Things I’ve built
Twenty-six tools, built at Cocoon and free to use. Most of them started as a problem in a workshop I couldn’t solve with a slide — someone asks a question, and it turns out the honest answer is let me build you the thing.
Start with these three
if you only open oneTwenty-six is a lot to browse. If you want the shortest route to what I actually do, these are the ones I’d put in front of you.
Workflow Mapper
Describe your job in plain words and get a real process map back — triggers, handoffs, blockers — plus where AI could genuinely help and where it would just add noise.
SignBridge
Learn sign language with 3D hand demonstrations, webcam practice and text-to-sign translation. Free, open source, and it runs entirely in your browser.
Block Lab
A blocky 3D world where animal guides teach you prompting. You learn it by doing it — walking around, trying things, getting scored — instead of reading another listicle of tips.
All twenty-six
grouped by what they’re forEverything below is live on mycocoon.life. No account, no trial, no “book a demo” wall.
For work
8 toolsThe ones a team can use on a Tuesday without asking anyone’s permission.
Workflow Mapper AI
Your job, described in plain words, turned into a process map with the AI opportunities marked.
📊AI Readiness Score AI
15 questions, 4 minutes. A behavioural read calibrated for South and Southeast Asia, not a generic quiz.
🎯Use-Case Finder
Pick your department, answer three questions, get ranked use cases for your team — not a listicle.
📋AI Policy Draft
Eight questions and you have an editable AI usage policy: data rules, approved tools, disclosure, training.
💼AI Jobs Board
Live AI and ML roles across Sri Lanka, Singapore, Malaysia, the Middle East and remote. Refreshed daily.
🧭AI Tools Directory AI
1,600+ free, freemium and paid tools across 45+ categories — the most complete one we could build.
⚖️Compare Tools AI
Any two AI tools side by side: pricing, category, what each is best at, and which one fits your job.
📰AI News
Curated AI and tech news every morning — agents, automation, LLMs, startups. No doomscrolling.
For learning
9 toolsBuilt on the same bet: you remember what you played with, and you forget what you were shown.
Hand Garden AI
Seven scenes driven by your bare hands, plus a classroom mode where every hand in the room grows its own numbered flower.
✍️Prompt Builder AI
Build a prompt from six ingredients or start from a template, test it live, then paste it wherever you work.
🎨Creative Lab AI
Learn AI image generation hands-on. Build prompts from seven ingredients and watch real images appear as you go.
🛡️Scam Shield
Twelve real-feeling encounters — phishing texts, voice-clone calls, fake job offers, OTP tricks. Safe place to get caught.
🔍AI or Not
Eight rounds a day: real photo or AI image, human writing or machine? Learn the tells, build a streak.
🧱Block Lab AI
A blocky 3D world with animal guides. Master prompting by doing it rather than reading about it.
🛶River of Reasoning
A 3D logic puzzle: ferry AI tools, work assets and risks across in the right order, without losing your data.
🗣️Chatterbox AI
An AI learning RPG set in Kandy. Meet mentors, take missions, pick up real skills through play.
🏃The Challenge Run
A platformer where you collect AI skills as power-ups, across levels inspired by South and Southeast Asia.
For teaching
3 toolsThese exist because I needed them mid-workshop and the alternatives wanted a subscription.
Cocoon Live
Run the room: word clouds, exit tickets, a parking-lot Q&A and phones-vs-projector quizzes. Attendees just scan and join.
⏱️Workshop Timer
A big, readable countdown for activities and breaks. Built to be legible from the back of the room.
🎲Random Picker
Pick a name, a team or a turn without the awkward silence. Paste your list and let it choose.
Accessibility
3 toolsThe part of this work I care about most, and the part that gets the least attention.
SignBridge
Sign language with 3D hand demonstrations, webcam practice and text-to-sign translation. Free and open source.
♿A11y Widget
A free, open-source accessibility widget for any site — 33+ features including text-to-speech and a dyslexia font.
🖼️Alt Text Writer AI
Drop in an image, get alt text a blind person can actually use — and see why every AI draft still needs a human check.
For builders
3 toolsFor the people who want to know what’s under the bonnet before they trust it.
Micro LLM AI
Train a real language model in your browser and watch it learn — how it counts, guesses the next word, and gets things wrong.
🔤JSON Converter AI
Drop in a photo and watch it become cold, structured data. The gap between what you see and what a computer sees.
🏗️How Is It Built? AI
Describe any AI product and get a plausible build plan — stack, models, hosting, and how much is really just a wrapper.
How these actually get made
Most of them go from idea to live in a day or two. I build them the same way I teach people to work — with AI doing the heavy lifting and me deciding what’s worth keeping. That’s the whole argument, really: if I can’t ship with these tools, I’ve no business standing in front of a room telling anyone else to.
They’re free because the cost of running them is close to nothing, and because a paywall on a sign-language trainer would be a strange thing to build. What they cost me is time, and I get that back in the sessions.
Some are rough. A few were built for one workshop and left standing afterwards. If something breaks, it’s mine to fix — tell me and I will.