justaskjohnny.com
Johnny's digital workbench

Useful little builds for real life.

I'm Johnny. I like fixing things, tinkering with ideas, and turning everyday friction into tools I can actually use. This is where my work helpers, AI experiments, writing tools, and game prototypes live.

See the tools
About me

I build by noticing what keeps slowing me down.

Some people keep a junk drawer. I keep a growing shelf of apps and experiments. If a workflow feels clunky, I want to take it apart, understand it, and put it back together in a way that saves time the next time around.

These projects are personal, practical, and a little restless. They help with work calls, writing, AI experiments, customer intake, and small games that let me test ideas in a different way.

Fix it. Test it. Make it useful. That is the pattern behind most of what lands here.
Work Tools for tracking calls, reminders, references, and the details that are easy to lose during a busy day.
Ideas AI helpers, writing spaces, and experiments that make rough thoughts easier to shape into something usable.
Play Game prototypes and little worlds for exploring systems, building mechanics, and visual direction.

The app shelf.

Everything here started as a practical itch: something I wanted to track, clean up, test, write, automate, or understand better.

Work tracker

Clockwise

A call timer with reference reminders and custom call marks for keeping track of what happened and when.

Open Clockwise
Private AI

GPT 5.5

My private chat workspace for questions, drafts, project notes, files, and getting unstuck quickly.

Open GPT 5.5
Local business

AI Helper

A small-business assistant page for customer questions, appointment intake, and simple handoffs.

Open AI Helper
Writing

Story Editor

A paragraph-by-paragraph editing space for drafts, rewrites, and shaping a manuscript without losing the thread.

Open Story Editor
Chat experiment

Nova Chat

A different conversation surface for trying out how a focused assistant can feel and behave.

Open Nova Chat
Games

Cozy Builder

A playable experiment in building, simulation, and making little worlds feel pleasant to poke around in.

Open Cozy Builder
How it grows

A living shelf, not a finished portfolio.

The site changes as the tools change. A timer gets a notes field. A homepage becomes more personal. A game export gets another pass. The point is to keep improving the things that make work and life a little easier to handle.

Notice Find the repeated annoyance, missing note, or clunky step that keeps coming back.
Build Make a focused version that solves the real problem before making it fancy.
Tune Use it, fix the rough edges, and let the next practical need shape the next version.