Senior product design and engineering
I design and build product software end to end for teams that need senior hands on the work.
Selected work · designed, built, and operated
Featured · meetlucas.ai
A message-native AI product spanning consumer chat, dashboard, admin, backend, bridge services, integrations, agent runtime, and the operational layer that keeps it running.
Role
CTO · product design + engineering
Stack
TanStack Start · Hono · Bun · Prisma · Postgres · Inngest · Redis · Modal · Better Auth · Claude · GPT · Cloudflare
Open project
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A private-club product spanning native apps, public web, partner tools, admin, bookings, concierge, and subscriptions.
Expo · Next.js · Apollo GraphQL · Prisma · PlanetScale · Stripe · Clerk · Algolia · Sendbird · Inngest · DatoCMS
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An editorial hotel and chalet platform with membership access, live booking rules, payments, and admin tools.
TanStack Start · Convex · BaseHub · Stripe · Clerk · Mapbox · Cloudflare Images · PostHog · Plausible · Vercel
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A localized Sanity and Shopify storefront with polished product pages, cart logic, SEO, and lifecycle marketing.
Next.js · React · Sanity · Shopify Storefront · Hydrogen React · Tailwind · Vercel · PostHog · Resend · Mailchimp · Yotpo
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A concierge platform with brand site, invite funnel, iOS app, realtime backend, admin tools, memberships, and venue intelligence.
SwiftUI · TanStack Start · React · Convex · Clerk · Stripe · Anthropic · OpenAI · Mapbox · Google Places · Firecrawl · PostHog
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A business platform for portals, sales flows, BankID/Scrive signing, credit checks, subscriptions, SIMs, jobs, and reporting.
React · TanStack Router · tRPC · Hono · Prisma · Postgres · PgBoss · Scrive · BankID · Svea · Telia · Postmark · AWS · Railway
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About
Good to Be Back is Axel Talmet's product design and engineering studio. I work with a small number of teams at a time, taking responsibility for the interface, backend, launch details, and everything between.
Design + engineering
Brand, UX, frontend, backend, infrastructure, and launch polish from one accountable owner.
Product judgment
Sharper product decisions, architecture tradeoffs, codebase audits, and hiring support.
Hands-on delivery
Embedded delivery for defined projects, hard rebuilds, and launches that need momentum.
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