.js
- React
- Tailwind
- FastAPI
- Supabase
- Firebase
- AI / ML
- LM Studio
- Whisper
- ChromaDB
- YOLOv8
- XGBoost
- Coqui XTTS
- ComfyUI
- Hardware
- RTX 3090 / 24 GB
- Tailscale mesh
- Traeger pellet grill
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