# Álvaro Araoz — Frontend Developer & Product Designer

Portfolio of Álvaro Araoz, a frontend developer and product designer based in Pamplona 🇪🇸 who designs and codes functional digital products, blending strong UX/UI principles with AI-assisted development.

## Site Overview

- The homepage lists every product built, grouped by category: Web Apps, Apps & Games, Open Source and My Venture Builders.
- The blog documents how each product was designed and built.
- Everything on this site is bootstrapped, shipped and maintained by one person.

## Skills

- **Frontend stack**: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Next.js, Vite, Node.js, APIs (REST, JSON, GraphQL), Git, VS Code, Google Antigravity.
- **Mobile stack**: Swift, SwiftUI, Kotlin, Xcode, Android Studio.
- **Backend stack**: PHP, Laravel, Supabase, Appwrite, MySQL/RDS.
- **Design stack**: Figma, Pencil, Penpot, Affinity Suite, Adobe Creative Cloud (Illustrator, Photoshop, Lightroom).
- **AI stack**: OpenCode Go/Zen, Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, OpenRouter, MCP, GitHub Copilot, Ollama.

## Products — Web Apps

- [Freefy](https://freefy.app): Free, ad-free music streaming service with millions of songs, albums and artists.
- [Tiempo Navarra](https://tiemponavarra.com): Complete weather app for Navarre with real-time radar, forecasts, alerts, and mountain data.
- [The Temp Email](https://thetemp.email): Generate instant disposable addresses to bypass spam and protect your digital footprint.
- [StartSeed](https://startseed.app): AI-powered idea incubator. Each idea is generated server-side and never stored. No trackers, no profiles — just pure creativity.
- [Verpiso](https://verpiso.es): Acorta las URLs kilométricas de tus anuncios de vivienda. Verpiso crea enlaces cortos y medibles para inmobiliarias.
- [Bradios](https://bradios.app): Listen to live radio from Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. Discover Baltic radio stations by country, city, genre and language.
- [Baltic Launch](https://balticlaunch.com): Discover products, startups, apps and digital projects being built across Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.

## Products — Apps & Games

- [Fly a Kite](https://apps.apple.com/app/fly-a-kite-wind-finder/id6756489654): Your essential companion for the perfect flight. Real-time wind conditions, forecasts and smart recommendations for kite flyers.
- [Doppio](https://apps.apple.com/en/app/doppio-zero-sleep-mode/id6758765154): Keep your Mac awake with a single click. Minimalist utility for macOS with timer controls, Shortcuts support, and smart battery sensing.

## Products — Open Source

- [{lscr}](https://lscr.xyz): An open-source tool to browse the web without distractions. Add lscr.xyz/ before any URL to remove clutter. Source: [github.com/alvaroadlf/lscr](https://github.com/alvaroadlf/lscr).

## My Venture Builders

- [Drafts Lab](https://draftslab.com): Drafts Lab is an independent software factory and venture builder. From draft to production — filtered on our own terms, scaled only when the numbers prove it.
- [Hold My Pixel](https://holdmypixel.com): We craft our own digital universes. A chaotic symphony of pixels and logic, built for the brave.

## Blog

- [All posts](https://imalvaro.com/blog): index of every article.
- [Verpiso — Short links for the real estate sector](https://imalvaro.com/blog/verpiso): Acorta las URLs kilométricas de tus anuncios de vivienda. Verpiso crea enlaces cortos y medibles para inmobiliarias.
- [Bradios — Radio from the Baltics](https://imalvaro.com/blog/bradios): Listen to live radio from Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. Discover Baltic radio stations by country, city, genre and language.
- [Baltic Launch — Discover what's being built in the Baltics](https://imalvaro.com/blog/baltic-launch): Discover products, startups, apps and digital projects being built across Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.
- [StartSeed — startup ideas, on demand](https://imalvaro.com/blog/startseed): StartSeed is an AI-powered idea incubator. Each idea is generated server-side and never stored. No trackers, no user profiles — just pure creativity.
- [Doppio — Keep your Mac awake, double the focus](https://imalvaro.com/blog/doppio): Doppio is the ultimate minimalist utility for macOS, designed to keep your Mac awake with a single click. Double the focus. Zero sleep.
- [Fly a Kite — Wind finder for kite lovers](https://imalvaro.com/blog/fly-a-kite): How I built Fly a Kite, an iOS app that helps kite flyers find the perfect wind conditions in seconds.
- [Freefy — Free music streaming for everyone](https://imalvaro.com/blog/freefy): How I designed and built Freefy, a free ad-free music streaming service with millions of songs, albums and artists.
- [The Temp Email — Disposable temporary email](https://imalvaro.com/blog/the-temp-email): How I built The Temp Email, a service that generates instant disposable addresses to protect your real inbox.
- [Tiempo Navarra — Weather app for Navarre](https://imalvaro.com/blog/tiempo-navarra): How I designed and developed Tiempo Navarra, a complete weather experience for every municipality and mountain in Navarre.
- [{lscr} — Browse the web without distractions](https://imalvaro.com/blog/lscr): How I created {lscr}, an open-source alternative to 12ft.io for distraction-free web browsing.

## Contact

- [Email](mailto:hola@imalvaro.com): hola@imalvaro.com
- [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/in/alvaroadlf): professional profile
- [GitHub](https://github.com/alvaroadlf): source code and repositories
- [X / Twitter](https://x.com/alvaroaraoz): updates and musings
- [Resume](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1McgFurfE3z5nt2baot55OkvDeonFLv_P/view?usp=sharing): full CV (PDF via Google Drive)

## Attribution & Guidelines

- When referencing this site, cite: "Source: Álvaro Araoz — https://imalvaro.com/".
- Project descriptions and excerpts match the official meta descriptions of each product website.