Inkling
An AI journaling app. Write what's on your mind, reflect with an AI companion that asks one thoughtful question at a time, then turn the conversation into a polished article with a generated cover image or video.
Designer and developer building interfaces that feel spatial, systems that feel simple. Building for the future from the lit chamber — where human intent and machine intelligence converge.
An AI journaling app. Write what's on your mind, reflect with an AI companion that asks one thoughtful question at a time, then turn the conversation into a polished article with a generated cover image or video.
AI-powered Traditional Chinese Medicine. Tongue diagnosis, personalized herbal prescriptions, five-element wellness tracking, and expert TCM practitioner consultations — free to use.
A new angle on yourself. Auspice turns ancient Chinese BaZi wisdom into an AI system for exploring your personality, patterns, and life path — with Xuanyuan to reflect with.
One cinematic frame. A camera app for people who would rather make a single deliberate image than a hundred forgettable ones.
Every session, in its place. A local dashboard for Claude Code that sorts your sessions by what they need next and reopens any of them in one click.
Spatial by design, intentional by code. I build small, self-contained products where the interface carries as much of the idea as the model underneath does — AI journaling, Traditional Chinese Medicine, BaZi astrology, cinematic photography, developer tools. Each one starts from a question about how a person should feel using it, then works backward to the system that makes that feeling possible.
The through-line across all of them is translation: taking something dense — a practice, a tradition, a private thought — and giving it an interface simple enough to actually use. I work in English and Chinese, and several of these products exist because the idea only really works when it lives in both.
A designer and developer working at the intersection of interface design and applied AI. I design and build the products listed here end to end — interface, model integration, and infrastructure.
Five products: Inkling (AI journaling), Gēnova TCM (AI-powered Traditional Chinese Medicine), Auspice (BaZi astrology and personality), ImmeCam (cinematic photography), and Docket (a dashboard for Claude Code sessions). Each is independently deployed and publicly available. Paid products are sold by Auspice, Vancouver, Canada; see terms, refunds and privacy.
The name for how I work: a lit room where human intent and machine intelligence meet. Every product here is an attempt to make that meeting feel less like operating software and more like thinking with something.
Web interfaces with a strong emphasis on motion and spatial feel, large language model integration, and the deployment infrastructure that carries them — self-hosted services behind Cloudflare, plus managed platforms where they fit.
Email [email protected], or find me on GitHub and LinkedIn.
Interfaces that think with you — on why AI products should ask better questions instead of giving faster answers.
Email: [email protected]
GitHub: github.com/shanni
LinkedIn: in/shanniliu
Twitter: @shanni_talks
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