Things that hold up under use.
Ken Goyarola is a maker and builder, the founder of KayGeeArtworks LLC, and a Replit Ambassador. He builds software and AI agent solutions alongside hand-crafted physical objects, with the same forge mindset.
Projects
- ScrapSmith — Photograph your scraps and let AI turn them into real, buildable projects.
- Ocean Text — An interactive typography toy where words drift like fish in a dim aquarium.
- Obsessed Waves — An ASCII ocean you can disturb: drop pellets and watch the ripples spread.
- Strudel — A generative audio-visual instrument: a new composition every time you press play.
- Memory Vault — Unify your scattered AI conversations into one searchable knowledge base.
Writing
- The Handmade Bronze Replit Pin — A commission to hand-fabricate bronze Replit lapel pins for Michele Catasta, built from a single low-res image of an unreleased logo. No vector file, no dimensions, no fabrication drawing.
- Hammering Ideas into Reality — Why I share the messy middle of every project, and how building in public compounds trust, feedback, and momentum for an independent maker.
- Lessons from the Replit Community — What the Replit community taught me about shipping: remove the friction and you change who gets to build in the first place.
- Crafting the Copper Aesthetic — A look at the original copper-on-iron design system behind kgaw.io: palette, type, and the one texture rule that kept it feeling forged, with a live preview of the archived build.