Schmidt

Projects

Still building.

Twenty-two years in and the interesting problems are still the ones nobody has solved yet. Advice ages badly if you stop shipping, so I keep one real thing in build at all times.

Benchside
Flagship In build

Benchside

A family-first hockey management platform. One schedule, one ledger, one household — even when that household spans two homes and three clubs.

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Open Ice
Design system Shipped

Open Ice

The design language behind Benchside, and behind this site. Generous whitespace, one accent used sparingly, and club colour that enters through a single token — a crest upload rethemes the product without moving an edge.

In use across two properties
Next
Reserved

Whatever's next

There is usually a second thing half-built. When it earns a name it lands here.

Benchside is running

In build, with demo data. Have a look at the family week view.

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Why any of this sits on a coaching site

Most of what I coach is judgement under constraint — what to cut, what to sequence, when the architecture decision is actually a commercial one. Building keeps that honest. It is hard to advise a founder on scope discipline in the morning and then spend the evening gold-plating your own side project.