Charlie · computerchale
Difficult things, done.
Chemical engineer turned software engineer turned inventor. Always building.
Areas I build in
Selected Projects
OSINT Monitoring Platform
A Telegram intelligence platform: scraping, indexing, translating, and analysing channel activity at scale.
Built for Confidential · LIVE
UnderPinned
A mentoring platform connecting students with verified industry professionals. iOS, Android, and AI-powered session notes.
Built for UnderPinned · LIVE
Stori
An AI-powered journaling and mental wellbeing app with mood tracking, personalised insights, and a RAG-powered companion.
Built for Stori · LIVE
Brief Background
Charlie is a chemical engineer who moved into software and kept going. He builds systems across RF, data, and applied AI, usually where software meets the messy physical world.
He writes about what he builds: the trade-offs, the dead ends, and the parts that actually worked. This site collects the projects and the notes.
More about Charlie →Recent Writing
IOS · TECH — 2026-10-09
I Reverse Engineered a Popular iPad App With AI
I started with one IPA file and ended with a complete rebuild plan.
MOBILE · TECH — 2026-10-07
Don't Use React Native
The case for building two separate apps.
AI · TECH — 2026-10-06
How to Vibe Code
Don't set yourself up for failure.