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Apps and websites. Made by Nathan Apffel.

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Now building: Lightfast for iPhone and iPad, coming to the App Store.

Built with:
React
TypeScript
Astro
Vite
Capacitor
PHP

What I make

From the first sketch to the live site

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Apps

Tools for the web, iPhone and iPad that do one job well.

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Websites

Fast, hand-built sites, designed and hosted from start to finish.

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Portfolio

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Lightfast

Color harmonies in real paint

The wheel of 172 measured watercolors with a triadic harmonyA river photo turned into a numbered paint mapMixing recipes for each color of the map

Built because no color wheel told me which paints to actually buy.

2026Year
React, TypeScriptBuilt with
App

Concept Transformer

Type a concept, press a move, grow a map of ideas

A lighthouse on a cliff branching into inversion, metaphor and defamiliarize results

Built to turn the creative techniques I use for concept art into buttons anyone can press.

2026Year
React, React FlowBuilt with
Website

Nathan Apffel Painting

A painting portfolio, rebuilt from WordPress

The home page of nathanapffelpainting.com

Rebuilt to replace a slow WordPress site that was hard to keep up.

2026Year
Astro, PHPBuilt with
Website

Nathan Apffel Photography

A film photography portfolio in four series

The home page of nathanapffelphotography.com

Rebuilt to replace WordPress and let the pictures take the whole screen.

2026Year
Astro, PHPBuilt with
Website

nathanapffel.xyz

One page that links everything I make

The top of nathanapffel.xyz

Built so one short address leads to everything else.

2026Year
Astro, PHPBuilt with