Building from the UK · usually after 11pm

Max.

I build marketplaces and useful AI tools. PCIFIC is the main one. Everything else orbits it.

Building

PCIFIC

A full-stack refurbished-tech marketplace I rebuilt while teaching myself to code. I started with Cursor, then kept going until I was building the marketplace, backend, AI tools, verification flows, and browser extension myself.

It now covers the whole journey from finding and listing a device to checking its identity and reviewing an eBay listing before you buy.

A terminal-native environment for running and managing multiple coding agents across different repositories. It started as a fork of Grok Build and became the project I am using to learn Rust while making the interface properly mine.

Persistent workspaces, a shared dashboard, quick chat peeks, PR and merge workflows, and agents that can inspect and message one another. I will probably open source it when I have had time to finish it.

Work

Late nights on the sofa. MacBook M5 Max, 128GB. Two tabby cats and a fox red Labrador called Autumn who have strong opinions about where they sit and zero interest in mine.

I think in systems and patterns. Taught myself to build entirely through doing. Four focused hours beats ten unfocused ones, which is a polite way of saying I am useless before 11pm.

GPT-5.6 for code. Fable for product thinking and the problems I cannot push through.

Max Models

Personal ratings. Click a model for the notes.

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Outside the screen

PCIFIC did not come from nowhere. Before the code there were small businesses, a first proper job, a lot of learning by doing, and people who showed me what a good company should feel like.

Writing

Contact

No forms. Just an email.

maxs@pcific.co.uk